Hairsbreadths [noun]

He was more than once within a hairsbreadth of death but at length he was brought by his master, Kakinathucca, to his home.

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.

He carefully turned an unconnected control knob a hairsbreadth with utmost deliberation and precision.

Not by a hairsbreadth has all that has passed in the interval lowered you in my eyes.

I think, mamma, I never depart a hairsbreadth from your will.

You heard my terms, and nothing that you can urge will move me a hairsbreadth from them.

It just turned on the merest hairsbreadth of a pressure on the trigger.

Not a chink was visible, and the heavy bell would not move one hairsbreadth, notwithstanding all her efforts.

It was a fit ending to the first stage of Canadian history—a hopeless venture, a confession of weakness, a hairsbreadth escape.