hair's breadth
Example Sentences
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The yield on the 10-year Treasury note rose 0.049 percentage point to 4.995%, a hair’s breadth from 19-year highs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
Reaching a semifinal is coming within a hair’s breadth of glory, because after a World Cup final, there’s nothing left,” Barton said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
By a hair’s breadth, it didn’t, although the Germans sank 455 ships in the operation.
From Salon ● Sep. 21, 2024
The U.S. dollar was within a hair's breadth of the closely watched 150 yen level at 149.84 yen.
From Reuters ● Oct. 20, 2023
Glancing up, he saw with a start that his fingers were a hair’s breadth away from a large splayed hand that had been hammer-etched deep into the stone.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
