Any unit of length based on the breadth of the human hand.
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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.
1 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.
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