Similar words: where the shoe pinches, every inch, chess, chest, riches, duchess, catches, touches. Meaning: adv. by a short distance.
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1. They escaped death by inches when the house collapsed.
2. The car missed me by inches.
3. The car missed us by inches.
4. The bus missed us by inches .
5. He escaped death by inches when a tree fell on his tent.
6. Then she crawled forward again, by inches.
7. The next bullet missed Billy's kneecaps by inches.
8. He said it missed her head by inches, while they watched election coverage on television last night.
9. The shot he fired missed her by inches and killed a Marine a short distance behind.
10. It only missed hitting an oncoming white sports-car by inches and by the swiftness of the young sports-car-driver's reaction.
11. When McMillan was short by inches at the seventh, Smith drew the button and got two on a measure.
12. She was dying by inches.
13. The truck missed me by inches.
14. The river was rising by inches, threatening us.
15. They moved it by inches.
16. We escaped from the accident by inches.Sentence dictionary
17. The river was rising by inches.
18. I would have died by inches before I touched a single hair of his head!
19. She escaped death by inches when the wall fell down.
20. Olivia runs a lathe semifinished product of metal by inches.
22. We were all shitting bricks as the truck missed the car by inches.
23. But Caddick's throw was slightly adrift and De Silva survived by inches when Stewart swept the bails off.
24. In the final quarter , Iniesta had the fifth goals at his feet but missed by inches.
25. Using a limited form of precognition, zealots can even predict enemy movements striking, with deadly accuracy and dodging attacks by inches.
26. Before the end, Giovinco made a great run and his shot was off target by inches.
27. Olivia runs a lathe which cuts semifinished product of metal by inches.
28. She was suffering from malarial fever, and seemed dying by inches.
More similar words: where the shoe pinches, every inch, chess, chest, riches, duchess, catches, touches, hatches, war chest, britches, chestnut, clutches, chessman, toy chest, switches, stitches, chess set, rancher, clincher, pinched, orchestra, bunched, hunched, quenched, tranche, in stitches, blanched, clenched, rain check.