Sentence examples for inch until from inspiring English sources

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He grabbed the rod as it jumped around, reeling in the line inch by inch until a whitish blur appeared below the surface.

Their aim is to score a pushover try by forcing the opposition back inch by inch, until at last Ed Miliband cracks.

He slugged at McIlroy without giving an inch until the 12th, when an earlier three-stroke lead for the Englishman was finally nullified.

The "do" was concreted into place with hairspray, so it didn't shift an inch until the next appointment in seven days.

The company probed its way through, inch by inch, until the disposals expert arrived and declared the object to be a saucepan lid – "what we call a Le Creuset mine," John says.

And all the while he was fiddling with the table-top, lifting it inch by inch until the whole lot, plates, knives, forks, glasses, food, bottles, napkins, went cascading to the floor.

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A cult steadily grew around the Crooked Man 12-inches, until DFA picked them up this year.

As she writes about one figure's demise: "Quiet crept in, stealthy, taking its time, turning down the volume and unfurling the curtain, lowering it by inches, until the velvet hem teased the floor and the darkness seized his eyes".

The storm was a reality check for residents who had enjoyed two unusually mild months, the city's first snowless November on record, and a December with only 1.2 inches until Dec. 23.

While Black Friday is known for big sales on big TVs, there has been nothing above 65-inches until now.

The British played a smaller golf ball (1.62 inches in diameter) than the approved size in the U.S. (1.68 inches) until as late as 1990.

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