Narrowing
['næro]
Definition
(noun.) the act of making something narrower.
(noun.) an instance of becoming narrow.
(noun.) a decrease in width.
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Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Narrow
(n.) The act of contracting, or of making or becoming less in breadth or extent.
(n.) The part of a stocking which is narrowed.
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Examples
- But instead of narrowing the scope of politics, to avoid it, the only sensible thing to do is to invent methods which will allow needs and problems and group interests avenues into politics. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The room was darkening to his sight; the world was narrowing around him. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- There was a narrowing up in the mountain, between the National and Confederate armies, through which a stream, a wagon road and a railroad ran. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Now my fate is all narrowing down to a point. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Ingenious arrangements generally exist for widening or narrowing the cultivator and for throwing the soil from the centre of the furrow to opposite sides and against the plant. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Gerald Crich, his face narrowing to an intent gleam, followed up the hill with quick strides, straight after Gudrun. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Thurid turned toward Xodar, his eyes narrowing to two nasty slits. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
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