Sentence examples similar to managing by a whisker from inspiring English sources

The too-smooth-by-a-whisker Mitt Romney offered - surprise!

BY A whisker, Binyamin Netanyahu, Israel's prime minister, did ultimately manage to maintain the majority of his national camp over the disparate groups that together constitute the peace camp in Israel's divided and fragmented new parliament.

He was able to keep his campaign going largely because he managed to beat Clinton by a whisker for second place.

He was second in the same race a year later, when Real Quiet lost by a whisker.

In fact, by a whisker.

Not out by a whisker.

The incumbent lost by a whisker.

Phelps had caught Spitz by a whisker.

A tragedy was averted by a whisker".

4.27pm BST Saved by a whisker!

And not even by a whisker.