How To Use by inches In A Sentence
- They told him a main artery had been missed by inches. The Sun
- My insides curl and shrivel, I am dying, slowly, by inches. A MEANS TO EVIL
- I am driving like a frigging maniac, weaving in and out of traffic, missing other cars by inches, getting irately honked at and flipped off as I whip up exit ramps and back onto the freeway, all in an effort to try and shake them before I reach my house. Late, Late at Night
- Up and after ordering some things towards my wife's going into the country, to the office, where I spent the morning upon my measuring rules very pleasantly till noon, and then comes Creed and he and I talked about mathematiques, and he tells me of a way found out by Mr. Jonas Moore which he calls duodecimal arithmetique, which is properly applied to measuring, where all is ordered by inches, which are 12 in a foot, which I have a mind to learn. Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 22: May/June 1663
- He escaped death by inches when a tree fell on his tent.
- And they say that the broken shards of glass missed his jugular vein by inches.
- they moved it by inches
- So we have been dragging in by inches our chairs and tables throughout the summer, and by no means look finished and furnished at this late moment, the slow Italians coming at the heels of our slowest intentions with the putting up of our curtains, which begin to be necessary in this November tramontana. The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2)
- My insides curl and shrivel, I am dying, slowly, by inches. A MEANS TO EVIL
- The next bullet missed Billy's kneecaps by inches.
