Meanings of millimeter by millimeter in English

He started sliding his arm forward, millimeter by millimeter.

I inspected my baby millimeter by millimeter.

Still on my back, I eased my right leg toward the edge of the bed, millimeter by millimeter, pivoting on my buttocks.

When it wishes to descend, it pulls in the silk thread and eats it, millimeter by millimeter, heading for a soft if precarious landing.

Puppet Each 9.5-inch-tall Coraline puppet has a composite skeleton, silicone flesh, and 20 ball-and-socket joints, which animators tweaked millimeter by millimeter.

Millimeter by millimeter her trembling hand slid them from beneath the pillow.

Millimeter by millimeter, the gunk yielded and the kinks came free.

Millimeter by millimeter, I inspected each shaft, metaphysis, epiphysis, groove, foramen, suture, and fossa, looking for indications of disease, malformation, or trauma.