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hair's-breadth::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | hair, hairsbreadth, whisker |
| Type of | small indefinite amount, small indefinite quantity |
they escaped by a hair's-breadth.
Examples of hair's-breadth
hair's-breadth
With any professional sport you are only a hair's breadth from success or failure.
From the bucksfreepress.co.uk
We're a hair's breadth away from the launch of smartphone and tablet card readers.
From the nzherald.co.nz
For the Open they grow the rough and narrow the fairways to a hair's breadth.
From the telegraph.co.uk
In that 2009 case, the court came within a hair's breadth of striking down the law.
From the campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com
You'd think this would be a slam-dunk, but the measure won by only a hair's breadth.
From the sfgate.com
Twenty years ago, the Nikkei got to within a hair's breadth of 40,000.
From the newsweek.com
In the fall of 2008, the US financial system came within a hair's breadth of an implosion.
From the economist.com
If they varied their opinion from mine by a hair's-breadth, I would jump all over them.
From the blogs.psychcentral.com
The second seed is within a whisker of the final and a hair's breadth of the No1 ranking.
From the guardian.co.uk
