How To Use Narrowly In A Sentence

  • It was not just established states that were eager narrowly to define the right of self-determination as a right end colonial status.
  • Occasionally, courts admitted shopbooks as evidence but the exception normally was narrowly applied to circumstances in which the scrivener was not available to testify.
  • She narrowly missed out on gold to Pippa Funnell after knocking down a fence in the showjumping.
  • Finally the competition went to sudden death, when the Baltinglass team missed winning the title narrowly.
  • 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
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  • Despite this presidential warning shot, the Senate narrowly approved both amendments.
  • In paying homage to his political spoilsman and teacher, he had only narrowly been spared a potentially disastrous appointment.
  • 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.
  • The castle narrowly failed to win cash from BBC TV's Restoration competition in 2003, leading to fears that the building might decay completely.
  • Voters appreciate some interest from candidates on environmental issues, but they are wary of candidates who are perceived as being too narrowly focused on environmentalism.
  • Nor had she looked narrowly into his eyes and espied the imminence of his escape, as he'd feared she could. BARN BLIND
  • Narrowly missing out on a Grammy award, Wait For Me doesn't sound too much like the blues I was brought up with.
  • In addition, an almost simultaneous missile attack narrowly missed an airliner taking off nearby.
  • Shots were fired and Tony narrowly escaped with his life.
  • Twice I had come across wild mountain cats, narrowly escaping death.
  • They spoke of incidents of violence, which included a disabled woman twice narrowly escaping injury from a youth firing an air rifle and a pensioner's pet dog being shot dead.
  • One car ended up in a field after skidding off the road and up a bank, narrowly missing a tree and telegraph pole.
  • The proliferation of narrowly based mutual aid societies and festas (feste, or feast days) honoring local patron saints were manifestations of these tendencies.
  • Peach escapes narrowly to design another day although her pink polka dot snore of a dress (even she admitted earlier it looked like "Barbie's sofa") is called "matronly" by the judges and like "an Amish cocktail dress" by MK (his lines are doubling me over so far this season). Holly Cara Price: Rubbernecking: Project Runway Season 8, Episodes 1 and 2
  • Sullivan writes that to focus narrowly on Khamenei and the Royal [sic] Guard, would put us in the same place we were in the 1970s: out of touch with the situation on the ground, and disconnected from the concerns of ordinary Iranians. Wonk Room » For More Tehran-ology
  • For a moment Trent and Mariana were held immobile, stunned by the incredible power from which they had so narrowly escaped.
  • I hear your amities abut the offload opportunity, but I think that and you position that learning equals practice narrowly defines important concepts. If you haven't practiced, you haven't learned anything
  • “A troublesome, inquisitive old gentleman,” said Tyrrel to himself; “I remember him narrowly escaping the bastinado at Smyrna, for thrusting his advice on the Turkish cadi — and then I lie under a considerable obligation to him, giving him a sort of right to annoy me — Well, I must parry his impertinence as I can.” Saint Ronan's Well
  • Others fell into the trap I narrowly avoided while deciding on my outfit - accessorizing into hipness.
  • For example, there might be occasions when an executive had been late at the airport and narrowly missed a flight.
  • The first and the second glumes are empty, subequal, narrowly linear with a strong midrib which is produced into a long capillary awn. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
  • Five firemen narrowly escaped death when a staircase collapsed beneath their feet.
  • A more narrowly technical cross-disciplinary effort in Mozambique is Paul J.J. Sinclair, "Ethno-Archaeological Surveys of the Save River Valley, South-Central Mozambique," Working Papers in African Studies, 11 (Department of Cultural Anthropology, Uppsala University, 1985). Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique
  • He reported on the war until 1965 and narrowly escaped death after being shot down in combat aircraft three times. Times, Sunday Times
  • Gordon Kearney was narrowly wide with a penalty and then Jon Slattery was held up on the last of many drives for the line before the half time whistle.
  • New heavy industries were concentrated in narrowly restricted areas.
  • Rheingold was narrowly beaten in the Derby by Roberto, given an especially forceful ride by Lester Piggott, while Hawaiian Sound might have held off Shirley Heights in 1978 if he had not drifted away from the rail in the final furlong. Barry Hills to retire as trainer and hand licence to son Charlie
  • Colin wrenched the wheel, and the car narrowly missed a fair-sized tree as it bobbed down Valsalva Street.
  • With his back to goal and two defenders smothering him, he somehow manages to turn and make room for a shot, which he fires narrowly wide.
  • The tricky winger then saw another effort go narrowly wide of the near post after another mazy dribble. The Sun
  • Pedestrians in Tooting had a lucky escape after a car veered off the road and crashed into a shop, narrowly missing them.
  • Disaster was narrowly averted and a measure of farce was injected. A TALE OF FOUR HOUSES: Opera at Covent Garden, La Scala, Vienna and the Met since 1945
  • The third glume is ovate or oblong, acute or obtuse, longer or shorter than the second, 1-nerved, paleate; palea is as long as the glume and of the same texture of the glume dorsally narrowly inflexed along the middle line and splitting into two halves. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
  • The issue of framing, both narrowly and broadly defined, was a focus of the exhibition.
  • But there was a stroke of good fortune for Fallon in the paddock before the race as Gift Horse lashed out with his hind legs, narrowly missing the jockey.
  • This would be a cautionary tale of catastrophes narrowly averted and environmental damage now emerging.
  • Countless casuals pick up occasional pieces, but the field of ‘serious’ glass collecting in Britain can still be largely divided into twelve narrowly delineated categories.
  • Debriefing can also be more narrowly defined in terms of the procedures used, the information provided and the target population.
  • She narrowly escaped getting drenched by a couple of sprinklers.
  • Further support for the hypothesis is obtained from data for more narrowly defined groups of countries. Competing in a Global Economy
  • THE Earth narrowly escaped a cosmic disaster yesterday when an asteroid the size of a bungalow flew past. The Sun
  • In the opening contest of the night Lismore City narrowly defeated RSL six rubbers to five.
  • Although the plane narrowly missed the Relais Bleu hotel, it completely destroyed the Hotelissmo next door.
  • With jockey Yutaka Take in the irons, To the Victory dug in gamely and narrowly outran Rosebud to the wire.
  • A Swindon schoolgirl who narrowly missed out on getting top prize in a national spelling competition says she is determined to win next year.
  • The _first glume_ is concave, pale yellow, shining and cartilaginous to about 2/3 its length from the base, and the upper third is membranous, dimidiately ovate; at the back in the cartilaginous portion, there are three to six deep convex smooth ridges running across the glume; the membranous tip is thin and with anastomosing green veins; the margins of this glume are thick, narrowly incurved, ciliolate, and with a narrow wing on the outer margin. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
  • With the memory of all the talk against the man that had been dinned into her ears, I looked at her narrowly.
  • After measuring and cutting the canopy and headboard panel, narrowly hem the edges or bind them with coordinating binding strips.
  • The victim was shot in the stomach at close range with a hand gun but the bullet passed through his body narrowly missing his vital organs.
  • The book by Ryan and Conlon, more narrowly focused on women in industrial relations, was the most firmly based on new primary research.
  • A narrowly avoided divorce scandal involving a prominent Member of Parliament.
  • The law should then be tailored carefully and narrowly in an attempt to deal with those consequences or abuses.
  • Specific licenses have been issued (1) for payment to U.S. or third-country secured creditors, under certain narrowly defined circumstances, for pre-embargo import and export transactions; Presidents Letter On Yugoslavia Economic Sanctions
  • Bringing the Ex was extraordinarily tacky, but narrowly/technically legal; her not warning you in the first place was especially grody.
  • The bullet narrowly missed her heart.
  • General Robert E. Lee narrowly escaped defeat this battle and the lack of men caused him and his army to retreat back in to Virginia.
  • Well over half of profit still came from overseas, and marine paint and powder coatings were narrowly the largest contributors.
  • The Puerto Rican jumped, and the tranquilizer dart thudded against the wall, narrowly missing him.
  • There will continue to be resistance to the idea that book reviewers should seek the more congenial, if also more narrowly focused, space afforded by the quarterlies (or, for that matter, literary blogs). Book Reviewing
  • Timeshare law is too narrowly defined, so it excludes contracts of less than 36 months or timeshare on boats.
  • Gavin, chancing a shot at him, rolls violently out across the street, drawing attention from every gun within a mile, narrowly escaping a few ricochets.
  • World recordholder Aaron Peirsol was upset in the 100 backstroke, narrowly losing to David Plummer, a 24-year-old swimmer from Minnetonka, Minn., who won the first national title of his career. Michael Phelps Dominates US Nationals
  • Moreover, it would be a mistake to imagine that the extensive denominational press was narrowly sectarian.
  • What matters for the rational choice model is that all preferences are comparable, not that they are narrowly self-interested. Choice, Rationality, and Social Theory
  • The ball falls to Tugay who shoots narrowly left and wide from inside the box.
  • Charities said a repeat of the tragedy was only narrowly avoided. Times, Sunday Times
  • The leaves of ssp. beneolens are greenish, mostly linear to very-narrowly oblanceolate, and have a tendency to be ascending.
  • That phrase is read narrowly to convict the accused of handling rather than theft, handling being a more serious offence than theft.
  • If one defines imperialism narrowly as a policy of occupying and governing foreign lands, American imperialism lasted for an extremely short time. The American Nation: A History of the United States to 1877
  • A family who narrowly escaped with their lives after their home went up in flames have been dealt a second blow after burglars broke into the damaged house and stole hundreds of pounds worth of goods.
  • One of the three fishing partners narrowly escaped by swimming to a jetty after waves capsized the small boat.
  • Missiles and bullets whizzed past his car, only narrowly avoiding the tail.
  • Suddenly Ned swerved the truck, narrowly missing a blond teenager on a skateboard.
  • They're making judgments based on a narrowly focused vision of the world.
  • Two children in the car were rescued unhurt, and a woman inside the house narrowly avoided being hit by debris.
  • Taking up a little tumbler, in shape like those from which French postilions used to drink la goutte, he inspected it narrowly, wiped out the interior with his forefinger, filled it to the brim, and offered it to his guest28 with a bow. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah
  • On a road whose width barely allows two cars to pass, this lunatic came hurtling round a blind corner, narrowly missing me.
  • Consider the cost and results of a ‘hit and miss’ national roll-out as opposed to those of a narrowly focused launch targeted at the most likely consumer.
  • Is it a correct reading that according to the opinion, if the words “cruelly wounded or killed in a cruel manner,” were inserted, or if “wounded” and “killed” were both excised from the statute then it would be narrowly tailored and satisfy the first amendment? The Volokh Conspiracy » Wise Words About Prosecutorial Discretion and Speech Restrictions
  • While the breadth of Marv Albert's cinematic oeuvre is substantial, he's been narrowly typecast: He always plays a sportscaster — specifically, always himself. Marv of the movies: Always in character
  • Hounslow's Rhenu Khuttan won the girls badminton plate competition and Sandeep Gupta was narrowly defeated in the boys quarter-finals.
  • Take-off and landing procedures have been tightened after two jets narrowly escaped disaster.
  • Turning from the narrowly financial aspects, let us briefly mention some of the legal complexities of the system.
  • A perfect lens would be able to focus light more narrowly than conventional lenses, making it possible to etch finer electronic circuits and create more compact and powerful computer chips.
  • After narrowly avoiding some jail time, he returns home only to get kicked out by his boozehound mother.
  • United narrowly escaped going three behind when Kerr let loose from long range with his drive shaving the right-hand post.
  • The ball narrowly shaved his off stump.
  • She scanned the baby narrowly, then looked as searchingly at Sandra, whose face was turned to gaze across the fields.
  • Police were also called to a building in Northgate in Wakefield city centre after the wind blew off part of the roof, narrowly missing a pedestrian.
  • Until recent weeks, it looked like the opposition Greens and SPD woud cruise to victory in the region, but the CDU has made a comeback in polls and, with the FDP, is now narrowly ahead. Merkel Plays Down Hamburg Defeat
  • Hayden also saw a goal effort go narrowly wide in the 25th minute.
  • a squamulate appearance to it; when narrowly examined, just above the rather large and bluntish scutellum, there are some distinct scattered punctures; thorax beneath covered with fulvous hairs. Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 2
  • a gorge and they drove a cyclist into a patch of maize, they narrowly missed a goat and jumped three gullies, thrice the horse stumbled and was jerked up in time, there were sickening moments, and withal they got down to Piedimulera unbroken and unspilt. The Research Magnificent
  • She narrowly escaped injury.
  • In shale and sandy soil, even in the gravel of hillsides, one finds the narrowly divided, finely cut leaves and the bicolored beardless blossom of the Bird's-foot Violet (_V. pedata_), pale bluish purple on the lower petals, dark purple on one or two upper ones, and with a heart of gold. Wild Flowers Worth Knowing
  • His proposal to object to the application was narrowly defeated by five to four votes.
  • Anatomy of a Scene: The Explosive Bridge Chase Scene — A dissection of the sequence when Bourne narrowly avoids a train coming down the tracks to leap from a bridge onto a barge underneath. THE BOURNE IDENTITY/THE BOURNE SUPREMACY Blu-Ray/DVD Flipper Disc Reviews – Collider.com
  • Take-off and landing procedures have been tightened after two jets narrowly escaped disaster.
  • Amid the vagaries of that mechanism, the people's interests are narrowly interpreted as financial benefits.
  • Mrs Hayward needed emergency surgery after the bullet narrowly missed her heart.
  • The tricky winger then saw another effort go narrowly wide of the near post after another mazy dribble. The Sun
  • They narrowly dodge a car that gets swept into the air by the howling winds. The Sun
  • A lecturer could not readily fix this problem by adding supplementary material because continuous homomorphisms have been defined too narrowly.
  • Leinster did a similar demolition job on Llanelli and lost narrowly to the South-west Division.
  • In this area of the world, being narrowly missed by a lightning bolt gives one the ability to perform divination.
  • She threw a plate at him and only narrowly missed.
  • A two-inch nut shattered the window and showered glass into the vehicle as it pulled up outside the school, narrowly missing pupils.
  • A tragedy was narrowly averted when a lorry crashed into a crowded restaurant.
  • The ninety mile per hour fastball narrowly missed his head as the young black superstar dropped to the dirt.
  • They would confirm this, by pretending to observe, that a British anus being more narrowly perforated than one of our own country; and many of these excrements upon a strict view appearing copple crowned, with a point like a cone or pyramid, are easily distinguished from the The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. - Volume 07 Historical and Political Tracts-Irish
  • However, an unlucky schoolboy aimed a hazel nut directly at my head, which very narrowly missed me; otherwise, it came with so much violence, that it would have infallibly knocked out my brains, for it was almost as large as a small pumpion: but I had the satisfaction to see the young rogue well beaten, and turned out of the room. Gulliver's Travels
  • The beat-up old car speeds through, the driver not caring for the innocent children as he narrowly misses them all.
  • Fulke pulls his game back to all square at the 16th after Love narrowly misses a putt from the edge of the green.
  • The company narrowly avoided a humiliating defeat over executive pay. Times, Sunday Times
  • Defining public use narrowly would put a straitjacket on governments in devising solutions to difficult social problems.
  • He then went close for the Rams but his shot narrowly shaved the crossbar.
  • The trick was to focus narrowly, almost autistically, on numbers: lot number, number of bidders, paddle numbers, bid steps. 'The Billionaire's Vinegar'
  • A driving instructor's student narrowly averted an accident as they came across the rope.
  • I was flung out of control, and was narrowly missed a huge chunk of rock.
  • As a critique of U. S.-funded programs, however, it is narrowly focused, citing only two such initiatives as examples, and these in forbidding Kandahar and Helmand, home to the bulk of the insurgency. Letters to the Editor
  • Nigel Humphrey, 50, from Belvedere Avenue, Lancing, narrowly missed crashing into 44-year-old Anne Ford and hit her 'lollypop' with his Landrover as she stood terrified in the middle of West Street, Sompting, last July. Undefined
  • The third and the fourth glumes are chartaceous, narrowly lanceolate, 3-nerved, bicuspidate and awned below the tip; awns are capillary, straight; the callus is bearded and articulate at the base. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
  • The Senate voted narrowly to continue funding the scheme.
  • These big general issues should be broken down into more narrowly focused questions.
  • Dennis Bergkamp swings in a free-kick from the left, Gilberto flicks it goalwards and it fizzes narrowly wide. Patrick Vieira lunged in an attempt to steer the ball home, but to no avail.
  • Butler, who had now taken over the kicking duties from Feeney, looked to have struck the conversion well but into the difficult breeze, the ball sailed narrowly to the right.
  • In August last year, the poor state of the frontage of the building was brought under scrutiny again when a piece of the wood and plaster fascia fell off, narrowly missing a pedestrian.
  • The 67-year-old radiation oncologist was narrowly elected last year in a district that includes Huntsville and Decatur.
  • After being narrowly beaten in the first race, the second day he was the first to congratulate his conqueror in the moment of victory.
  • Presidential arm-twisting helped Mr. Ford narrowly win a test vote designed to force him to name his running mate in advance, and ultimately he won the delegate roll call 1,187 to 1,070. Gingrich Aims to Conjure Spirit of '76—1976, That Is
  • Realizing now was time for action, he rolled from the snapping ivory teeth, the chops nipping at his feet as he narrowly escaped.
  • The event marker used to qualify clinical segments as softening events may be too narrowly defined.
  • The legislature voted narrowly to table a motion of no-confidence in the government.
  • The Prime Minister narrowly avoided a leadership challenge last year.
  • He tumbled down to the edge and narrowly managed to avoid falling to almost certain death.
  • But while some may think that Kevin Terrell and his compatriots are all talk, there have been numerous examples of this type of far right extremism that have either led to violence or were narrowly prevented from leading to violence. Matt Kane: The Enemy from Within: Why We Cannot Focus Solely on Islamic Terrorism
  • Three lorry drivers narrowly survived a crash caused by another attack. Times, Sunday Times
  • Several windows have been smashed with what is believed to be an airgun; and on one occasion shards of glass narrowly missed one of the tenants.
  • The Senate voted narrowly to continue funding the scheme.
  • On Sunday, council narrowly rejected the recommendations of a committee struck to investigate the issue of refundable fees.
  • Humanity is narrowly defined and that is one of our strengths.
  • Narrowly above him, a machine gun fired into the thin air.
  • They get to control it, for a limited time and it should be more narrowly limited than it is right now.
  • Mrs Hayward needed emergency surgery after the bullet narrowly missed her heart.
  • In each of these cases, archaeometric analysis was able to determine a specific source location because the sources were narrowly distributed, often to an area as small as a county.
  • He narrowly missed the target with a half-volley from the edge of the area midway through the second half. Times, Sunday Times
  • In addition, our attention becomes more narrowly focused on the physical source of our pleasure.
  • Tell me about the car accident you narrowly survived. Times, Sunday Times
  • Terrorism must be defined far more narrowly than in this proposal.
  • However, it is established that similar to other ecoregions on Madagascar there are a number of narrowly distributed endemic species and recent biological inventories of the ericoid thicket has located further endemic species. Madagascar ericoid thickets
  • However, an unlucky schoolboy aimed a hazel-nut directly at my head, which very narrowly missed me; otherwise it came with so much violence that it would have infallibly knocked out my brains, for it was almost as large as a small pumpion: but I had the satisfaction to see the young rogue well beaten and turned out of the room .... The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume III (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland I
  • Abdomen petiolated, smooth and shining, with the apex and the margins of the segments narrowly rufo-piceous. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
  • Tell me about the car accident you narrowly survived. Times, Sunday Times
  • Why can't you let yourself write 'Manfred pauses in midstride, narrowly being mown down by a GPS-guided rollerblader'? Monty Python's Spamalot (U.S. Tour)
  • Carrot-munching Bugs Bunny was always being pursued by his human nemesis, hunter Elmer Fudd; yet, time and time again, Bugs would narrowly escape, outwitting the hapless Fudd.
  • Some analysts contend they should not be, at least under narrowly defined circumstances.
  • Two rich "dandies" who had been watching the brawl narrowly escaped arrest. Queens Gazette
  • The world was said to have narrowly missed a global catastrophe on Tuesday when an asteroid skimmed past. Times, Sunday Times
  • Though a number of studies have found lower levels of genetic variation in rare, narrowly distributed species compared to their more widespread congeners, several studies have found the opposite result.
  • He got a nod for the party at a council election as a candidate some years back but narrowly missed the quota to get elected.
  • Perfectionists live in a narrowly defined world in which they feel empowered.
  • The third and the fourth glumes are chartaceous, narrowly lanceolate, 3-nerved, bicuspidate and awned below the tip; awns are capillary, straight; the callus is bearded and articulate at the base. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
  • Several windows have been smashed with what is believed to be an airgun; and on one occasion shards of glass narrowly missed one of the tenants.
  • There was also a change in outlook, as spoliation was no longer viewed narrowly as wartime looting, but as also covering losses suffered by Jewish collectors in Germany after the Nazis seized power in 1933.
  • There was not a partition that he did not tap, nor a block of chimneys that he did not narrowly examine; all water-pipes, flues, cisterns, and sewers underwent an investigation; he even descended, in the care of his friend, so far as to bore sundry boards in the floors with a bradawl. Barchester Towers
  • Funding should focus on interdisciplinary teams and avoid narrowly focused discipline research.
  • It almost caused numerous accidents, here narrowly avoiding a head-on collision.
  • Despite the classical attenuation of her ankles—the heel narrowly incurved, the ankle bone itself a perfect sphere, and with a glisten on it, like sucked caramel—my mother had only to put on a heel higher than her thumb and she metamorphosed into a fine piece of ass, the sort of dame that gave a Chicago mobster cachet. Kalooki Nights
  • He reported on the war until 1965 and narrowly escaped death after being shot down in combat aircraft three times. Times, Sunday Times
  • Some narrowly averted discrimination in health and life insurance. Times, Sunday Times
  • A few months ago, I signed onto a statement by a group of testing experts, which cautioned that such strategies were likely to misidentify which teachers were effective and which were ineffective, to promote teaching narrowly to the test, and to cause a narrowing of the curriculum. Ravitch: The pitfalls of putting economists in charge of education
  • The bill passed by the legislature was narrowly tailored to apply only to the one case.
  • They narrowly escaped shipwreck in a storm in the North Sea.
  • The brinksmanship is a familiar pattern this year between the two parties, who have narrowly averted a federal default and several government shutdowns in past fights. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
  • A tragedy was narrowly averted when a lorry crashed into a crowded restaurant.
  • They narrowly dodge a car that gets swept into the air by the howling winds. The Sun
  • The gerontic aperture is narrowly elongated in species of Eoscoliostoma, but rather circular in Scoliostoma species.
  • Some, such as chambers of commerce, concern themselves with narrowly defined interests.
  • Disaster was narrowly averted and a measure of farce was injected. A TALE OF FOUR HOUSES: Opera at Covent Garden, La Scala, Vienna and the Met since 1945
  • The modern definition of "nepotism" is simply favoritism based on kinship, but most people today use the term very narrowly, to mean hiring not just a relative but one who is grossly incompetent. In Praise of Nepotism
  • Pintusevich-Block was out for revenge after narrowly losing to Jones in the 1997 final.
  • THREE fighter jets narrowly avoided colliding in British airspace, it emerged yesterday. The Sun
  • But historically torture has most often been defined more narrowly, as an aspect of legal systems or of state repression.
  • He narrowly escaped being blown up by a mine when he was exploring a tell outside the city.
  • That phrase is read narrowly to convict the accused of handling rather than theft, handling being a more serious offence than theft.
  • Eight-year-old Luke Vardy narrowly escaped with his life after he slipped and lost his footing as he climbed wrought iron fencing in the front garden of his Rotherham home.
  • Three are narrowly endemic to the Lake Wales Ridge (Liatris ohlingerae, Polygonella myriophylla, and Prunus geniculata), nine are herbs, two are shrubs and one is a woody prostrate subshrub.
  • Three lorry drivers narrowly survived a crash caused by another attack. Times, Sunday Times
  • But later generations have been far more narrowly trained in specialties and are less well educated in philosophy, and so have forgotten this conceptual history. September 13th, 2009
  • I narrowly missed a cyclist who wobbled into my path.
  • I was flung out of control, and was narrowly missed a huge chunk of rock.
  • He was narrowly beaten by his opponent.
  • He was arrested on Thursday after aiming his car at pedestrians, narrowly missing one of them. Times, Sunday Times
  • This was narrowly avoided by producing a new programming scheme, involving local sponsorship as the future funders of individual exhibitions.
  • I've forgotten about that wooden frame and only narrowly miss causing irreversible damage to my vertebrae.

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