How To Use Arrow In A Sentence

The soldier fired the rifle through a narrow aperture in a pile of sandbags.
And its world was a narrow swamp, a grey, nubiferous environment, where it lived its contented, active, idyllic, almost mindless existence. The Voyage of the Space Beagle
Having had some narrow escapes the priest was eventually arrested as a recusant priest and was tried by revolutionary Court.
Its independence may encourage it to pursue a course of narrow self-interest rather than the public interest. Financial Markets, Institutions and Money
Before reaching the main square, the vehicle swerved left and entered a narrow side street filled with people, most of them in uniform. Somewhere East of Life

Thousands of householders are being urged to redesign their gardens to halt the rapid decline of sparrows and starlings. Times, Sunday Times
It was not just established states that were eager narrowly to define the right of self-determination as a right end colonial status.
The arrows indicate the beginning of the grace note figure and the placement of each note in the triplet figure for the left hand.
Since the path was so narrow that there was no way to reverse, he had no option but to continue moving forward.
This can not be done through any system of methods, neither are narrow interests or unexacting tasks sufficient to arouse all that the soul has now to give. The Unfolding Life A Study of Development with Reference to Religious Training
By the term contracted foot, otherwise known as hoof-bound, is indicated a condition in which the foot, more especially the posterior half of it, is, or becomes, narrower from side to side than is normal. Diseases of the Horse's Foot
But if there was no national style, there were local variations such as the monasteries and churches at Jarrow and Monkwearmouth in the seventh century. Early medieval architecture: a story of castles and churches
These include sweet cicely, beebalm, yarrow, purple coneflowers and others.
A word is no arrow, but it can pierce the heart.
The curriculum was too narrow and too rigid.
The river up which we came after leaving the Helmund, is fully equal to that in size; it is very rapid: the ravine is very narrow, occasionally widening into swardy spots. Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries
Upon these, and along the walls, which in most castles were topped by a parapet and a kind of embrasure called crennels, the defenders of the castle were stationed during a siege, and from thence discharged arrows, darts, stones, and every kind of annoyance they could procure, upon their enemies. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 (of 2)
The percentages of aneuploid bone marrow leukocytes were higher than those of aneuploid sperm for the two upper THH dose groups and for the positive control group.
First he was writing, then he was hiking, then he went to Argentina to clear his head and drive along the coast (a two mile narrow strip overlooking the intercoastal waterway, hardly scenic). Sanford visiting family in Sullivan's Island
The room was an attic, ten feet square, lighted only by a skylight, its sole furniture a narrow iron bedstead, a chair, and a washhand-stand with one game leg. Down and Out in Paris and London
Our pupils and students leave schools and universities after an incredibly narrow diet of education compared with their international counterparts. Times, Sunday Times
And about 50 meters into the canyon at this narrow section, I encountered a place where I was standing on top of a chalkstone with about a ten-foot elevation drop. CNN Transcript May 8, 2003
Pasture lands and meadow lands are often greatly improved by replowing and harrowing in order to break up the turf that forms and to admit air more freely into the soil. Agriculture for Beginners Revised Edition
He won by a narrow margin.
Trash and harrowingly low budgets are the point of a Versus movie, as the genre's pioneers well knew back when they were churning out Abbott And Costello Meet Frankenstein/The Invisible Man/The Mummy. Cowboys & Aliens: the Versus movie without Versus in its name
It is with narrow-minded people as with narrow-necked bottle; the less they have in them the more noise they make in pouring out.
The original building consisted of a wide perimeter block bisected by a pair of transverse wings to form three narrow internal patios.
I saw wheel tracks to the right, crossed by similar tracks back again to the road, and I guessed that the postilion had intended to drive his horses down the byroad, but having found it too rough or too narrow had been compelled to return, even at the cost of loss of time in backing. Humphrey Bold A Story of the Times of Benbow
Was there ever such a man?" said Mr. Mordacks to himself, as he rode back to Flamborough against the bitter wind, after "fettling" the affairs of the poor Carroways, as well as might be for the present. Mary Anerley : a Yorkshire Tale
Bob squeezed his muscular shoulders into the narrow confines of the top turret.
Bones were snapped, skin was torn, and arrows were poking through chests and backs - black arrows.
The oil terminal is in the narrow strait that separates the island from the mainland.
The shell surface is distinctly annulated along its sides, with broad annulae that are separated by deep narrow grooves.
And the chances of that happening on the Down Under tour have narrowed due to England's injury crisis.
He came out of the thick woods into a small meadow, his arrow on his bow ready to be shot at anything that moved.
Adhering egg clusters along the spines are covered by thin, gelatinous sheath; tips of spines are separated from each other, with slight but distinct subterminal narrowing.
We're looking at a very narrow portion of AECL, which is commercial services, which provides knowledge-based services to the industry. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
The company has an almost fetishistic attachment to narrowcasting.
If the ventral curvature of tail is real, then that, in concert with its extremely narrow scaupulae, suggests that a more appropriate functional analog would be found in arboreal chameleons.
Not to be outdone, many historians came to consider scholars trained in economics to be overly narrow, inattentive to historical context, and interpretively reductionistic.
Richard and his friends, he reminds us constantly, are wealthy, beautiful, aloof from the slings and arrows of dowdiness and paying bills and slogging it out in monotonous jobs.
Fleet Street was choked with red-headed folk, and Pope's Court looked like a coster's orange barrow.
Occasionally, courts admitted shopbooks as evidence but the exception normally was narrowly applied to circumstances in which the scrivener was not available to testify.
The arrowheads demarcate the two antibody positive bands with estimated M r of 43 and 45K.
Sparrows, chickadees, woodpeckers, and an assortment of other creatures were awake and bustling that summer morning.
Barrow had taken an oath to study divinity when he was admitted as a fellow, and, after briefly studying medicine, he began studying divinity again.
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The neck (collum mallei) is the narrow contracted part just beneath the head; below it, is a a prominence, to which the various processes are attached. X. The Organs of the Senses and the Common Integument. 1d. 3. The Auditory Ossicles
The sound of the human whistle, like that in the most primitive instrumental forms - a whistle fashioned from a hollow tube of wood or straw - is made by the turbulence generated in an airstream at the narrow orifice formed by pursing the lips.
She narrowly missed out on gold to Pippa Funnell after knocking down a fence in the showjumping.
We were crawling along the narrow steel lattice of the bridge.
The Little Sparrow," "Je Ne Regrette Rien", the tragic fate of her boxer-lover, do we really need to crank that victrola one more time -- haven't we had enough? Paris Then, Paris Now: James Wolcott
My favorite load for turkeys is Beman ICS Hunter arrows fletched with Bonning Blazer vanes and tipped with Vortex Pro-Series 100 grain 2.25 broadheads. Which load do you use for turkey
That he sloped off during an Eton v Harrow match to buy a trumpet, which cost £1, may not have been what his school and his parents intended, but it set him on a course which over the years has brought joy and instruction to many.
Peche was able to create this dreamworld by breaking up a wall with a row of narrow windows, by giving the illusion of height with columns and pilasters, and by blurring the borders of a room.
Make sure you drive between those narrow walls.
He balanced precariously on the narrow window - ledge.
And after Vikarna's flight, Satruntapa, unable to repress his ire, began to afflict Partha, that obstructer of foes and achiever of super-human feats, by means of a perfect shower of arrows. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7
In the bright sunlight she had to narrow her eyes.
The fear of God is not the beginning of wisdom. The fear of God is the death of wisdom. Clarence Darrow
A narrow track wound steeply up through dense forest.
This is a hospital test where a narrow tube with a light and lens on the end is passed down the trachea and into the lung.
Global labor arbitrage is hard at work narrowing the international wage gap among educated workers. Wages Move Toward Equilibrium, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
The Constitution has a very narrow definition of treason: Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. May 2005
I feel pleasure in dwelling on the recollections of childhood, before misfortune had tainted my mind, and changed its bright visions of extensive usefulness into gloomy and narrow reflections upon self. Chapter 1
A Hindu coparcenary is a much narrower body than a joint family. Archive 2005-12-01
Suddenly the silence was interrupted by the sound of arrows whizzing and striking soft objects.
Finally the competition went to sudden death, when the Baltinglass team missed winning the title narrowly.
Bumper to bumper we proceeded, the road narrowed and things became hairy.
This our last answer we send unto hir with the Lord Ruthven and Laird of Pittarrow; requiring of hir Grace, in plane wordis, to signifie unto us what houpe we myeht have of hir favouris toward the outsetting of religioun. The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6)
The dressmaker gathered the cloth to the narrowest part of the waist.
The winds associated with this broader wake spawn a narrow eastward countercurrent that draws warm water from west to east.
With superb boatmanship he threaded the narrow, tortuous channel which no craft larger than a whaleboat could negotiate, until the shoals and patches showed seaward and they grounded on the quiet, rippling beach. A SON OF THE SUN
Martine summoned one of them with the press of an illuminated, arrowed button.
If you have it in a narrow bed between wall and paving, life will be so much simpler and pruning will be a quick, painless job. Times, Sunday Times
Along with this, the arena's main concourse is narrow and crammed with useless kiosks selling everything from caramel apples to nachos to kettle corn, making the walk to the one smoking area something of a slow death march for the nicotine needy. From the Floor: A Happy Slab of Sandwich Meat
As she drove along the narrow, winding country lanes she and an oncoming coach, carrying teenagers to school in Harrogate, slowed so both vehicles could safely pass.
And when euery manne hath throwen his darte, or shotte his arrowe: whilest the beast is troubled and amased with the stripes, thei steppe in to her and slea her. The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie
Most of the conceptual distinctions which have been used to narrow the scope of such protection have been applied to them.
To perform well it has to be tightly targeted to cope with quite a narrow band of frequencies.
It was a driveway that narrowed at the road, then widened as gracefully as stemware.
Other locals include yarrow, pussytoes, mallow, cudweed, meadowsweet, and chickweed.
The pass gets quite narrow towards the east.
On a mountain bike, you have to have narrow bars or you'll catch yourself on a tree.
Pulling out of Queen's Park, heading towards Maida Vale through the smart terraces, it was all very nice, until at the Harrow Road a big gang of bus enthusiasts came on.
After a particularly harrowing battle where the squad is able to overcome a Nazi ambush Zab is asked about what happened and can barely remember the event. Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat
The book devotes 30 pages to cucurbits, from giant pumpkins through marrows, zucchinis and cucumbers to back-scratching loofahs.
I had taken Jason to the Roseland headland in the Fal estuary by the green-painted East Narrows navigation buoy - due east and one mile from the docks.
In addition, as Streamline is an arrowless, lighter, lower-volume set, it delivers significant operational benefits to customers through savings in dialyses, water, heparin, smaller dialyzer size, supplies, and waste disposal. Undefined
A black coat-tailed drongo like a late night dinner guest is chased across the water by two enraged house sparrows.
The chemotherapeutic equivalent of that surgical assault—of eviscerating the body and replacing it with an implant—was a procedure known as autologous bone marrow transplant, or ABMT, which roared into national and international prominence in the mid-1980s. The Emperor of All Maladies
Our lives become narrow, blinkered, limited. Life Without Work
For example, the right shift key is the same size as the standard letter keys, and lots of typists will go crazy hitting the next-door up arrow instead.
The common characteristic of criminal summary procedure in a narrow sense is the exemption or substantial reduction of courtroom investigation procedure.
To be successful, you need to keep an eye on what you want to achieve and not on what you already have. Just like while aiming, you focus on the target and not the tip of the arrow . Dr Roopleen
Hundreds of parishioners were working with bare hands, shovels and harrows, extending the church by burrowing out a crypt.
I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life!
This left him treading a narrow path along which private control and economic incentives might be preserved and yet society could obtain its full due by the complete expropriation of Ricardian rent.
Disk before Tuesday, the U.S. stock index futures showed a narrow range of vibration patterns.
After four hours afloat, the gorge narrowed to some two hundred yards. Indian Balm - Travels in the Southern Subcontinent
Mid morning a young girl arrives after a harrowing journey, bewildered by her new surroundings.
When the cup of human life is so overflowing with woe and pain and misery, it seems to me a narrow dilettanteism or downright charlatanism to devote one's self to petty or bizarre problems which can have no relation to human happiness, and to prate of self-satisfaction and self-expression. Woman Her Sex and Love Life
It also has a narrow canal (the urachus) which serves to remove the urine of the foetus; in fact the subsequently formed bladder takes its origin from a dilation of the urachus. The Veterinarian
The action on a Harrow mosque again saw the chunky thugs in Lenin's term comprehensively outnumbered and outmanoeuvred Sonic Truth
There was widespread destruction on the island of Sant’ Elena, where an even larger disaster was narrowly averted by when the twister nearly struck a crowded vaporetto moored at a pontile. A Tornado in Venice
The road continues as straight as an arrow.
The long rear part is the opisthosoma, which can be further divided into a broad flattened pre-abdomen consisting of seven segments, and a narrower and more cylindrical post-abdomen of only five segments.
In a moment," Eric said, "the wheelbarrow got bowsed over, when I managed, worse luck, to fall underneath; and then, finding I couldn't get up again, I hailed you, brother. Fritz and Eric The Brother Crusoes
Major producers of military and civilian outdoor tent pole bracket, leisure travel with the climbing pole, ski pole, pole competition with products such as the arrow.
Entry is gained from an alley on the side, so narrow that it can at best take a single car.
What began in 1968 as a Beltway junkie's labor of love has turned into an authoritative collection of whistle-stopping campaign slogans and vicious slings and arrows of partisan attacks that stretches all the way back to the Founding Fathers (who came up with terms like "electioneer" and the party "ticket"). How to Sound Presidential
Other findings include disseminated intravascular coagulation, bone marrow aplasia with leukopenia and thrombocytopenia, elevated liver enzyme values, hypocalcemia, hyponatremia and rhabdomyolysis. Colchicine Poisoning
Abaft the hatchway was a door on the starboard side which I opened, and found a narrow dark passage. The Frozen Pirate
the narrowness of the road
The country's rail capacity is squeezing into the narrowest straits in its history. Times, Sunday Times
The formerly semicircular forestage that connected the audience to the actors became a straight and narrow apron that divided the two groups.
Twice he declined a pot at goal and opted to kick to the corner despite defending a narrow three-point lead.
Needless to say, this has led to additional burden on the locality's narrow roads.
`Oh hullo, Darrow," I said as if I had encountered him by chance at a garden party. ULTIMATE PRIZES
It completely inures you from the slings and arrows of outrageous bloggers, creditors, film investors and divorce attorneys. Mark Morford: Mel Gibson's Top 10 Tips For Sexist Monsters
The harpoon is the weapon usually employed, though sometimes they are caught in strong nets stretched across the mouths of rivers or the narrow arms of lakes. The Forest Exiles The Perils of a Peruvian Family in the Wilds of the Amazon
But oft while she taketh avisement of flight, ere she taketh her flight, an arrow flieth through her body, and therefore she faileth of her purpose, as Gregory saith. Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus
There's an edgy, youthful feel to the sprawling stone downtown, where gaggles of short-haired, punky students walk narrow, walled streets.
The hours of liberty are long, full of wonder and narrow escapes, precautions, hidden devices and daring.
Over the course of the year, he's almost hit on the head by a sparrowhawk, gets a whiff of "bad badger breath" when three cubs cannon into his lap, and watches two stoats massacre a screaming leveret, their normally creamy bibs "the colour of a slaughterman's apron". A Year in the Woods: The Diary of a Forest Ranger by Colin Elford
A search for a suitable bone marrow or umbilical cord donor for Garrett is under way.
This was Gerard's account of the Cucumber, while of the Cucumber Pompion, which was evidently our Vegetable Marrow, and of which he has described and figured the variety which we now call the Custard Marrow, he says, "it maketh a man apt and ready to fall into the disease called the colericke passion, and of some the felonie. The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare
Supporting smaller farms also avoids mass consolidation which narrows the gene pool and renders crops less resilient against disease. Times, Sunday Times
A narrow track led to it, through the gaps, slantwise, from the gate of the mistal. The Three Sisters
The 2,000 arrows and nearly 150 longbows found on board reflect the continuing reliance on traditional methods of anti-personnel artillery.
He now writes from a desk at one end of a narrow room, walled on one side by windows looking east over the city. Times, Sunday Times
Blend together the arrowroot and one tablespoon of the orange juice and set aside.
There is a man, approximately my age, attractive in a scruffy, academic sort of way brown corduroy jacket, one of those narrow, stripey, many-coloured scarves that men are wearing this season coiled around his neck, tufty brown hair, sitting across the aisle to my right on a strapontin. Power, corruption and lies
What he paints is a harrowing image of Hell. Times, Sunday Times
Drummer Ste Barrow is frantically searching for a replacement having just split the skin on his bass drum.
This harrowing film pieces the story together. Times, Sunday Times
The jacket seemed baggier than usual, the trousers narrower. THE GOSPEL MAKERS
As its top cooled and contracted, it developed narrow crevices more than fifty feet deep.
Supermarket trolleys are well-known for their irritating tendency to veer from the straight and narrow, apparently at their own whim.
Both antihistamines and anticholinergics can have anticholinergic side effects, including dry mouth, urinary retention, blurred vision, and exacerbation of narrow-angle glaucoma.
Their characteristic form is that of a long, deep, narrow bay with steep rock walls and basined floor. The Elements of Geology
Despite this presidential warning shot, the Senate narrowly approved both amendments.
Single leaf from a Missal, in Latin Germany, Hamburg, shortly before 1381 Illuminated by Meister Bertram von Minden The young people hawking are fashionably dressed: the youth wears a red pourpoint with a dagged hem, a particularly tight chaperon, narrow belt, and open shoes. Fashion in Art: Medieval France and the Netherlands
There, the mason had to lie on his stomach in a narrow groove, working his tools horizontally, chips and limestone dust dropping in front of his face.
Worse than that there is a right turn arrow painted on that one lane, for a side road going off to the right.
This happened while we searched for a doe I arrowed the night before. Field & Stream
Cadfael found something so significant in that arrow-straight progress towards the church that he followed, candidly curious and officiously helpful, and finding Rafe of Coventry standing hesitant by the parish altar, looking round him at the multiplicity of chapels contained in transepts and chevet, directed him with blunt simplicity to the one he was looking for. The Hermit of Eyton Forest
It gives meaning to a sparrow's flight beyond the banqueting hall. Times, Sunday Times
In paying homage to his political spoilsman and teacher, he had only narrowly been spared a potentially disastrous appointment.
Located on a narrow peninsula, Yehliu features special terrain and geologic landscape from wave erosion , rock weathering, and crustal movement.
The recalls for Barrow and Beveridge are just reshuffling.
The William Haggas-trained filly was sent off favourite on her debut in a maiden race at Salisbury, but ran green and only got going late before being narrowly beaten into third.
He serves short ribs, potatoes, fried bone marrow, corn puree and pickled sea beans glasswort. Top Chef All Stars Ep. 12: A Final Five!
A narrow mountain path crooks through the forest.
In this example, liver cells are dying individually arrows from injury by viral hepatitis.
One was an aristocrat educated at Harrow and Cambridge, the other a self-made man from small-town South India.
For fast jet pilots, a stint with the Red Arrows is the highlight of their careers.
I am just wondering -- my mom has multiple myeloma, which is a bone-marrow cancer. CNN Transcript - Larry King Live: Curing What Ails You in the New Millennium - January 4, 2000
It was so cold that he felt frozen to the marrow.
He is now pursuing his clinical and research interests in diabetes and metabolism at the Clinical Research Centre, Harrow.
However, take your boat up past the cages and through the narrows, and the loch opens up into an even more spectacular vista.
Has a narrow strip of sandy beach as well as rocky areas with coves of shingle or sand beaches. Collins Traveller - Mallorca
There follows a succession of adventures, dangers, narrow escapes from death, and general blows of malign Fate.
Athena, disguised like a Trojan, finds the archer Pandarus to shoot an arrow at Menelaus.
There are several dings and dents in the body where the guitar has suffered the slings and arrows of a curious public.
A wheelbarrow pusher can complete a return journey of 30 m in each direction whilst a shoveller is filling a 50-litre barrow. 1.1. Survey of local conditions and site reconnaissance
To get the image of this stretch into your head, imagine a road slightly narrower than Turl Street.
He is a conservative in this strict and narrow sense.
The newly hewn steps were too narrow to tread in comfort.
The Doctor's harrowing account of the orthopaedic centres for polio and landmine victims was punctuated with the earthy humour of the people he deals with.
The almost rural surroundings change before you know it and you are soon in the midst of a much older town on a road gone narrow as you pass through Ulsoor with its temples, shops that sell puja essentials, books, clothes and Primus stoves.
If you can take advantage of their poor judgement, you can gradually narrow the gap.
A narrow gorge opens upon a semicircular hollow lined with ochraceous or ferruginous matter; in fact, part of the filon, which sends off fibrils in all directions. The Land of Midian
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The "Bath Road," for example, in parts, is as flat and well-formed a surface as one could hope to find, even in France itself, but at times it degenerates into a mere narrow, guttery alley, especially in its passage through some of the The Automobilist Abroad
The mouth of the cave was so narrow that we had to edge in.
The decongestants, such as phenylephrine, and pseudoephedrine, produce a narrowing of blood vessels.
He looked down to see an arrow deep within his vitals.
It is very important that the arrows are ‘matched’ to the archer and their bow.
I offered only a narrow flight corridor that was far from any sensitive areas. Times, Sunday Times
One particularly macabre statue of Saint Sebastian, arrows poking out of every limb, was given centre stage.
After a very harrowing landing (and much vomit in the cabin of the plane I'm sure) that comes up just a few feet short of the overpass, he pops an emergency hatch and amscrays.
It is primarily a travel and entertainment card, so its retail outlets base is much narrower than that of its competitors.
After following a narrow gravel road for about 200 metres we took off down a side track.
The tug eased into the narrow docking space.
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The country here is an expanse of smoothish tilted slopes, big, empty, and lonely, and crossed (at about the middle point) by a strange narrow gut or gully, up which the railway once ran to Montauban. The Old Front Line
However, when pigs are farrowed in crates and the sow's excrement is passed directly into a pit, the pigs may not receive an adequate supply of iron from this source.
I dinna know all the words, but it says, ‘Six bird houses smile at great birds, green fire is in the sunup, arrow brings’” — she frowned, seeking the English word — “‘brings little hope birds.’” Tai-Pan
The little sparrows have the answer to that. Times, Sunday Times
One-third of the island's population converges daily into Fort-de-France, whose narrow symmetrically squared streets are as congested during the day as they are empty at night.
All ran fluently in the beginning, but when I was going back to my home, I passed through a narrow slippery street.
The castle narrowly failed to win cash from BBC TV's Restoration competition in 2003, leading to fears that the building might decay completely.
She fired an arrow at the target.
Throughout questioning, more harrowing details came to light. The Sun
Bring to the boil and slowly add the arrowroot mixture, stirring constantly until the sauce has thickened.
Fine, evenly spaced, simple, prorsiradiate ribs are separated by narrow interspaces.
Never thought of _death_, or even looked upon it, for mother told us there was no need of harrowing up our feelings -- it would come soon enough, she said; and to me, who hoped to live so long, it has come _too soon_ -- all too soon; "and the hot tears rained through the transparent fingers, clasped so convulsively over her face. Dora Deane
In reality, the Triangle is taller but narrower and through it flows the Milky Way as it arches over the sky from Sagittarius in the SSW to Auriga in the NNE. Starwatch
But as times and tastes changed, it needed a catalyst to move beyond the shopworn stereotypes of LAPD cops as either by-the-book straight arrows or rakish, rule-breaking mavericks.

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