narrowly

Definition:
1. In a narrow manner; not allowing for exceptions.

Use 'narrowly' in a sentence:

• 1. He turned the corner a little too fast, narrowly missing the boy who ran into the road to wave him down.
• 2. What luck he narrowly escaped drowning!
• 3. I felt his eyes narrowly upon me.
• 4. The teacher took his illness into account, so she made him narrowly pass the exam.
• 5. Society defines success very narrowly.
• 6. At the end of his first year, Nijay lost his Pell Grant of over$ 5 000 after narrowly missing the 2.0 GPA cut-off, making it impossible for him to continue paying for school.
• 7. A fresh tragedy was narrowly averted yesterday.
• 8. He narrowly missed being run over by a car.
• 9. She narrowly missed hitting him.
• 10. The plane flew through the clouds in time and a disaster was narrowly averted.
• 11. At the end of his first year, Nijay lost his Pell Grant of over $5,000 after narrowly missing the 2.0 GPA cut-off.
• 12. China's advance may bring benefits beyond the narrowly commercial.
• 13. He narrowly escaped being killed.
• 14. The two cars narrowly missed hitting each other.
• 15. She hurled the ashtray across the room, narrowly missing my head.
• 16. The child narrowly escaped being spoiled.
• 17. In the competitive game of biomedical science, research has been done on scientists who narrowly lost or won grant money.
• 18. The university has thus met its burden of showing that the admissions policy it used was narrowly tailored.
• 19. He narrowly escaped with his life when suspected right-wing extremists fired shots into his office.
• 20. The team lost narrowly.
• 21. The subject of fan interest can be narrowly defined, focused on something like an individual celebrity for sports.
• 22. She looked at him narrowly.
• 23. At the end of his first year, Nijay lost his Pell Grant of over $5,000 after narrowly missing the 2.0 GPA cut-off, making it impossible for him to continue paying for school.
• 24. Don't focus too narrowly on money.
• 25. I narrowly missed being hurt by a car yesterday.
• 26. He narrowly escaped in the air crash.
• 27. In teaching ideas, narrowly understanding modern education as modern education of technology.
• 28. Suddenly Ned swerved the truck, narrowly missing a blond teenager on a skateboard.
• 29. Traditional advertisement definition narrowly regards import and export trade of products and international marketing as economic basis of international advertisement and regards international transmitting media as its important characteristics.
• 30. In spite of a dismal record at school, she narrowly squeaked into design school.
• 31. I narrowly missed a cyclist who wobbled into my path.
• 32. The car narrowly missed a cyclist.
• 33. Five firemen narrowly escaped death when a staircase collapsed beneath their feet.
• 34. Narrowly self-interested behaviour is ultimately self-defeating.
• 35. A disaster was narrowly averted.
• 36. She narrowly escaped injury.
• 37. Take-off and landing procedures have been tightened after two jets narrowly escaped disaster.
• 38. They narrowly avoided defeat.
• 39. Ethologists—specialists in animal behavior—are interested in evolution, so they define the term narrowly.
• 40. They may define their contribution too narrowly.
• 41. They narrowly escaped shipwreck in a storm in the North Sea.
• 42. She threw a plate at him and only narrowly missed.
• 43. She narrowly failed to win enough votes.
• 44. He grimaced and looked narrowly at his colleague.