How To Use By inches In A Sentence
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They told him a main artery had been missed by inches.
The Sun
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My insides curl and shrivel, I am dying, slowly, by inches.
A MEANS TO EVIL
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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
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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
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He escaped death by inches when a tree fell on his tent.
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And they say that the broken shards of glass missed his jugular vein by inches.
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they moved it by inches
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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)
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My insides curl and shrivel, I am dying, slowly, by inches.
A MEANS TO EVIL
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The next bullet missed Billy's kneecaps by inches.
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My insides curl and shrivel, I am dying, slowly, by inches.
A MEANS TO EVIL
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When you multiply by inches of mercury and divide by millibars, the millibars cancel out and you're left with inches of mercury.
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The shot he fired missed her by inches and killed a Marine a short distance behind.
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Evil comes to us by ells and goes away by inches.
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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
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete
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When her petrified brain did make the connection, she realized that they would be hanging on a rusty nail in the shed located at the bottom of the overgrown garden, its door probably jammed shut by inches of high grass and an invasion of convolvulus, its musty interior inhabited by various large and unchecked spiders.
The Home for Broken Hearts
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The ground of liberty is to be gained by inches, and we must be contented to secure what we can get from time to time and eternally press forward for what is yet to get.
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Tonight, she cheated death by inches when a savage mountain lion attacked.
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Evil comes to us by ells and goes away by inches.
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We had a drive put in in the 1970s and it missed the southwest corner by inches.
Times, Sunday Times
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Evil comes to us by ells and goes away by inches.
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The team thundered down the drive and swung out onto the road, the curricle's wheel missing the nearside fence by inches.
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The ax clove the rest of the sword in two, missing Drew's flesh by inches.
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When the dominie was a younger man he had first clashed with the minister during Mr. Rattray's attempts to do away with some old customs that were already dying by inches.
Auld Licht Idylls
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When McMillan was short by inches at the seventh, Smith drew the button and got two on a measure.
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Evil comes to us by ells and goes away by inches.
