NARROW in a Sentence

Learn NARROW from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
266 example sentences for NARROW, such as:
1. Access was via a narrow archway.
2. They rode along narrow country lanes.
3. The narrow path expanded into a wide road.
4. The pass gets quite narrow towards the east.
5. The fabric is only available in a narrow width.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of NARROW
narrow
 n.  a narrow strait connecting two bodies of water
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Opposite the Varnum gate, where the road fell away toward the Corbury valley, the church reared its slim white steeple and narrow peristyle.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In I
2  The doors of the two bedrooms faced each other across the narrow upper landing, and to-night it was peculiarly repugnant to him that Mattie should see him follow Zeena.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In II
3  She had pale opaque eyes which revealed nothing and reflected nothing, and her narrow lips were of the same sallow colour as her face.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
4  The red color of her skin, narrow high forehead, prominent cheek bones and the hawk-bridged nose which flattened at the end above thick negro lips, all showed the mixture of two races.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
5  Her face was paper white and her narrow eyes blazing like emeralds.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
6  In a moment, the Home Guard and the militia unit in their bright uniforms shook the narrow stairs and crowded into the room, bowing, saluting, shaking hands.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
7  Scarlett did not even glance at the picture but went unhesitatingly across the room to the square rosewood writing box that stood on the table beside the narrow bed.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
8  The side window of the newspaper office opened and a hand was extended, bearing a sheaf of long narrow galley proofs, smeared with fresh ink and thick with names closely printed.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
9  She was hardly taller than a twelve-year- old child, her hips were as narrow as a child's and her breasts were very flat.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
10  She hurried into the crowd at Five Points, now so thick there was no room on the narrow sidewalks and she was forced to walk in the street.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
11  The front seat was only a narrow plank across the sides of the wagon.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
12  The narrow street was a dim tunnel, but faintly through the thick leafy ceiling the hideous red glow of the sky penetrated and shadows chased one another down the dark way like mad ghosts.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
13  Ahead of them was a tunnel of fire where buildings were blazing on either side of the short, narrow street that led down to the railroad tracks.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
14  They pulled into a side street, then another, then turned and twisted from one narrow street to another until Scarlett completely lost her bearings and the roaring of the flames died behind them.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
15  In the corner of the room was an empty bed, a narrow French Empire bed with curling head and foot, a bed which Ellen had brought from Savannah.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
Example Sentence: (56 in 4 pages)
1  Access was via a narrow archway.
2  The narrow windows admit little light into the room.
3  They rode along narrow country lanes.
4  It is essentially a narrow and conservative approach to child care.
5  The fabric is only available in a narrow width.
6  A narrow track wound steeply up through dense forest.
7  They drove down a narrow track that branched off from the main road.
8  The wide paved road degenerated into a narrow bumpy track.
9  We drove up a narrow dirt track to their house.
10  The path is too narrow for two people to walk together.
11  The narrow path expanded into a wide road.
12  A narrow passage led directly through the house into the garden.
13  What's happened is that the new results narrow down the possibilities.
14  The pass gets quite narrow towards the east.
15  The decision was taken for narrow economic reasons, without considering its social effects.