[
UK
/wˈɪskɐ/
]
[ US /ˈhwɪskɝ, ˈwɪskɝ/ ]
[ US /ˈhwɪskɝ, ˈwɪskɝ/ ]
NOUN
-
a very small distance or space
they escaped by a hair's-breadth
they lost the election by a whisker - a long stiff hair growing from the snout or brow of most mammals as e.g. a cat
VERB
-
furnish with whiskers
a whiskered jersey
How To Use whisker In A Sentence
- They are able to sense very minute vibrations in the ground, and feel their way through total darkness with their paws and whiskers.
- My mom is a cat whisker collector, I'm her sole supplier.
- An scrape of whiskers or daub of toothpaste unrinsed in the bathroom sink. Ann, meet Bob
- He was wakened by a savage whiskerando of the other watch, who, seizing him by his waistband, dragged him most indecorously out, furiously denouncing him for a skulker. Israel Potter
- Andrea thrilled us with his free-diving skills, only to be easily outdone by his bewhiskered dancing partners.
- All three of the democratic frontrunners were only separated by a whisker's bredth. Top Edwards Adviser Joe Trippi: Hillary And Obama Are "Banging Down The Doors" For Our Endorsement
- If you use 2 Blaser vanes they will hold up to many-many shots through the whiskers. Drop away rests or a 2 pronged rest, or a Whisker biscuit
- TOKYO She may be cute, but the latest top model to make her debut in Vogue is also podgy with short legs and whiskers.
- You escaped serious injury by a whisker, so consider yourselves very lucky.
- Nevertheless, the immense size of its larynx or thropple, which William dissected out and brought with him to England, seems to indicate vast powers of voice in this animal; but I am at a loss to conjecture why it should be provided either with this unusual capability of "blaring," or with the exceedingly strong whiskers that arm its muzzle, organs which, though nominally of little or no importance except in The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 367, April 25, 1829
