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
• 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
• After a meandering start to the new year, the index came within a whisker of that high in late January.
  — Zev Fima, CNBC, 7 Apr. 2026
• Twice Simeone has gone within a whisker of winning the Champions League.
  — Phil Hay, The Athletic, 22 Jan. 2025
• 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
• Trump's post likely is due to the fact that Kamala Harris came within a whisker of winning the presidency through a misfire.
  — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 16 Dec. 2024
• West Texas Intermediate came within a whisker of $85/barrel this week.
  — John Navin, Forbes, 23 Oct. 2021
• The researcher pointed to an October that is within a whisker of pre-pandemic activity.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 27 Oct. 2021
• Her Democratic opponent, who came within a whisker of beating her in 2022, was far outraising her on the money front.
  — Seth Klamann, The Denver Post, 9 June 2024
• Last month, the rate was within a whisker of triggering the Sahm Rule again, but the December unemployment decline moved it away from danger.
  — Bill Stone, Forbes, 12 Jan. 2025
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The precious metal continues to appreciate and came within a whisker of $2,790 per ounce earlier on Wednesday.
  — Royston Wild, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024
• 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
• But Finns have been expecting something of the sort since World War II, when the Soviet Union came within a whisker of conquering them.
  — Mark Sappenfield, Christian Science Monitor, 20 July 2025
• Suriname, Bolivia’s opponents (and fellow South Americans, geographically speaking), came within a whisker of qualifying directly from the Concacaf region.
  — Jack Lang, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2026
• Worst to First Riding high after winning the American League pennant in a historic worst-to-first season, the Jays came within a whisker of winning the World Series, bowing in a seven-game classic against the Los Angeles Dodgers.
  — Dan Schlossberg, Forbes.com, 3 Jan. 2026