How to pronounce “inch”(verb) in English

Both sides inch back a bit, but not necessarily to any avail.

So when Canada was kind of inching up on them, it seemed like they just .

I feel as if the entire universe is kind of inching towards the end, or so to speak.

And this is the one that I always think about when I think about America and the way we're inching toward oblivion by ignoring that there's

I was, like, inching my way.

And I knew my days would be spent in anxious worry, watching Jeff -- my love and partner -- inch his way up the mountain that had killed so many.