hairbreadth

Example Sentences

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In a theater dependent on exaggerated storylines — hairbreadth escapes, implausible coincidences and either conclusively happy or disastrous endings — how can the momentousness of ordinary life be captured?

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 4, 2023

We all finished, and within a hairbreadth of our goal times.

From Washington Post • Dec. 28, 2022

If you build a different spacecraft — one that’s bigger, or shaped a hairbreadth differently, or made from different materials — it could introduce all sorts of errors and complications.

From New York Times • Sep. 12, 2017

So, with a single, hairbreadth victory between the two coming in, the Huskies prevailed, 30-21.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 22, 2011

He packed Us scanty traps, not understanding what had happened, but feeling that he had escaped calamity by a hairbreadth.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White