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How to use handbreadth in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word handbreadth? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
The rock had interstices and eroded places through which a handbreadth of trail snaked, mostly along the side closest to the water.
A man in a suit opened the door a handbreadth and peered out, without showing a glimmer of recognition.
The stasis should be carried out by the assistant, preferably gripping firmly around the arm a handbreadth above the wrist.
The tourniquet is positioned a handbreadth above the site for venipuncture.
Examples from Classical Literature
A handbreadth of basis is enough for me, if it be actually basis and ground!
By what looked like a handbreadth, we cleared each other, and the race continued.
The room is so richly decorated that scarce a handbreadth of the surface is free from ornament.
The long table presented a stately appearance, for there was not a handbreadth which was not covered with a dish or a bowl.
And he made for it a border of an handbreadth round about, and made a golden rim to the border thereof round about.
Behold, my days are as a handbreadth before Thee, and my life as nothing in Thy sight.
But the great arrow had pierced right through her shoulder, and stood out a handbreadth upon the other side.
Two 5-mm working ports were placed in the right and left lower quadrants, about one handbreadth lateral to the umbilicus and 3 cm caudally.
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