narrow - use in sentences

Object

  • gap: Close the Gap carries out a range of activity designed to encourage positive action to narrow the gender pay gap.
  • artery: Then the tip of the catheter is expanded like a tiny balloon in the blocked or narrowed coronary artery.
  • scope: As well, private firms seeking new investment and business opportunities also tried to narrow the scope of public agencies.
  • differential: They're working across regional boundaries to narrow the economic differential between North and South.
  • divide: By 2002, we'd got the footings in place for creating more successful towns and cities and narrowing the economic divide between regions.
  • search: Each works somewhat differently, most importantly in respect to how you broaden or narrow a search.

Modifies a noun

  • lane: The road then descends slightly to where a narrow lane joins from the left.
  • street: In the narrow medieval streets of the town, blessed with a wealth of historic houses, Plas Mawr reigns supreme.
  • strip: Living in a narrow coastal strip, they were busy traders, with little else to sustain them.
  • gage: Black Dog Mining Company - narrow gage industrial models.
  • boat: Enough of the blockage has been excavated on the tow-path side to allow the passage of narrow boats.
  • rift: The stream exits the chamber through a narrow rift.

Modifying Another Word

  • relatively: Each has a relatively narrow entry area which was free of LOS from the village.
  • too: The sink is not a good dig, being much too narrow.

Followed by an intransitive particle

  • down: These generic quotes will help you narrow down your list of possible mortgage lenders.

Followed by a transitive particle

  • down: He also uses the solar return to narrow down the time of death.

Infinitive complement

  • accommodate: Question 5. " Bedens Road is too narrow to accommodate an increase in traffic with the new development and cars will get damaged.

Preposition: in

  • scope: Similar to, but narrower in scope than teletrade ( see definition above ) Email.

Preposition: of

  • margin: An inferior goal average meant missing out on promotion by the narrowest of margins to Oldham Athletic.
  • artery: Angina is a symptom complex that results from myocardial ischemia; most commonly caused by narrowing of the coronary arteries.

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