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Meanings of finger's breadth in English
Synonyms
Examples for "finger"
Examples for "finger"
1
All the children looked in the direction in which his finger pointed.
2
Keep the thumb erect; raise the first finger of the left hand.
3
A budding crisis is not the time for turf wars or finger-pointing.
4
She forgot the dog in the newer interest of my wounded finger.
5
The cells in the finger tips experience a sensation of burning pain.
1
Iberia and emerging markets including eastern Europe and India saw double-digit growth.
2
Meanwhile, Americans have seen double-digit annual increases in their health insurance costs.
3
Double-digit reductions in gas and electricity prices are, however, a different matter.
4
That puts Irish pensions on course for another year of double-digit returns.
5
So far this year, sales are rising by a double- digit percentage.
1
Nineteen children were victims of sexual assault, but only four of them had a hymenal orifice larger than one fingerbreadth.
2
About three fingerbreadths, said the hostess, slapping three cups of wine down in front of us.
3
And with two fingerbreadths of forehead!
4
With two fingerbreadths of forehead!
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.