He escaped being run over by a hair's breadth.

That Space, as our mathematicians have it, is spoken of as having three dimensions, which one may call Length, Breadth, and Thickness, and is always definable by reference to three planes, each at right angles to the others.

We escaped death by a hair's breadth.

Divide its length and breadth by ten.

What manner o' thing is your crocodile?" "It is shap'd, sir, like itself, and it is as broad as it hath breadth; it is just so high as it is, and moves with its own organs. It lives by that which nourisheth it, and the elements once out of it, it transmigrates." "What color is it of?" "Of its own color too." "'Tis a strange serpent." "'Tis so. And the tears of it are wet."

I missed the train by a hair's breadth.

The village lay in a valley about half a mile in breadth.

He is looked up to for his breadth of mind.

What is the breadth of this road?

Arise and walk through the land in the length, and in the breadth thereof: for I will give it to thee.