What is "a hair's breadth"

Usage examples of "a hair's breadth".

He picked out the leading Caproni in the third flight, hoping his attack would spoil the bomb-layer's aim, and he touched left rudder and rotated the Hurricane's nose downwards a hair's breadth until the silver and blue Caproni swam gently in the rose of his gunsight.

He lifted Xhia on tiptoe by his scrotum, then made the gesture of drawing the blade across the stretched sac, almost touching the skin, but shaving past it by a hair's breadth.

There was no communication between them that he could hear, yet they had the precision of daredevils, their manoeuvres repeatedly bringing them within a hair's breadth of each other.

At that point, he simply leaned toward the scorpion-man, letting the blade pass within a hair's breadth of his head, yet 1 sensed no concern or urgency from him.

The Consortium won't budge a hair's breadth and the workers have mocked his efforts, he has nightmares of a bloodbath one day soon, there's too much hate, too much fear, the place is too polarized.

At the very last moment, Heafstaag diverted the axe, its blade whistling within a hair's breadth of the southerner's throat.

The last time I'd been aboard a Serenissiman vessel, I'd come within a hair's breadth of being beheaded.

The light craft, obeying the new impulse, cleared the log by a hair's breadth, and the river, with obedient complicity, swung it broadside to the current, and bore it off silently and rapidly between the invisible banks.

Without altering the course a hair's breadth we slipped by each other within an oar's length.

Before they could do so, she took a running jump off the boulder she was perched on, clearing the heads of the bathers below by a hair's breadth and plunging into the tide.

Even the neck lead shortened, and still the grim figure on her back swerved her not a hair's breadth from her stride.