Usage of "hair's breadth"

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A very small distance or space.

Synonyms

Examples for "hair"

Good nutrition assures the best possible environment for building strong, lustrous hair. 
 Joy bauer's food cures 

Unfortunately, often the result is not too different to their original hair. 
 The South African 

That was a good idea, I mean cuttin' your hair andbleachin' it. 
 The Outsiders 

EBONY: Why is it important to use natural hair and skin products? 
 Ebony 

He trembled; his hair stood on end; he could not control himself. 
 Filipino Popular Tales 

Jeff went upstairs, brushed his teeth, and rubbed on the whisker-removing cream. 
 Dayworld 

He twitched his whiskers, gave a good sniff, and rejected the nuggets. 
 One for the money 

She could feel the whiskers growing back that he'd shaved that morning. 
 Austenland 

I'd be growing whiskers in a couple of years, she told me. 
 Dangerous Women 

Oh, and Whiskers is good, but he'll be happy to see you. 
 Audrey's door 

Yet they stood by their Covenant; they would not yield an hairbreadth. 
 Sketches of the Covenanters 

This surely was a day destined to be signalized by hairbreadth escapes. 
 Edgar Huntly; or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker 

All Melton was talking about your reckless riding, and your hairbreadth escapes. 
 A Prince of Sinners 

She wanted his lips a hairbreadth away from hers at all times. 
 The notorious scoundrel 

How different with him who will not surrender a hairbreadth of truth! 
 Sketches of the Covenanters 

But the prospect did not turn him a hairsbreadth from his course. 
 Expositions of Holy Scripture: the Acts 

Then I glided to him, literally floating a hairsbreadth off the floor. 
 A nameless witch 

Grinning madly, she skidded to a stop a hairsbreadth away from Irial. 
 Ink Exchange 

Lucius jumped back, the nymph's fist missing his jaw by a hairsbreadth. 
 Celtic fire 

He escaped by a hairsbreadth another clublike blow from those enormous fists. 
 The girl who played with fire 

Usage of hair's breadth in English

I escaped becoming an infantryman before my time by a hair's breadth. 
 The forgotten soldier 

They will have their work to bend him by a hair's breadth. 
 Come Rack! Come Rope! 

Some one had stolen his vengeance from him by a hair's breadth. 
 A Man Four-Square 

The old man's gaze, roving a hair's breadth, saw the yawning drawers. 
 The Grey Cloak 

A large man, physically powerful, though a hair's breadth from a moron. 
 The President's Assassin 

The British Museum itself was saved only by a hair's breadth. 
 Heartbreak House 

Last night I was only a hair's breadth away from it. 
 Hadda Pada 

It lifted a hair's breadth, and I heard a slight scraping sound below. 
 The Blood Ship 

I dare not deviate one hair's breadth from my appointed course. 
 After Long Years and Other Stories 

Nor did he fail of his purpose by more than a hair's breadth. 
 Ridgway of Montana (Story of To-Day, in Which the Hero Is Also t... 

They escaped only by a hair's breadth from being flattened out like pastry. 
 Where the Blue Begins 

He was powerless to increase her happiness by a hair's breadth. 
 Maurice Guest 

Danny boy, you have just gotten by the Board by a hair's breadth. 
 Dave Darrin's Second Year at Annapolis / Or, Two Midshipmen as N... 

His views dovetail in to a hair's breadth with K.'s views. 
 Gallipoli Diary,  Volume 1 

This is only one game lost, and by a hair's breadth. 
 The Grammar School Boys in Summer Athletics 

If you change your treatment of him a hair's breadth, he will suspect. 
 A Girl of the Limberlost 

Translations for hair's breadth

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Meanings of hair's breadth in English