How to Use within a whisker of in a Sentence

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• The hot streak has vaulted them into fourth place in the Pac-12 and within a whisker of the top two.
  — Joe Freeman, oregonlive, 5 May 2023
• Both at some point come within a whisker of catastrophe.
  — John Domini, Los Angeles Times, 27 Apr. 2022
• After many years of failing even to make it out of committee, the bill came within a whisker of enactment last year.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 25 Jan. 2021
• Royce Newman off balance with a power rush and came within a whisker of hitting Love’s right arm on a pass play that was nullified by a penalty.
  — Eric Branch, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Aug. 2022
• West Texas Intermediate came within a whisker of $85/barrel this week.
  — John Navin, Forbes, 23 Oct. 2021
• That coincided with a tumble in growth stocks, dragging the Nasdaq index to within a whisker of a bear market, down almost 20% from its November peak.
  — James MacKintosh, WSJ, 1 Feb. 2022
• On this Friday night, the Eagles put on a torrid fourth-quarter surge that came within a whisker of a monument victory before a buzzer-beating three-pointer sealed their fate.
  — Chip Souza, Arkansas Online, 25 Dec. 2021
• The researcher pointed to an October that is within a whisker of pre-pandemic activity.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 27 Oct. 2021
• And demand for European assets is so high that the currency is within a whisker of being more expensive than the dollar for the first time since funding pressures jumped earlier this year.
  — Fortune, 11 Aug. 2020
• Given the tumult of the group stage - and of coming within a whisker of being eliminated at an unfathomable early point - perhaps colliding with a frenemy is just what the Americans need to climb out of their funk.
  — Steven Goff, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 26 Dec 2024