hair's-breadth
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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But the story’s many twists and hair’s-breadth escapes — its devolution into a Holocaust picaresque — lack the foundation of historical truth that undergirded the writer’s debut effort.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 24, 2025
As much as anything else, Salyut-7 is about spectacle, about one daring hair’s-breadth survival after another, and about how a resourceful, dogged team deals with an escalating series of potentially fatal situations.
From The Verge • Sep. 29, 2017
As the FBI dragged its feet, they didn’t know — no one did — that the state of emergency was a hair’s-breadth from activation.
From Salon • Sep. 16, 2017
This time, a New Hampshire win would go even further to juice up her campaign after her unsatisfying hair's-breadth win in Iowa.
From US News • Feb. 9, 2016
He made no attempt whatever to slow down, but just at the last moment he caused the car to swerve violently, and they missed the dog by a hair's-breadth.
From Across the Stream by Benson, Edward Frederic
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