hair's-breadth
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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A comic encounter with a stubborn hippo blocking a road is one thing; a corroded bureaucracy and hair’s-breadth escapes from a Bengal tiger are another, especially when you have only Soviet-era antibiotics to help.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 31, 2024
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
Surely any one who can turn them a hair’s-breadth from their benighted ignorance is to be applauded.
From Richard Galbraith, Mariner Life among the Kaffirs by Emma Watts Phillips
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