inch by inch
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Other characters participate in the recreation rebuilding the space inch by inch.
From Salon • Mar. 21, 2025
Progress is messy, halting and incremental, but it does happen — inch by inch, step by step, mile by mile.
From Washington Post • Feb. 7, 2023
You could vacuum it, shampoo it, run a comb through it or get on your hands and knees and scrub it with a sponge inch by inch, and it would never look anything but ragged.
From Los Angeles Times • May 18, 2022
Determined not to be denied again, she reeled in Redfern, inch by inch.
From BBC • Apr. 27, 2022
But inch by inch, we dragged it over to the ship.
From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman
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