hairbreadth escape
Example Sentences
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With Scotland Yard sleuthing furiously in alternate chapters, John Creed evades the law through great physical discomfort, many a hairbreadth escape, but never for an instant ceases to be a perfect English gentleman.
From Time Magazine Archive
With MacArthur's help, Annalee Jacoby made a hairbreadth escape from the Philippines.
From Time Magazine Archive
A hairbreadth escape through the bustling back streets of Shanghai!
From Time Magazine Archive
That signaled the city's hairbreadth escape from defaulting on its many loans, bonds, bills and other debts.
From Time Magazine Archive
One hairbreadth escape succeeds another with rapidity that scarce leaves the reader breathing space....
From A Traitor's Wooing by Hill, Headon
