Crossword-Solution: INCHING
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Inching | p. pr. & vb. n. | of Inch |
We have 9 clues for the answer “INCHING”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Being a-creep? | 1 answer |
| Caterpillar's activity | 1 answer |
| Making slow progress | 1 answer |
| Moving glacially | 1 answer |
| Moving very slowly, bit by bit | 1 answer |
| Moving gradually | 2 answers |
| Moving along slowly | 2 answers |
| Moving at a snail's pace | 2 answers |
| Moving slowly | 5 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
AMCEEZ
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with INCHING (5)
Following the second hand's ride around the dial, he mused at how as a boy he used to watch the clock in school, the thin red line sliding silently past the bold black numerals, inching painfully closer with each agonizing second toward the end of the school day.
She blew hoarsely before the tardy ones had reached the bank, and when abreast of the town her bell clanged, the patter of her great wheel ceased, she reversed her engines and swung gracefully till her bow was up against the current, then ploughed back, inching in slowly until, with much shouting and the sound of many gongs, she slid her nose quietly into the bank beneath the trading-post and was made fast.
Plenty of those, though." He spun a fascinating yarn then, how he slowly gained the acceptance of the mountain-dwellers, and then their trust, and then betrayed it in subtle, beneficent ways: introducing Free Energy to their greenhouses, then a gengineered crop or two, then curing a couple deaths, slowly inching them toward the Bitchun Society, until they couldn't remember why they hadn't wanted to be a part of it from the start.
Mark Williams give a picture of a long journey by those slow coaches: "Inching along, we are inching along, At the pace of a snail, we are inching along, Our horses are hardy, our camels are strong, We all shall reach Urga by inching along.
Notwithstanding, when the day of revelations was come to an end, and the ambling horse was inching the ancient buggy up the homeward road, the boy found himself turning his back on the wonderful new world with something of the same blessed sense of relief as that which he had experienced in former home-goings from South Tredegar, the commonplace.
Quotes with INCHING (3)
There is something more powerful than any army. Something strong enough to topple kings, and even Darklings. Do you know what that thing is?” I shook my head, inching away from him.“Faith,” he breathed, his black eyes wild. “Faith.
It seems to me that few people walk their ways with deliberation, stopping every so often to delight in the seasons and in the simple, important, enduring things. Most of those I know are either rushing about blindly, almost headlong, or inching along, looking down. Both methods of progression are, in a spiritual sense, not progression at all, but symptoms of fear. No matter what has happened or what you fear will happen, you have to walk as though you were going somewhere — …
When you would be looking somewhere maybe standing near a window and looking outside, I will come slowly towards you. And first I will inhale your sublime fragrance that emanates from your soft and tender body. Then slowly inching towards you I would hug you from behind and take you in my arms.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, Universal, WSJ.
Used 9 times in crossword archives (2001–2021).