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handsbreadth

NOUN
  1. any unit of length based on the breadth of the human hand

How To Use handsbreadth In A Sentence

  • With my failing right eye I saw dark loam, and my hands pushing something deep into it, some kind of white seeds that I planted a handsbreadth apart. Wildfire
  • Elaborately he swung back his buskined foot, aimed and planted a kick in the middle of the inert body, with force enough to drive it a handsbreadth across the slimy floor. Conan The Warlord
  • They roared and bellowed within a handsbreadth of each other as they confronted the travelers. The Lives of Felix Gunderson
  • The lama brought his thousand-wrinkled face once more a handsbreadth from the Englishman’s. Kim
  • I remained with my face a handsbreadth from the ground while he asked questions. Wildfire
  • Using a heavy piece of bark as a spade, he dug into the earth between the tree roots until he had excavated a shallow little hollow two handsbreadth across and perhaps eight inches deep. Wicked Will
  • It is a hadith qudsi, which Muslim scholars translate as a divine saying revealed by God to the Prophet Muhammad: "And if [my servant] draws nearer to me by a handsbreadth; I draw nearer to him by an armslength; and if he draws nearer to me by an armslength, I draw nearer to him by a fathom; and if he comes to me walking, I come to him running. Rev. James Martin, S.J.: Want to Experience God? You Already Have: Vulnerability
  • Albric slid his sword a handsbreadth from the scabbard, and the ghouls hissed at the sight of steel. THE RIVER KINGS’ ROAD
  • The lama brought his thousand-wrinkled face once more a handsbreadth from the Englishman's. Kim
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