1.   Audette struck the puck just inches above the cross-bar, a high stick infraction that negated what would have been the game-tying goal.

2.   First, witnesses say, he was in the right lane just inches behind a jeep.

3.   He brought it close to his face and then hunched over the defense table, his face just inches from the page, seemingly reading the contents intently.

4.   I keep talking as I sit down next to Andy and continue my lecture just inches from his unburied ear.

5.   Mohamed has been charged with playing a direct role in the carnage and chaos that was depicted on the screen just inches from his face.

6.   Often a cheeky bluejay will light on a limb just inches from the cats and taunt them.

7.   Smiser carefully guided his team to a stop just inches short of of the grandstand crowd.

8.   Swept by a gust of paranoia, Brooks got up from behind his mahogany desk and stuck his face just inches from the picture.

9.   Under Muslim custom, no one would be buried face down, without a shroud and just inches from the surface.

10.   With the slider threshold just inches or less from the roof, the space below the threshold is difficult to patch, flash, or caulk.