What is "inched"

Usage examples of "inched".

He inched forward warily, fighting his own reluctant muscles, glancing to see if other bees were in the vicinity.

As he inched down, he came upon the first of the pitons he had driven in before, snapped a carabiner into the first and tied off a doubled line, threading and snapping in another at each piton, to shorten his fall, should he come off the face.

She stood patiently, cowlike, with no movement except when the line inched forward.

As he had learned, he leaned his weight over the thick yard until his feet were firmly in the footrope, pushing down and back, and arms clinging to the yard inched his way outward.

Friesians, I distantly remembered, were lavish milk producers, I inched a wincingly careful way round the vast throng of big animals until I came to a large docile-looking Friesian cow with a satisfied calf lying beside her.

Olds lowrider with no suspension, a sunscreen on the windshield, and an elaborate Virgin of Guadalupe decorating the trunk inched past us at .

A crow or some small predator must have taken the hand or a finger and dropped it near or in Potlicker Creek, and year after year the ring, finally off the bone, must have inched its way down to where Harry found it.

Dressed in what had become regulation clothes for Cappy, the improvised uniform of khaki gabardine slacks, white shirt, and a flight jacket, she inched the zipper closure up a JANET DAILEY little higher and stepped out of the operations building at Boiling Field to proceed to the DC-3 parked on the ramp, the passenger version of the Army cargo C-47.

With the huge Thalesian keeping him from tumbling in a steely clatter down the stairs, Sparhawk inched his way headfirst down the stairs until he could see out into the room beyond.

The men sweated, but inched onwards until the great stone was poised above the square timbers that spanned the three hulls.

He staggered back, clutching his heart in a tragicomic burlesque of a wounded man, then dropped to his knees and inched up to the side of her chair.

And, presently, when the flood tide began to flow and the eddy about the docks and the dry dock gates began, the Wabbler inched as if purposefully toward the place where the water burbled through flooding valves.

He lay on his stomach and gripped her ankles as she inched over the precipice.

As it gyred, a tiny figure detached itself from the leather harness on its back and, with great care, inched itself around the body and down to the talons.

The wagon inched forward, its headlights revealing that the snow beyond the gates and inside the target was full of ground sign, feet and tires.