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Meanings of hairbreadth in English

Having the breadth of a hair; very narrow.

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Examples for "hairsbreadth"
Examples for "hairsbreadth"
1
But the prospect did not turn him a hairsbreadth from his course.
Expositions of Holy Scripture: the Acts
2
Then I glided to him, literally floating a hairsbreadth off the floor.
A nameless witch
3
Grinning madly, she skidded to a stop a hairsbreadth away from Irial.
Ink Exchange
4
Lucius jumped back, the nymph's fist missing his jaw by a hairsbreadth.
Celtic fire
5
He escaped by a hairsbreadth another clublike blow from those enormous fists.
The girl who played with fire
1
I escaped becoming an infantryman before my time by a hair's breadth.
The forgotten soldier
2
They will have their work to bend him by a hair's breadth.
Come Rack! Come Rope!
3
Some one had stolen his vengeance from him by a hair's breadth.
A Man Four-Square
4
The old man's gaze, roving a hair's breadth, saw the yawning drawers.
The Grey Cloak
5
A large man, physically powerful, though a hair's breadth from a moron.
The President's Assassin
Usage of hairbreadth in English
1
Yet they stood by their Covenant; they would not yield an hairbreadth.
Sketches of the Covenanters
2
This surely was a day destined to be signalized by hairbreadth escapes.
Edgar Huntly; or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker
3
All Melton was talking about your reckless riding, and your hairbreadth escapes.
A Prince of Sinners
4
She wanted his lips a hairbreadth away from hers at all times.
The notorious scoundrel
5
How different with him who will not surrender a hairbreadth of truth!
Sketches of the Covenanters
6
His life is balanced on a hairbreadth brink between practical jokes and danger.
The new yorker
7
Still, I got it done -a hairbreadth escape from cyberspace.
The new yorker
8
More than once he was within a hairbreadth of the edge.
The Neverending Story
9
I rolled desperately, and escaped being crushed by its bulk by a hairbreadth.
Changes
10
The blade was now only a hairbreadth away from his throat.
The hangman's daughter
11
The first pin gave easily, but the second was a hairbreadth out of reach.
Shadows Return
12
Both ran to extremes, Rochefort in his literary invectives, Flourens in his hairbreadth adventures.
Paris under the Commune / The Seventy-Three Days of the Second S...
13
His feet suffered manifold hairbreadth escapes from the sharp blade.
Burned Bridges
14
They did, and all sorts of hairbreadth escapes as well.
Grace Harlowe's Fourth Year at Overton College
15
Not that he was convinced, no, not by a hairbreadth.
The Justice of the King
16
Do you know that was one of the most hairbreadth escapes of my life?
The Odds / And Other Stories
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