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 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
They've found excuses to turn nearly every moment into a frantic race against the clock, driving the characters from one hair's-breadth escape to the next.
From The Verge • Jul. 22, 2016
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
The cart slewed across the smooth asphalt, lunged perilously to one side, came within a hair's-breadth of upsetting, and then righted.
From Rick Dale, A Story of the Northwest Coast by Munroe, Kirk
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