Sentence examples for or inch from inspiring English sources

The economist doesn't lock his doors or inch the car forward.

It is impossible to inspect every carton of fruit or inch of packing material that comes into the United States, and those shipments may contain destructive insects or fungus spores, which have no natural enemies in a North American environment.

(And in my semidefense: Be honest, New Yorkers — what's your base-line reaction to Jersey plates?) That doesn't mean that my friend didn't have a point, though: how much thought do we really put into the rather extraordinary number of identity signals that zoom by on highways or inch along in commuter traffic?

"To be on the safe side, I crawl on my knees or inch on my belly when I go outside for weather observations," she says.

Whether we measure temperature on the Celsius or Fahrenheit scales, or whether we use the meter or inch as a unit of length, are choices that ultimately hang on consensus among humans rather than facts about nature.

Floreano lists off a number of potential applications for edible robots, including food that can walk itself to hotter or colder locations or inch its way toward the human or animal it's looking to feed.

-Wavelengths are usually measured in meters, feet, centimeters or inches.

The difference between wet or dry in Plano can come down to feet, or inches.

And no one lost weight or inches around the waistline.

They reported their height in either centimetres or inches, their weight in either pounds or kilograms.

Information recorded on the delivery cards included infant sex, birth weight (in grams or pounds and ounces) (n = 230), length (in centimeters or inches) (n = 229), and head circumference (in centimeters or inches) (n = 181).