They escaped by a hair's-breadth.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Noun : We escaped an accident by a hairsbreadth.    From Dictionary.com. 

A breath of cold air came in as the door opened a hair's-breadth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Monk's Hood]

Delicate to a hair's-breadth, hand and eye true and steady as steel.    From Wordnik.com.  [CHAPTER 15] Reference

He went to the edge and turned back just a hair's-breadth from the truth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference

Modesty Blaise had not changed her expression or posture by a hair's-breadth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Modesty Blaise]

He never stepped a hair's-breadth outside those regulations that hedge round the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adventures of a Despatch Rider] Reference

'Sdeath, if you love her a hair's-breadth beyond discretion, you must go no further.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Beaux-Stratagem] Reference

These were the men who fought the revenue officers and had the hair's-breadth escapes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Highways & Byways in Sussex] Reference

Jerry prompted, his fingers a hair's-breadth from the place where it had been broken off.    From Wordnik.com.  [Short Story: "Disarmed"] Reference

The dogs required their daily ration, and they got it -- measured out to a hair's-breadth.    From Wordnik.com.  [The South Pole~ From Madeira to the Barrier] Reference

Six rooms were lined up along a covered breezeway that provided a hair's-breadth of shade.    From Wordnik.com.  [Standoff]

Both of them won by a hair's-breadth and it seems to have scared the stuffing out of them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bob McDonnell- Not Running a 1989 Campaign] Reference

United States within a hair's-breadth of destruction, was to him fruitful in valuable lessons.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845] Reference

A pair of grinning jaws crashed against the outlet, and snapped within a hair's-breadth of his nose.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character] Reference

Thus Mytilene escaped destruction by a hair's-breadth, and Athens was saved from committing a great crime.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories from Thucydides] Reference

The other man gave a quick tug on the leather strap that secured it a hair's-breadth short of choking him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ship Of Magic]

Reverse the propositions, if you will, yet you will fail to mitigate, even by a hair's-breadth, the woe of it.    From Wordnik.com.  [HOUSEKEEPING IN THE KLONDIKE] Reference

He represented to me the imminent hazard of straying a hair's-breadth to the right or left of the orders of Robespierre!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844] Reference

A somewhat silly book, as he remembered, but an exciting one, filled with daredevil adventures and hair's-breadth escapes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine]

Is there but a hair's-breadth intervention of some invisible nerve, some slender web of imagination, between mirth and melancholy?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845] Reference

Skater after skater was left behind, often by a hair's-breadth margin of safety which evoked half-heard protests as they skimmed on.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Son of the City A Story of Boy Life] Reference

With youthful recklessness he raised the brim a hair's-breadth off the flint, and, in a moment, the Emperor was fifty feet above him.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character] Reference

No wonder; he had come within a hair's-breadth of losing his life, and he had been a very kind friend and a very dear companion to her.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861] Reference

His shot went wide of his target, which had been Ronnie's chest, but it came within a hair's-breadth of Doc before striking the counter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Standoff]

His extraordinary knowledge of the sun's position, to a hair's-breadth in Mr Turner's pictures, and minute of the day, is quite surprising.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV.] Reference

Within a hair's-breadth she had let him disappear.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lost Girl] Reference

Laugh not again, lest the hair's-breadth be wanting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Allan Quatermain] Reference

Go beyond them a hair's-breadth, and thou perishest. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII] Reference

For a space hast thou stood within a hair's-breadth of death.    From Wordnik.com.  [Allan Quatermain] Reference

Draw from it ever so much, it sinks not one hair's-breadth in its pure basin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Expositions of Holy Scripture Psalms] Reference

Between death and life, success and failure, what a hair's-breadth after all.    From Wordnik.com.  [Frenzied Finance Vol. 1: The Crime of Amalgamated] Reference

All my life seemed suddenly to hang on the point of a hair's-breadth of possibility.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life Everlasting; a reality of romance] Reference

Nothing ever tempted him a hair's-breadth out of the path he had been bred to walk in.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Market-Place] Reference

He is very resolute; and, in a matter of this kind, you could not move him a hair's-breadth.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Earth Trembled] Reference

I shall go mad some day, when no man looks for it; I am but a hair's-breadth on the hither side, even now.    From Wordnik.com.  [Theocritus Bion and Moschus Rendered into English Prose] Reference

But darling, if familiar with that form of address, must have been slumbering, for she never turned or moved a hair's-breadth or gave.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Arctic Prairies : a Canoe-Journey of 2,000 Miles in Search of the Caribou; Being the Account of a Voyage to the Region North of Aylemer Lake] Reference