narrow
Example Sentences
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These convoys also had to battle the polar ice, which crept south in winter, narrowing the sea lanes between the icepack and the German bases in Norway.
The team narrowed the search from seven counties to a small area of roughly 50 square feet.
From Science Daily
Several witnesses said the event space in the basement of the establishment, where the fire began, was connected with the ground floor by only a staircase, which some described as "narrow".
From Barron's
“We have a narrowing prosperity on both Wall Street and Main Street, and it probably does create a vulnerability. A minority of the participants are accounting for most of the results,” Ablin said.
Evacuation was "very difficult", Emma and Albane said, because the escape route out of the room they were in was "narrow" and the stairs leading outside were "even narrower".
From BBC
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