inch by inch

Example Sentences

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"The soulmate feeling here doesn't float above life; it is made, inch by inch, by life, in the way the pair meet those pressures," she says.

From BBC

Christopher clambered up onto the sill and, inch by inch, lifted the window higher.

From Literature

But inch by inch, we dragged it over to the ship.

From Literature

Inch by inch he restored Colombian territory.

From The Wall Street Journal

After each hole is drilled, a crane slowly lifts a 70-foot-long wire straw called a rebar cage and, inch by inch, lowers it into the hole.

From Los Angeles Times