Sentence examples for a finger's breadth from inspiring English sources

Leonardo da Vinci employed a "finger" measurement, but his was actually a finger's breadth (0.75 inch).

The basic subunit was the digit, doubtlessly a finger's breadth, of which there were 28 in the royal cubit.

Fingers seem to be everywhere: you can point fingers, give the finger, wag your finger, finger a wallet, have a green thumb, measure a finger's breadth, or simply put your finger on an idea.

Here too Sir Godfrey Kneller's noble portrait of Grinling Gibbons has been replaced on the wall inside an elaborately carved frieze that was once attributed to him.The Saloon, which has been largely untouched since Walpole's day, has been rehung with the largest canvasses, one of which only made it back into the building by a finger's breadth.

By Deirdre Foley Mendelssohn May 10 , 2010Fingers seem to be everywhere: you can point fingers, give the finger, wag your finger, finger a wallet, have a green thumb, measure a finger's breadth, or simply put your finger on an idea.

Even within each quadrant you should space your injections out about a centimeter (half an inch or a finger's breadth) apart.

The night we were there, my roast kid plate included a number of little nuggets (was that a finger's-breadth length of tiny tenderloin?), including rolled boneless belly, liver and kidneys.

He played a "splendid" solo, Von Uffenbach noted, followed by "a cadenza that really frightened me, for such playing has not been heard before and can never be equalled: he brought his fingers no more than a straw's breadth from the bridge, leaving no room for the bow – and that on all four strings with imitations and incredible speed".

It will not move it a hair's breadth.

(Dukes beat statutory rape charges by a hair's breadth).

A modified Kuntscher nail, of appropriate length, was threaded over the guide-wire and advanced until only a finger-breadth of the nail was palpable above the piriform fossa.