Synonym: bewhisker, hair, hair's-breadth, hairsbreadth, sensory hair, vibrissa. Similar words: whiskers, whisk, whisk away, disk, risk, brisk, risky, frisk. Meaning: ['hwɪskə(r) /'wɪ-] 
n. 1. a very small distance or space 2. a long stiff hair growing from the snout or brow of most mammals as e.g. a cat. v. furnish with whiskers.
n. 1. a very small distance or space 2. a long stiff hair growing from the snout or brow of most mammals as e.g. a cat. v. furnish with whiskers. 
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1) Schmidt finished second, losing by a whisker in the final event.
2) They came within a whisker of being killed.
3) The Communist candidate lost by a whisker .
4) Unemployment is now a whisker away from three million.
5) She missed the first prize by a whisker.
6) He missed the first prize by a whisker.
7) Doctors say he came within a whisker of dying on the operating table.
8) She came within a whisker of taking a gold medal.
9) You escaped serious injury by a whisker,[http://sentencedict.com/whisker.html] so consider yourselves very lucky.
10) Twice now she had come within a whisker of death.
11) The buildings started a whisker away from the shoreline.
12) Davidson won the election by a whisker.
13) It was the Walrus by a whisker.
14) Goal of the week by a whisker[Sentencedict.com], it is Swindon's second at Bristol City.
15) I just barely qualified for admission by a whisker.
16) A new pet census showed that cats now outnumber dogs by a whisker .
17) Last time she raced against the Brazilian, she won by a whisker.
18) I've even taken an F-15 jet to within a whisker of the sound barrier.
19) Five months later, the two firms are within a whisker of agreeing on a deal.
20) And earlier this year Sir Charles escaped bankruptcy by a whisker as his debts soared to ￡4.6 million.
21) One of the difficulties in the early stages of this work was to find any reasonably reliable method of measuring whisker strengths.
22) Even abstention would have put the Government within a whisker of victory.
23) As the Monster waxes, so Jimbo wanes; total eclipse is a whisker away.
24) In a race that was ultimately won by a whisker, the Powell effect may even have made the difference for Bush.
25) We crowded round the table, straining our ears for the magic sounds, while Robert adjusted the cat's whisker.
26) He finished second in the 1988 Superstars, losing by a whisker in the final event.
27) The other close decision was when de Silva was within a whisker of being run out.
28) Henderson almost made it four in four as Guy Whittal failed by a whisker to get an edge to the next delivery.
29) Shares did well, up again yesterday to 555p, a whisker below their peak of 558p.
30) The Stock Market ended the day up almost 50 points and finished within a whisker of its all-time high.
More similar words: whiskers, whisk, whisk away, disk, risk, brisk, risky, frisk, frisky, briskly, obelisk, askew, hard disk, antiskid, casket, skein, sketch, basket, at the risk of, miniskirt, skewer, sketchy, run the risk of, skeleton, skeptic, sketchily, basketball, sketching, skeptical, sketchbook.