Synonyms
Examples for "handbreadth"
Examples for "handbreadth"
1
A cart creaked past, one wheel coming within a handbreadth of Owein's head.
2
By what looked like a handbreadth, we cleared each other, and the race continued.
3
The door to the dungeons stood cracked open a handbreadth.
4
A handbreadth of basis is enough for me, if it be actually basis and ground!
5
She was kicking at him while simultaneously attempting to climb the last handbreadth up onto the platform.
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The sun was but a handsbreadth from the western edge of land.
2
I hit the floor crouched, a handsbreadth off his right elbow.
3
The lama brought his thousand-wrinkled face once more a handsbreadth from the Englishman's.
4
The sun was a good handsbreadth above the forest canopy.
5
The droid rolled along quickly behind Breha, just a handsbreadth from the train of her gown.
6
The blaster carved a channel a handsbreadth wide right through her and into the seat behind.
7
The sliver of light grew to a handsbreadth.
8
From Scotch to Irish is but a handsbreadth.
9
After minutes, the door was pulled back a handsbreadth, and two eyes looked out at him.
10
Then the medicine men raised the sun a handsbreadth in the air, but it was still too hot.
11
The other man struck Tirant in the middle of his thigh, and the wound gaped about a handsbreadth.
12
The interface gun dragged my arm up a handsbreadth and I shot his legs out from under him.
13
Her femoral artery was less than a handsbreadth from the puncture where Sand had sunk his fangs into muscle.
14
I bank hard on my stick and skim a handsbreadth from the walls, nearly shaving off my right S-foils.
15
Vidaura's surfer sleeve was almost as tall as my own and our eyes were only about a handsbreadth apart.
16
She pushed herself upright, one hand gripping the curved end of the bed that rose a handsbreadth above the mattress.