| Once a mere fantasy, the idea of growing new, healthy heart tissue to replace damaged or diseased heart muscle is inching closer to reality. |
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| Iphigenia smiled and watched as the girl kept inching back toward the portal to the outer hypostyle. |
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| I was staring out the windshield when I noticed his arm rising up in the air and slowly inching behind the headrest of my seat. |
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| We moved silently, talking in whispers, inching along on our scraping skis. |
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| As I sat on a bus today, inching along in traffic, it became clear to me that all buses should be free. |
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| Does this suggest that the press is kind of inching back towards business as usual? |
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| They kept begging and pleading with him, but he kept relentlessly inching the vehicle forward. |
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| The snake grinned villainously, and began inching toward me, but then my blood turned warm again. |
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| Work on the long anticipated National Pension Scheme has been inching along slowly but surely. |
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| Perhaps mine just has a slippery slope and I have been slowly inching my family toward the sharp edge of the cliff. |
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| Sooner or later, you'll see the cable car, which looks like a matchbox toy from the valley floor, inching up the grade. |
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| The weather was clear and the morning rush hour traffic had already built up and was inching along. |
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| Here come the tumbrils, inching their way slowly through the rotting cabbages and vulgar ribaldry of Republican isolationists. |
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| Aleck tried to pull the ring off, by slowly inching it forward and twisting from side to side, but had no luck either. |
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| So as she saw him slowly inching his face to hers, she couldn't help but inch toward him as well. |
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| The traffic seemed to be inching along for the first 30 minutes and there was plenty of time to look around. |
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| I always liked chimney climbing, wedging my body, arms and legs inside narrow walls and inching upward. |
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| The machine juddered and shook violently sometimes inching across the kitchen floor. |
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| The light was inching along slowly, but it had almost finished its circuit. |
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| I return to inching through everyday moments, a life of timecards and textbooks. |
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| Then, inching the window open a tiny fraction, the rogue captain slipped the end of the blowpipe into the room. |
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| If the revenues have been going down, the cost of operating the world's largest network of railways has been steadily inching upwards. |
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| So we get back in the car and start inching our way up the hill. |
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| With Europe still inching along, however tortoiselike, the European Central Bank seems loath to abandon its characteristically cautious path. |
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| We climbed slowly towards the Katantika Pass, inching towards the magnificent, glaciated summits of Presidente and Flor, their white snow tinged with glacial blue. |
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| It rides a steady handclap and a bongo sound, less syncopated than Diwali but faster, inching toward disco. |
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| This allows exceptional depth control for inching the hitch up or down to provide precise implement control. |
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| Since global stocks are inching their way towards positive growth, the EUR also inched its way up against its primary rival. |
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| The manager may not advance in great leaps and bounds, but he has to keep inching along. |
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| But while change is still frustratingly slow, we are at least inching – albeit stubbornly and at times uncertainly – in the right direction. |
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| Things have not gone well – the school was placed in special measures more than a year ago and is now only inching its way out. |
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| The two parties are currently inching ever closer to a deal that would transfer policing and justice powers from Westminster to Stormont. |
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| Caution, Don't inching the remote control wire because it causes the swinging of the boat. |
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| Peas are a stable market at good prices with India inching back into the market despite high costs. |
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| It required a judgment by default from the European Court of Justice for things slowly to start inching forward, step by step. |
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| In investing, the tortoise beats the hare because the tortoise never stumbles. It just keeps inching forward day in, day out, non-stop. |
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| The United States and North Korea are inching closer together as a result of the ongoing nuclear negotiations. |
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| But it is also incredibly moving and instructive to watch the inching towards social justice. |
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| Surprisingly, the official tells us, Utah is inching toward accepting the money, as is Tennessee. |
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| Knowing this, Bing has been gently, though strategically, inching its way into the inner circle. |
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| Shoving the billfold in his jeans pocket, he replaced the board and began inching the dresser back into place when he heard a noise in the hall outside. |
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| The domino theory may not have worked well for John Foster Dulles, but it is an apt metaphor for how conservative critics are inching down the media archipelago. |
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| May was inching slowly closer to David, who stood rooted to the spot. |
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| As the women made their protest, motorists began inching up the grass verge to get past their horseboxes, or made a series of tight manoeuvres to turn away. |
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| While all the main UK banks swear passionate allegiance to the very British concept of free while in credit banking, costs are inching up on several fronts. |
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| You know sometimes when the pitcher sees the guy on first inching his way towards second and pegs the ball to the first baseman, in a feeble attempt to get the fella out? |
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| When the movie resumed, Jude slowly began inching my blanket onto him. |
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| As table 2 shows, the Asia-Pacific region has been inching towards a level of intraregional imports similar to that of Europe, though the trend is driven by changes concentrated in a few subregions. |
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| It was pouring with rain and Jorge and Heloise were soaked to the skin, trapped in the sea of people, holding their suitcases and slowly inching their way forward to the covered walkway. |
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| Once you do, you can take your time, inching forward like a glowworm. |
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| The inching pedal slows forward movement without changing engine speed. |
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| Elizabeth and Philip blowing hot and cold non-stop, and sent off on missions that barely connect, the main story arch inching forward too slowly for my liking. |
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| In 1992 Patrick Fiori was back in the media spotlight again, inching his way up the career ladder when he carried off the top award at the 'Chanson Francophone' contest in Perpignan. |
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| Nevertheless, international food prices remain well above pre-crisis and historical levels, and have been inching up recently as the above mentioned price drivers have changed course. |
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| Yes, the scabies, and for those who don't really know this illness, it's not that important, just disturbing because you're inching all over all the time. |
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| The digging was difficult enough: 18 months of back-breaking work by two teams inching towards each other often through difficult and, at times, uncertain geology. |
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| The man continues to walk, oblivious, with me inching along behind. |
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| A solid second run for the Ulsterwoman meant she progressed into the semis, inching ever closer to medal positions. |
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| So there I was in my dinner suit, white shirt and black shoes, inching down the icy road past people in woolly hats, fleeces and gloves. |
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| Another clue that the royal relationship might be inching forwards. |
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| Divorce rates were already slowly inching up in the 19th century as the result of secularization trends, the liberalization of norms concerning individual choice, and the lessening of religious influence. |
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