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
"A man talks wild when the woman he's with only misses death by a hair's breath."
From The Hermit of Far End by Pedler, Margaret
The Chief then devised another scheme more nefarious than the former, which he was within a hair's breath of accomplishing.
From The Last Laird of MacNab An Episode in the Settlement of MacNab Township, Upper Canada by Various
