Sentence examples for inch close to from inspiring English sources

His golden glow has given way to a subtler iridescence, one that can only be appreciated if you inch close to the canvas.

On Friday, temperatures hit 100 in Little Rock, about 100 miles northeast of here, and were expected on Saturday to inch close to the 1934 record of 103 degrees for July 24.

"So much for Minerva," Rebecca thinks, and in that stoical shrug you catch the patented Tyler tone — with its seemingly infinite reserves of patient good humor — and inch close to Rebecca's predicament: what chance is there that people's lives will work out as planned when their Christian names won't obey orders?

The Ataribox continues to draw interest as we inch close to its release.

All of them have negative news shares in the 40percentt range, but some have positive news shares that inch close to double digits...After the private email server story broke, coverage of Mrs. Clinton escalated....in March the pattern changed abruptly, as Mrs. Clinton's share of the total news volume soared to 54 percent, while the other candidates faded into the news background.

Borrowers outside the EU might inch closer to membership.

On a rooftop bar you indeed inch closer to heaven.

But that gets Courtney only an inch closer to what he wants.

On Tuesday, the government appeared to inch closer to that goal.

And, of course, Giuliani and Hannity couldn't possibly inch closer to the president himself.

Developing new technology is incremental; little by little, you inch closer to the right answer.