noun
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(chiefly in the plural) A narrow passage, especially a contracted part of a stream, lake, or sea; a strait connecting two bodies of water.
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the narrows of New York harbor
adjective
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Having a small width; not wide; having opposite edges or sides that are close, especially by comparison to length or depth.
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a narrow hallway
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Of little extent; very limited; circumscribed.
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Restrictive; without flexibility or latitude.
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a narrow interpretation
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Contracted; of limited scope; bigoted
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a narrow mind
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Having a small margin or degree.
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The Republicans won by a narrow majority.
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Limited as to means; straitened
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narrow circumstances
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Parsimonious; niggardly; covetous; selfish.
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Scrutinizing in detail; close; accurate; exact.
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Formed (as a vowel) by a close position of some part of the tongue in relation to the palate; or (according to Bell) by a tense condition of the pharynx; distinguished from wide.
Examples of narrow in a Sentence
He pointed to a set of narrow stairs.
Her dark hair was pulled back severely from a narrow face.
I see only what is in my narrow lane.
She crossed her heart as she pulled to the side of the narrow road to let a Jeep pass.
The steep and narrow road was far too dangerous for anything but slow caution.
Our eyes are capable of seeing only a narrow spectrum of light.
Narrow shoulders, rounded hips and a petite frame were distinctly feminine.
Narrow paths were shoveled through the drifts.
She found a narrow, rocky road and hopped from rock to road, surprised to see an older man leading a donkey pulling a cart ahead of her.
To the left was a tall narrow window, bare to the coldness of the room.
I'll narrow the search down some.
He too, however, occupies an equally narrow house at present.
Dressed in the seductive clothing of Hell, her body's gentle shape appeared voluptuous, her narrow shoulders exposed, her round hips and breasts enhanced.
Dan led them into a narrow hall and to another locked door.
Then a sudden turn brought them to a narrow gallery where the buggy could not pass.
We can narrow it down.
Carmen left Alex with the doe and ducked into the dairy, returning with a scoop of alfalfa pellets she distributed in the long narrow feed trough along the wall.
They had walked a mile or two towards home, when they came to the edge of a narrow and deep ravine.
Dean examined the ground for tracks but the water, which while shallow, in most places covered the width of the narrow passageway and obliterated any footprints.
They emerged from the shadow world and stood on a narrow, winding road.
At first they drove at a steady trot along the narrow road.
The collection of well-defined sites was tastefully arranged around a circular loop with about thirty camp sites on both the inside and outside of the narrow roadway.
Dusty materialized beside him, his gun roaring in the narrow hallway as he mowed down Jilian's men.
The whole sun appeared on the horizon and disappeared behind a long narrow cloud that hung above it.
The trail was narrow enough that she found herself running into his frame or leaning against him.
The streets are generally narrow and the houses built of mud.
He would perhaps have placed alder branches over the narrow holes in the ice, which were four or five rods apart and an equal distance from the shore, and having fastened the end of the line to a stick to prevent its being pulled through, have passed the slack line over a twig of the alder, a foot or more above the ice, and tied a dry oak leaf to it, which, being pulled down, would show when he had a bite.
The other was the mayor, a man with a thin sallow face and narrow beard.
As he hurried down the narrow plank catwalk atop the penstock, he caught sight of a woman stumbling toward him.
It consists of a narrow ridge some 320 m.
It ran into a narrow cleft which he had not seen before, and then through a long, dark passage which was barely large enough for a man's body.
It has a motor... an electric motor and he's on a narrow trail!
The four lawyers rode along, one behind another; for the pathway was narrow, and the mud on each side of it was deep.
The opening to the cave was only a narrow hole between two rocks.
It was very difficult to walk over, the ties were wide apart and so narrow that one felt as if one were walking on knives.
This is that portion, also, where in the spring, the ice being warmed by the heat of the sun reflected from the bottom, and also transmitted through the earth, melts first and forms a narrow canal about the still frozen middle.
He could also, by the gleam of bayonets visible through the smoke, make out moving masses of infantry and narrow lines of artillery with green caissons.
Only not quite my taste--he is so narrow, like the dining-room clock....
And so he did not like Zdrzhinski's tale, nor did he like Zdrzhinski himself who, with his mustaches extending over his cheeks, bent low over the face of his hearer, as was his habit, and crowded Rostov in the narrow shanty.
Esaul Lovayski the Third was a tall man as straight as an arrow, pale- faced, fair-haired, with narrow light eyes and with calm self- satisfaction in his face and bearing.
The three of them walked abreast along a narrow road consisting of no more than two bare strips of dirt in the grass.
Two continued walking, finding a narrow path in the dark and starting down it.
They slopped forward, feet sloshing the muddy floor, no longer trying to avoid the water that oozed in rivulets down the narrow passageway, back toward the entrance, now out of sight behind them.
Dean planned to spend his free time biking, but changed his mind when he saw the crowds in town and remembered the traffic that would clog the narrow roads.
It was roughly round with a narrow panhandle that was closest to the fortress.
Deidre's breath caught at the name scrolled across the narrow shoulders.
One of us has to walk the straight and narrow.
The lush Scottish Highlands around him were covered in a blanket of snow that stretched for miles, the white world interrupted only by a few narrow roads snaking in different directions.
The narrow black highway ribboned smoothly down hill under a canopy of trees.
She sank down against it when her vision grew narrow.