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UK
/ˈɪntʃwɜːm/
]
NOUN
- small hairless caterpillar having legs on only its front and rear segments; mostly larvae of moths of the family Geometridae
How To Use inchworm In A Sentence
- It moves by rolling, log-style, or by lifting its head or tail, inchworm-like, and muscling itself forward.
- Every move required her to bend and stretch like an inchworm. THE STAPLE STREET GANG: KIM AND THE SOOPER GLOOPER TORCH
- With the macro motion mode, the robot is a typical wheeled mobile robot and with the micro motion mode the robot is an inchworm robot.
- Endless traffic lights, endless construction and traffic that moves like an inchworm for four miles between Seventh Street NW and Bladensburg Road. New York Avenue at Bladensburg: Hit the gas, and speed cameras hit back
- With the help of a mechanical ascender, guides and novice climbers creep up ropes like inchworms into the forest canopy.
- The larva of geometer moths, the familiar inchworms, feed on mulberry leaves.
- With the help of a mechanical ascender, guides and novice climbers creep up ropes like inchworms into the forest canopy.
- Eventually he was reduced to scooting along like an inchworm.
- Experiments show that matchstick-size slivers of hydrogel, the type of material used for soft contact lenses, can ooze along like snails, slither like snakes, and creep ahead like inchworms.
- Students have some math work posted outside where they measured objects using an "inchworm" ruler. The Journal-Standard Homepage RSS