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Meanings of finger's breadth in English
Usage of finger's breadth in English
1
Its blade was missing, snapped off a finger's breadth from the guard.
2
We saw a finger's breadth of battle area; a pin-point of army front.
3
Should they swerve from them even a finger's breadth they would no longer be themselves.
4
The scalding steam barely missed my eye and blistered my brow a finger's breadth above it.
5
Often, they are face to face, separated by a space no wider than a finger's breadth.
6
She pushed back the lid a finger's breadth and he saw the pink satin for a second.
7
A break in the contact, of a finger's breadth, is as effectual as one of a mile.
8
The wood was inflexible as iron and all his efforts only availed to move it one finger's breadth.
9
Just think, if that cut had been only a finger's breadth lower-youwould have lost your eyes, and oh!
10
He was no longer than a man's forefinger, and the blade of the hatchet at his belt was but a finger's breadth.
11
Carefully sewed up in his waistband was found a letter, of a finger's breadth, written in cipher, and sealed with the Governor-General's seal.
12
Only so far as the longing for the beautiful permits do even the better ones remain faithful to Nature, not a finger's breadth more.