Hairsbreadth (Noun)
Meaning
A very small distance or space; "they escaped by a hair's-breadth"; "they lost the election by a whisker".
Classification
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure.
Examples
- She swerved the car to the side of the road by a hairsbreadth to avoid a head-on collision.
- The outcome of the closely contested football match was decided by a hairsbreadth margin of one point.
- As I lost my footing, I clung to the mountain rock by a hairsbreadth to prevent myself from falling into the valley below.
- He escaped certain death by a hairsbreadth when the speeding train hurtled by mere inches from his face.
- The astronauts successfully navigated the spacecraft through the narrow passage by a hairsbreadth, narrowly avoiding catastrophic collision.