WordNet
n. the length of breadth of a finger used as a linear measure [syn: finger, fingerbreadth, digit]
Usage examples of "finger's breadth".
The tanks sighed and lowered themselves the last finger's breadth to the ground.
Surely enough, when the sun stood a thick finger's breadth above the treeline, round and orange, the great doors swung slowly open.
The Great Bear stood a finger's breadth above the dark silhouette of the land.
The special hollow-tipped bullet would decapitate a man just as neatly, and the rifle had held true to within a finger's breadth at three hundred metres.
The detection loop was held rigid and a finger's breadth above the ground by its own internal charge.
To and fro, sometimes within a finger's breadth of his face, the bees hurtled like slingshot.
A ripple of magical energy passed through the room quicker than thought, leaving Sluuguth frozen, eyes bulging in fury, tentacles halted in mid-lash a finger's breadth from Gromph's face.
She was a finger's breadth taller than her husband: a wiry-slender blond woman in her forties with a handsome hatchet face and scarring around her left eye, dressed in a long black robe with bands of silver mesh at neck and throat.
His buskins' soft soles lifting only a finger's breadth with each step.
When he straightened to shake the water off his arms and face, he saw to his surprise that the sun was hardly more than a finger's breadth from the horizon.
He should have tilted his fan nacelles closer to vertical to keep a finger's breadth between the ground and the lower edge of his skirts.
Alustriel took a deep breath, drawing herself up to her full height, currently a finger's breadth above her sister.
The gun captain fussed over his aim, shouting at his men to lever the vast carriage a thumb's width to the right, then a finger's breadth back, until at last he was satisfied.
He peered at a glittering starscape, feeling some of the transmitted chill of outer space, just a finger's breadth away.