Moving glacially

Usage examples of inching.

Seventeen other aircraft were ahead of them, inching toward the runway One of the pilots came on the intercom occasionally to give the passengers updates on their expected takeoff time.

As Cord maneuvered the Blazer up close to the porch, inching it between her car and the steps, the headlights threw twin beams of light through the open door, illuminating the wet floor where the gusting wind had blown the rain across the porch and into the house.

She bent forward, inching, hoping she wouldn't fall and turn the table over.

Somehow she made her feet begin moving again, shuffling across the littered alley, painfully inching from safety to exposure.

A bass rumble of thunder announced the approach of more rain, and clouds began inching their purplish mass over the blaze of the setting sun.

I could hear no sound but the roar and crash of the river, and sense no movement but the faint line of the rays of the cloud covered sun inching higher up the canyon walls.

They ducked for cover then reemerged, inching their way along the ridge.

She knew she should speak up, announce her presence, and yet she felt herself inching quietly forward.

With the vigilance of a trained killer, he began inching downward, gun leveled.

The darkness of the ocean was inching higher up the transparent dome, a black curtain rising in reverse.

In the distance, across the endless flat expanse, a band of crimson was inching across the horizon.

The fifteen high-explosive, antitank AGM-114 Hellfire missiles still aboard strained against the compression, their copper liner cones and spring-detonation heads inching perilously inward.

Webb ran back to his sanctuary beyond the last elevator, again inching his body to the edge of the wall.

The rider had slipped a bow off of his shoulder and was inching his hand, ever so slowly, toward his quiver.

He fell flat against the wall, clutching his bleeding arm, and started inching his way back up the passage.