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hair's breadth
adjective as in near
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Example Sentences
But if I knew my Purpose I belike would not swerve a hairs-breadth from my own course which is an unhallowedly selfish one.
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He jumped madly to avoid it, and it missed him only by a hairs breadth.
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The champagne bottle whizzed past his head, missing him by a hairs-breadth and smashing on the opposite wall.
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He accomplished two daring things—the one successfully, while the other was within a hairs-breadth of a very shocking issue.
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Ah, you may laugh, it was a miraculous escape, he was within a hairs breadth of the noose; but I saved his neck for him.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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