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Synonyms for hairsbreadth
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : hairz-bredth, -bretth, -breth |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈhɛərzˌbrɛdθ, -ˌbrɛtθ, -ˌbrɛθ |
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Définition of hairsbreadth
- As in hairbreadth : noun small margin
- As in whisker : noun slight or narrow amount
- Not by a hairsbreadth has all that has passed in the interval lowered you in my eyes.
- Extract from : « When We Dead Awaken » by Henrik Ibsen
- I think, mamma, I never depart a hairsbreadth from your will.
- Extract from : « The Storm » by Aleksandr Nicolaevich Ostrovsky
- You heard my terms, and nothing that you can urge will move me a hairsbreadth from them.
- Extract from : « The Impostor » by Harold Bindloss
- He was more than once within a hairsbreadth of death but at length he was brought by his master, Kakinathucca, to his home.
- Extract from : « The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920 » by Various
- It was a fit ending to the first stage of Canadian history—a hopeless venture, a confession of weakness, a hairsbreadth escape.
- Extract from : « A Historical Geography of the British Colonies » by Charles Prestwood Lucas
- Not a chink was visible, and the heavy bell would not move one hairsbreadth, notwithstanding all her efforts.
- Extract from : « Fairy Circles » by Unknown
- I would take good care not to lean a hairsbreadth towards radicalism.
- Extract from : « The Story of My Life » by Egerton Ryerson
- When old Henry Ford made up his mind on any p'int a cyclone wouldn't turn him a hairsbreadth—no, nor an earthquake neither.
- Extract from : « Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1896 to 1901 » by Lucy Maud Montgomery
- He had a habit of darting them around a wide circle of objects, without turning his head a hairsbreadth.
- Extract from : « Adle Dubois » by Mrs. William T. Savage
- We catch a word, a touch of flippancy, a suggestion of licence, a covert sneer which goes too far by a hairsbreadth.
- Extract from : « Judges and Ruth » by Robert A. Watson
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