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Meanings of whisker in inglês
Long, whisker-like projection that form from metal objects over time.
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Sinônimos
Examples for "hair"
Examples for "hair"
1
Good nutrition assures the best possible environment for building strong, lustrous hair.
2
Unfortunately, often the result is not too different to their original hair.
3
That was a good idea, I mean cuttin' your hair andbleachin' it.
4
EBONY: Why is it important to use natural hair and skin products?
5
He trembled; his hair stood on end; he could not control himself.
1
But the prospect did not turn him a hairsbreadth from his course.
2
Then I glided to him, literally floating a hairsbreadth off the floor.
3
Grinning madly, she skidded to a stop a hairsbreadth away from Irial.
4
Lucius jumped back, the nymph's fist missing his jaw by a hairsbreadth.
5
He escaped by a hairsbreadth another clublike blow from those enormous fists.
1
Shots were judged to a hair's-breadth, and the judging was perfectly fair.
2
Society and the sternness of life were, however, but a hair's-breadth away:-
3
Delicate to a hair's-breadth, hand and eye true and steady as steel.
4
But nothing Pepper said could turn me a hair's-breadth from my purpose.
5
You have missed your calling by something more than a hair's-breadth, Morty.
português
bigode A long stiff hair growing from the snout or brow of most mammals as e.g. a cat.
espanhol
poner pelos Usage of whisker in inglês
1
Jeff went upstairs, brushed his teeth, and rubbed on the whisker-removing cream.
2
A second referendum a decade later did pass, but only by a whisker.
3
In a moment not a tail or a whisker was to be seen.
4
It stopped a whisker away from its lowest in four years.
5
He appears destined to fall a whisker short of his goal.
6
I think I saw a white whisker as he turned under the lamp-post.
7
He had a red, flabby face, framed in a thick whisker turning grey.
8
A scanty growth of whisker did not conceal the contour of his jaw.
9
The Coalition, favourites to win, came within a whisker of losing.
10
He cared not a whisker whether that was anger or embarrassment.
11
Cannabis is a whisker away from being officially legal in Canada.
12
Each whisker is worth from six bits to a dollar and a quarter.
13
He wore his mustache with a short beard and closely-cut whisker.
14
He wore his moustache with a short beard and closely-cut whisker.
15
We're receiving an encrypted whisker laser from one of Charon's comsats.
16
After another few seconds of sniffing, touching, and whisker twitching, curiosity overcame wariness.
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