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How to use split hairs in a sentence

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One side or the other can appeal and if there are errors in law, we all know how lawyers can split hairs on those issues.
Texans split hairs about the state's major cities in a way outsiders do not.
Opposition members can try to split hairs on this matter, but if there is a local tag line to the ad, it is considered a local ad, and I leave it at that.
Mr. Speaker, it is difficult to understand how a leader of a country like our Prime Minister, when looking at a case such as this, would want to split hairs, to try to divide it.
What they're trying to do right now is to split hairs in the copyright area and say you retain control, but assign the bare copyright in order to enable you to get international financing.
Assistant Commissioner, let's not split hairs here.
True to their recent form, the Liberals hummed and hawed, deliberated and split hairs until no one in this House or anywhere in Canada understood anything anymore about their confusing and shifting position.
Sometimes you need to split hairs to get things to work.
They even manage to split hairs about the word heirs.
Let's get everything sorted into the right drawers and not split hairs about subdividing it further yet.
I do not want to split hairs over a few details therefore.
Examples from Classical Literature
To split hairs of deterrence over confirmed social hyenas, is to furnish them with the last formula from which to tear things.
I do not wish to split hairs, to make fine distinctions, or set myself up as better than my neighbors.
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