hairbreadth

Example Sentences

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Having completed his radio interview after the Bruins’ hairbreadth victory over Washington, coach Mick Cronin asked a colleague where he could find the one reporter traveling to cover the team.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 26, 2025

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

From Washington Post • Dec. 28, 2022

We drove there past a crowded market within a hairbreadth of pedestrians and cows and flower sellers and carts ambling along the side of the road.

From New York Times • Nov. 10, 2016

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