She tried to coax the sleepy animal from under the bed, but each time she reached for the cat it inched farther from her questing fingers.

She hid behind a cluster of bushes, inching farther inside as the major ran through the Garden's gates.

My shoulders inched farther toward my ears.

I inched a little farther out on the edge of my seat, straining to hear, waiting for the real questions to start.

Inching farther toward her, he grabbed handfuls of her hair and sliced them off, ignoring her loud squawks of protest.

Radevel, instead of being put off, inched a little farther into the room.

Although a plow had been through recently, the drifts were inching farther across the pavement here than on the lower slopes, and there were bigger patches of ice.