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How to use hairsbreadth in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word hairsbreadth? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
Mr. Gerstein was always ready with a slight acceleration, a hairsbreadth rubato or a sudden, subtle shift of tone to keep you on your toes.
This results in large load increases for very small deformations, often less than a hairsbreadth.
It's a book within a hairsbreadth of the landing strip, and its excitement comes from watching one of the greatest careers in modern letters make its final, unsettled preparations to touch down.
In 1985, when its sustainability is still unclear and Newhouse comes within a hairsbreadth of pulling the plug, she scores a photo shoot with the Reagans, in the White House.
Unfortunately we were not able to reach a compromise, but we were only a hairsbreadth away from one, so I am pleased that on Wednesday morning we shall be voting on that same compromise and I am assuming we shall achieve it.
We've missed our shot by a hairsbreadth and that's the same as missing by miles.
In the process of attempting to reunify Korea, the Northern-based army unleashed a powerful social revolution in the South and came within a hairsbreadth of driving the U. S. imperialist army off the peninsula.
She had no doctor and no midwife, and after four days in labor, she was a hairsbreadth from becoming one more Mozambican woman to die in childbirth.
In Avatar the spectacular rides to the rescue and hairsbreadth escapes have the whole film behind them and because of that are dramatically and emotionally satisfying.
Examples from Classical Literature
Not by a hairsbreadth has all that has passed in the interval lowered you in my eyes.
He had a habit of darting them around a wide circle of objects, without turning his head a hairsbreadth.
We catch a word, a touch of flippancy, a suggestion of licence, a covert sneer which goes too far by a hairsbreadth.
You heard my terms, and nothing that you can urge will move me a hairsbreadth from them.
He was more than once within a hairsbreadth of death but at length he was brought by his master, Kakinathucca, to his home.
We are balanced upon a hairsbreadth of history, between two tipping points.
I think, mamma, I never depart a hairsbreadth from your will.
I would take good care not to lean a hairsbreadth towards radicalism.
And now Gilbert of the White Hand led the shooting, and 'twas only by the space of a hairsbreadth upon the line that Tepus tied his score.
While Donum vitae stopped short of declaring the embryo to be a human person, Dignitas personae stops only a hairsbreadth from doing so.
In the Brahms finale they surged and carolled threatening to overwhelm the formal constraints but were held back by a hairsbreadth.
The English had their moment at the beginning of the 19th century, when we came within a hairsbreadth of republicanism and possibly an early form of communism.
The president of the Royal Horticultural Society even went so far as to tell me I was only a hairsbreadth away from having the best stand in the show.
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