hair's breadth
Example Sentences
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While Samson is not necessarily Kohli's heir, he had got India across the line by a hair's breadth in the manner of the India batting legend.
From BBC • Mar. 1, 2026
By a hair’s breadth, it didn’t, although the Germans sank 455 ships in the operation.
From Salon • Sep. 21, 2024
The rise to 90,296 cars and light trucks, from 89,741 was under 1%, a hair’s breadth from flat, according to the California New Car Dealers Assn.
From Los Angeles Times • May 2, 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
Celaena threw her dagger, and the blade clanged as it landed a hair’s breadth from the one she’d already embedded in the bull’s-eye.
From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas
