A very small distance or space.
1 I escaped becoming an infantryman before my time by a hair 's breadth .
2 They will have their work to bend him by a hair 's breadth .
3 Some one had stolen his vengeance from him by a hair 's breadth .
4 The old man's gaze, roving a hair 's breadth , saw the yawning drawers.
5 A large man, physically powerful, though a hair 's breadth from a moron.
6 The British Museum itself was saved only by a hair 's breadth .
7 Last night I was only a hair 's breadth away from it.
8 It lifted a hair 's breadth , and I heard a slight scraping sound below.
9 I dare not deviate one hair 's breadth from my appointed course.
10 Nor did he fail of his purpose by more than a hair 's breadth .
11 They escaped only by a hair 's breadth from being flattened out like pastry.
12 He was powerless to increase her happiness by a hair 's breadth .
13 Danny boy, you have just gotten by the Board by a hair 's breadth .
14 His views dovetail in to a hair 's breadth with K.'s views.
15 This is only one game lost, and by a hair 's breadth .
16 If you change your treatment of him a hair 's breadth , he will suspect.
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