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a very small distance or space
they escaped by a hair's-breadth
they lost the election by a whisker
How To Use hair's-breadth In A Sentence
- they escaped by a hair's-breadth
- Had the Parkers been cruising at another five hundred feet, he would have managed a bumpy but passable landing, reducing the incident to just another anecdote about the kind of cliffhanging hair's-breadth escape that came so frequently in the lives of top undercover agents like Richard and Mary Parker. The Sinister Six Combo
- Vin Diesel is the leathered, tattooed roughneck superspy, and the spot sends up Bond tropes like his relationship with Q and his penchant for cool cars and hair's-breadth escapes, but it does it with mock solemnity.
