hair's breadth , also: hair's-breadth
hairbreadth

We are within a hairbreadth of doing the same to the Americans.

Yet last night, she had been only a hairbreadth away from going to bed with her husband's brother!

For a moment she'd been a hairbreadth from shoving him across the room.

A third through the book the pages separated a hairbreadth.

He moved his head a hairbreadth to the side.

They remained for a moment a hairbreadth apart, eyes locked.

On another occasion they failed to win by a hairbreadth, and have the best record overall.

Will missed being at the Alamo by just a hairbreadth.

It missed her by a hairbreadth, but the action delighted the crowd.

That they seemed to be waiting for someone or something might provide him with the hairbreadth opportunity he needed to effect his getaway.

Nose in the air, she seemed only a hairbreadth away from running her finger down the wall to see how much dirt came off.

A third missed the helmet of the killer by only a hairbreadth.

It is, typically, full of flying bodies and hairbreadth timing.

"So much alike that we differ only by a hairbreadth.

Once again the unthinkable had happened, and now his pursuers were a hairbreadth away.

A large crack now runs through it but misses the figure of Mary by a hairbreadth.

Some hairbreadth escapes occurred; but, luckily, no lives were lost.

At this point another leitmotif of her life appears: the hairbreadth escape.

Both teams in the final had hairbreadth escapes from elimination Friday.

Short-term interest rates are already a hairbreadth above zero.

Murray held her hand over the pendant, fingers a hairbreadth away from the metal.

I came within a hairbreadth of being paralyzed.

He said it is possible to draw a map so that surgeons know where they are going with hairbreadth accuracy.

Sarah screamed and stumbled as a ball passed within a hairbreadth of her ear.

He was a hairbreadth from counting Garrett into his secret vigilante club.