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How to use narrowly in a sentence

35 example sentences · adverb

Narrowly means in a narrow manner; without flexibility or latitude. Example: “I eyed him narrowly.”

Examples of narrowly by meaning

adverbIn a narrow manner; without flexibility or latitude.

  • I eyed him narrowly.
  • They regarded the new idea rather narrowly.
  • There is now such an immense "microliterature" on hepatics that, beyond a certain point I have given up trying to integrate (and evaluate) every minor paper published—especially narrowly floristic papers.1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill....

adverbClosely; by a narrow margin.

  • They narrowly escaped collision.
  • The visitors had not managed an away win in the top flight since the final day of last season, but Mauro Formica set the tone in the second minute with a rasping 25-yard drive which flew narrowly wide.2011 October 29, Neil Johnston, “Norwich 3 - 3 Blackburn”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 15 Jul 2020
  • The House narrowly approved a rescissions package from the White House that aims to cancel billions in unspent funds from the prior fiscal year, much of which would not have been spent otherwise.2018 June 7, Ashley Killough, “House approves package that would cut $1 billion in spending”, in CNN, archived from the original on 15 Jun...

More sentences with narrowly

  • They narrowly survived, but the heat is on.From the entry survive
  • A few years ago he'd narrowly escaped death at the hands of bomb-throwing Wiccanists.2011, Chris Moriarty, The Inquisitor's Apprentice. From the entry Wiccanist
  • Erick ducked as a drakerider zoomed narrowly overhead, its firebreath incinerating the very air inches above him.2006, Blake Garrett Anderson, “Shattered Ice”, in The Dragonheroes (The Birth of Terralax; 1), [Bradenton, Fla.]: Booklocker.com, Inc.…. From the entry firebreath
  • "I work for the betterment of everybody, not just some narrowly defined national interest, Pam.2005, Charles Stross, Accelerando. From the entry agalmics
  • In Halfway Reach we mis-fetched and narrowly missed colliding with a fast moving freighter.1989, Dick Durham, The Last Sailorman, page 85. From the entry misfetch
  • Conidiogenous cells holoblastic, monoblastic, cylindrical to narrowly ampulliform, straight to slightly curved, 7.5–37.5 × 2.5–5 μm, reddish brown to pale brown.2016 February 25, “Naming Potentially Endangered Parasites: Foliicolous Mycobiota of Dimorphandra wilsonii, a Highly Threatened Brazilian…. From the entry monoblastic
  • This ad shows a daughter narrowly escaping a "mom jeans" fiasco with the help of eBay's shopping app.2014 July 24, Ann-Christine Diaz, “Rewind: From Mom Jeans to Musicals, a Look Back at eBay Advertising”, in Ad Age. From the entry mom jeans
  • Mesocoxal cavities usually subcircular, narrowly to moderately widely separated, usually open laterally but occasionally closed by confluent meso- and metaventrites.2014, Richard A.B. Leschen, Morphology and Systematics: Phytophaga, page 203. From the entry metaventrite
  • Those who champion women's maternal role too often define it narrowly in the context of service—to one's child, husband, or God.2004, Daphne de Marneffe, “The ‘Problem’ of Maternal Desire”, in Maternal Desire: On Children, Love, and the Inner Life, New York, N.Y.…. From the entry maternal
  • Rivera: I do not think the definition of journalist is as narrowly construed these days as perhaps it was once.1989, ASNE: Proceedings of the 1989 Convention of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, page 13. From the entry cubbyhole
  • I have just narrowly avoided having a buggering.1987, Bruce Robinson, Withnail and I. From the entry buggering
  • Cocculinellids have a narrowly elliptical aperture and subcentral apex.1987, Fauna of Australia, volume 5, page 663. From the entry cocculinellid
  • The men narrowly missed death when the swiftboat in front of theirs took a direct hit from a Communist rocket-propelled grenade.1973, Glenn MacDonald, Report or distort?, page 116. From the entry swiftboat
  • Finally, the acumina of all the narrowly lanceolate leaves of both species tend to be straight rather than curved.1960, Svensk botanisk tidskrift, page 385. From the entry acumen
  • Leaves in a basal rosette and cauline, 0.5–7.5 (-9.5) × 0.1–2.2 cm; subsessile; blade narrowly lanceolate to elliptic, margin subentire to shallowly sinuate-dentate.2015, Warren L. Wagner, Peter C. Hoch, James L. Zarucchi, “The correct name in Oenothera for Gaura drummondii (Onagraceae)”, in PhytoKeys…. From the entry subentire
  • A trader may underdiversify by focusing too narrowly on a small number of underlying securities, as well as using too few types of options strategies.2013, M. Thomsett, Options for Risk-Free Portfolios, →ISBN. From the entry underdiversify
  • She stood there dumbfounded as the door swung open and banged against the inside wall, narrowly missing her.¶ I did that, she thought.2011, Nate Kenyon, StarCraft Ghost: Spectres, →ISBN, page 140. From the entry teek
  • Everton defender Distin then demonstrated neat footwork to evade a succession of challenges inside the area before sending a rising, angled effort narrowly off target.2011 October 1, Phil McNulty, “Everton 0 - 2 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 06 Jan 2012. From the entry footwork
  • Gokdeniz Karadeniz caused Spurs problems with his raids down the right and Alan Kasaev fired narrowly over from one of his pull-backs.2011 November 3, Chris Bevan, “Rubin Kazan 1 - 0 Tottenham”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 25 Feb 2021. From the entry up the ante
  • At Xigang (Hsikang), people commonly use the term kua-hiuⁿ (T.), as Allio does, the term jiao being reserved for the Daoist rituals narrowly speaking.2003, Donald S. Sutton, “Notes”, in Steps of Perfection: Exorcistic Performers and Chinese Religion in Twentieth-Century Taiwan, Harvard…. From the entry Hsikang
  • This volume is thus not a narrowly defined treatment of the Code of Professional Responsibility but rather represents a "common law" gloss on it.1979, American Bar Foundation., Annotated code of professional responsibility, page ix. From the entry gloss
  • It is a statement, not a criticism, that the whole conception of religion seems to have been too narrowly individualistic, sabbatarian, bibliolatrical and other-worldly.1972, Llafur, volume 1/2, page 11. From the entry bibliolatrical
  • But they can excel on specific, more narrowly defined tasks, such as summarizing conversations, answering patient questions as a health care chatbot, and gathering data in smart devices.2025 April 13, Stephen Ornes, “Small Language Models Are the New Rage, Researchers Say. Larger models can pull off a wider variety of…. From the entry SLM
  • And that is precisely the point—frames have the power to obscure the bigger picture, to narrowly and misleadingly define the problem, and to make imaginable only certain solutions.2015, Kevin K. Kumashiro, Bad Teacher! How Blaming Teachers Distorts the Bigger Picture, page 43. From the entry commonsensical
  • She wrote in small, barely legible handwriting on blank sheets or on the most narrowly ruled writing-paper she could find, cramming as much as possible on to the page.2012, Orlando Figes, Just Send Me Word: A True Story of Love and Survival in the Gulag, London: Allen Lane, →ISBN, page 69. From the entry writing-paper
  • The opening exchanges were rich in quality and a wonderful passage of build-up play from Spurs ended with Crouch meeting Hutton's right-wing cross but his effort was narrowly off-target.2011 January 15, Phil McNulty, “Tottenham 0 - 0 Man Utd”, in BBC. From the entry off-target
  • Pileus 1.1-3.5 cm long, 0.5-2.3 cm broad, 3-4 mm thick near the base, broadly attached, narrowly eaves-like to flaballate, surface white, zonate, glaborous, subgranularly tuberculose near the base.1993, Zhishu Bi, The Macrofungus Flora of China's Guangdong Province, Chinese University Press, →ISBN, page 224. From the entry subgranularly
  • Darling Ray, ¶ Having narrowly escaped being consumed by flesh-eating maggots (spawned by the world of television, rather than the dead-body-munching kind), I’ve fled to Majorca (spa was too spenny).2009, Samantha Scott-Jeffries, “Heels on Wheels” (chapter 6), in I Do, I Do, I Do, London: Little Black Dress, →ISBN, page 98. From the entry spenny
  • Also, the Constitutional Court has tried to reduce impunity in cases of human rights abuses by narrowly interpreting the legal competence of military justice to investigate military and police officers.2003, Rodrigo Uprimny, “The constitutional court and control of presidential extraordinary powers in Colombia”, in Democratization…. From the entry competence

Meaning of narrowly

  1. adverb In a narrow manner; without flexibility or latitude.
  2. adverb Closely; by a narrow margin.

Full definition of narrowly

Questions about narrowly in a sentence

How do you use narrowly in a sentence?
Narrowly is used as an adverb. For example: “I eyed him narrowly.”
What is a short sentence with narrowly?
“I eyed him narrowly.”
What does narrowly mean?
Narrowly means in a narrow manner; without flexibility or latitude.

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