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

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a finger's breadth

"a hair's breadth" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used to describe a very small or narrow distance or difference. It can also be used metaphorically to convey a sense of closeness or similarity. Example: The two teams were neck and neck throughout the race, with only a hair's breadth separating them at the finish line. The difference between the two candidates in the election was a hair's breadth, with only a few votes deciding the winner. Despite their differing opinions, the two friends were always only a hair's breadth away from understanding each other.

Idiom

By a hair's breadth.

If a person escapes from some danger by a hair's breadth, they only just managed to avoid it.

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It's a hair's breadth away from tumbling into chaos, but sticks the landing the more intensely that Sorbara sells her solitariness.

Vice

Overall, there's about a hair's breadth worth of difference between these two gentlemen on the issues.

The Economist

If anything, by a hair's breadth, she has the edge.

The New Yorker

Greece came within a hair's breadth of leaving the eurozone.

The Guardian - Business

I did this and dodged elimination by a hair's breadth.

The Guardian - TV & Radio

In the middle of this intimate act a perfect stranger would be a hair's breadth away.

The New York Times

In that 2009 case, the court came within a hair's breadth of striking down the law.

The New York Times

A return to large-scale commercial whaling is just a hair's breadth away.

The Economist

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"But part of the point is that often there's but a hair's-breadth difference between the two".

Huffington Post

"Prince George was born a hair's-breadth away from Leo, but he's still Cancer – 29 degrees and 59 minutes.

The Guardian

The character seems only a hair's-breadth away from Napoleon Dynamite.

The New York Times

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