He could barely get the words out, his jaw an effort to move, and his eyes so heavy they were inexorably sliding shut.

During 1940, the situation slowly but inexorably slid towards a worst-case scenario.

He slumped to his knees, fingers sliding inexorably down the muzzle.

As she slid inexorably into the darkness, a tiny smile lifted the corners of her lips.

It's like setting a pair of those Scottie-dog magnets on a table and watching them slide inexorably toward each other.

She slid inexorably toward the floor and, she supposed, toward death.

It slid into the water slowly and inexorably, but the fire burned on those sections not yet submerged.

She felt confined, as if black velvet walls were slowly, inexorably sliding in on her.

The pendulum is inexorably sliding downwards and will eventually kill him.

From then on, the match slowly and inexorably slid the teen-ager's way.