whisker

Example Sentences

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Stocks came within a whisker of a new bear market, Treasury yields spiked and the VIX “fear gauge” reached a level not seen since the Covid-19 panic.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026

There, after round one, the incumbent Socialist Mayor, Benoît Payan, is only a whisker ahead of RN candidate Franck Allisio.

From BBC • Mar. 16, 2026

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

Current polling, notoriously imprecise in Argentina, shows the Peronists winning 64% of Parliament’s Lower House, a whisker away from the two-thirds supermajority, says Matt Gertken, geopolitical strategist at BCA Research.

From Barron's • Oct. 24, 2025

He slides a toe along one whisker to its end, then lets it spring and sparkle in the moonlight.

From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz