by a whisker
Example Sentences
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Before that, he was third in the Kentucky Derby by a whisker while being on the receiving end of some bumping down the stretch by Sierra Leone.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 1, 2025
Celtic won, by a whisker or by a mile, it doesn't really matter.
From BBC • Dec. 15, 2024
Five minutes later, a free-running Fountas missed the far corner by a whisker.
From Washington Post • May 18, 2022
They only failed, we're learning, by a whisker.
From Salon • Sep. 29, 2021
Sirius IV got in first by a whisker, it seems, but Aldebaran II was so close a second that it was a photo finish, and all the channels have been jammed ever since.
From The Vortex Blaster by Smith, E. E. (Edward Elmer)
