Sentence examples for inch downward from inspiring English sources

And though the economy has grown for each of the past two quarters, the unemployment rate has only just begun to inch downward.

The good news is that childhood obesity rates have begun to inch downward in some cities, including among poor children, the first positive sign in the obesity epidemic in years.

Before the market closed for the day, RIM share prices continued to inch downward until it reached (at time of writing) $21.52: RIM's lowest in five years.

By focusing so much attention on how many people are confined within this nation's state or federal prisons in a given year -- at best watching these figures inch downward at a glacial pace and, more usually, watching them ebb and flow at still unconscionable levels -- we have, perhaps, found ourselves unwitting players in a most insidious shell game that might be called "the Decarceration Dodge".

"They then tried an even more radical idea of using a rear-mounted modified Corvair transaxle coupled to an amazing torque shaft that is bent in a three-inch downward bow inside a tunnel that couples the entire drivetrain into one unit," Mr. Walters said.

The count keeps inching downward.

The number of these prosecutions inched downward as well.

Connected by rope, six of them inched downward.

"I want to die," she said as the hot box inched downward.

The car inched downward, and the ocean widened into a breathtaking vista.

The crime rate is skyrocketing, not inching downward, as it was in New York.