hair's-breath
Example Sentences
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It came with a heavy dose of drama, as Italy came within a hair’s breath of spoiling the party.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 5, 2022
"We were within a hair's breath to do a sit-down with him," Sarah Prescott said.
From BBC • Jul. 12, 2018
Belyaev and Trut’s experiment began in 1959 and it came within a hair’s breath of being shut down that very same year by none less than the premier of the Soviet Union.
From Slate • Jun. 2, 2017
It must have been by a hair's breath, but that fin-line crossed the bow of the submarine.
From The Submarine Boys' Lightning Cruise The Young Kings of the Deep by Durham, Victor G.
I told them I wouldn't stay here an hour if they swerved a hair's breath from the role of strangers.
From The Messenger by Robins, Elizabeth
