slenderest

Luke Northmore's drive over the line from the resulting scrum gave Harlequins the slenderest of leads at half-time and they were unable to take further advantage of the extra man after the restart.

He made his wild way to the very top, to the slenderest branch that would support his weight.

A celebrated beauty, she wears tight corsets and glorious frocks, adhering to a regimen of regular exercise and a diet that often consists of little more than beef broth and the slenderest of orange slices.

Yet after being the fourth-fastest qualifier for the worlds final in Eugene, Allen was disqualified for a false start by the slenderest of margins.

If you didn’t recall that phrase from the 288-line Tennyson poem A Dream of Fair Women, you had only the slenderest hope of responding correctly with Cleopatra and Caesar.