inch by inch
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Inch by inch, the Tokhis reclaimed their lives.
From Washington Post • Sep. 6, 2022
Inch by inch, the supertanker turns until it is facing in the right direction.
From The Guardian • Aug. 3, 2018
Inch by inch the huge river of ice which we call a glacier creeps toward the sea, and here its projecting end is broken off by the action of the waves.
From Scientific American • Apr. 10, 2012
Inch by inch, row by row,/Gonna make this garden grow...
From New York Times • Apr. 21, 2010
Inch by inch the other two boats began to gain on Washington.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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