Sentence examples for inch like a from inspiring English sources

"And I'm not talking about inch by inch, like a glacier," said Mr. Miller, who makes the case in a new book, "A Deficit of Decency". "I'm saying the thing got up and flew away". The idea that certain social issues produce immediate unthinking reactions comes through in other political research as well.

With his silver-grey hair and silver-grey eyes, his lofty height and patrician diffidence, he looked every inch like a man aching to be sitting at his favourite Mayfair eatery, but instead finding himself having to savour the uncertain offerings of some high street tandoori takeaway.

She grabbed front covers and column inches like a child in a sweetshop.

Mr. Mayne's stairs are a standard 11 inches, like a conventional fire stairwell.

She is driven to a house on an unassuming London street, her car inching like a hearse through the Stygian fog.

As the four become sexually and emotionally entangled, the puzzle of their devotion to a writer who declines their interest — declines, in fact, ever to appear — inches like a great Lovecraftian shadow over their lives.

They realize that a business start-up is a game of inches, like an NFL football game on any given Sunday.

Swaying their arms and rocking on their feet, they inch forward like a gentle train.

The goby uses its suctioning mouth and a sucker on its stomach to inch upward like a caterpillar.

Andy San Dimas (Drive actress and Bill and Ted enthusiast) would like a 26-inch ventriloquist doll.

The turret, the business end of the camera, is fitted with an optical glass viewer, an 8-inch lens and a 12-inch mirror, like a periscope's, that corrects the reversal of view made by the lens.