Narrow
adjective
Not wide, having a small distance from side to side.
The street is too narrow for cars
Often appears as...
- narrow street
- narrow gap
verb
To make or become less wide.
The road narrows ahead
Often appears as...
- narrow down
- narrow focus
adjective
Limited in extent or range.
She has a narrow view of the world
Often appears as...
- narrow minded
- narrow outlook
adjective
Just enough to succeed.
He won by a narrow margin
Often appears as...
- narrow escape
- narrow victory
verb
To limit the options one is considering.
She narrowed her choices down to two
Often appears as...
- narrow down choices
- narrow down options
adjective
Not wide, having a small distance from side to side.
The street is too narrow for cars
Often appears as...
- narrow street
- narrow gap
verb
To make or become less wide.
The road narrows ahead
Often appears as...
- narrow down
- narrow focus
adjective
Limited in extent or range.
She has a narrow view of the world
Often appears as...
- narrow minded
- narrow outlook
adjective
Just enough to succeed.
He won by a narrow margin
Often appears as...
- narrow escape
- narrow victory
verb
To limit the options one is considering.
She narrowed her choices down to two
Often appears as...
- narrow down choices
- narrow down options
Definition 1 of 5
Pro Tip 1/2Physical Spaces
Relates to physical width, like paths or items you have to move through or around.
The alley was too narrow for the truck.
Pro Tip 2/2Descriptive Imagery
Used to create a vivid picture of small or confined spaces in writing.
The narrow hallway echoed with each step.
Pro Tip 1/2Physical Spaces
Relates to physical width, like paths or items you have to move through or around.
The alley was too narrow for the truck.
Pro Tip 2/2Descriptive Imagery
Used to create a vivid picture of small or confined spaces in writing.
The narrow hallway echoed with each step.
Pro Tip 1/2Physical Spaces
Relates to physical width, like paths or items you have to move through or around.
The alley was too narrow for the truck.
Pro Tip 2/2Descriptive Imagery
Used to create a vivid picture of small or confined spaces in writing.
The narrow hallway echoed with each step.
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BBC Earth 50 Top Natural...
normal hares whiskers also sit three times deeper in the skin where they attach to nerve endings telling the cat how far each one is being bent back and how quickly their whiskers are the same width as their body allowing cats to navigate the narrowest spaces
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The otherworldly...
allows them to withstand immense pressure. But they're the exception. Most deep-sea creatures are confined to a narrow range in the water column where nutrients are scarce since the food drifting downwards from the surface rapidly sinks to the sea floor.
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Can you solve the frog...
And in many of our own life decisions, we use information gained from past experience and our surroundings to narrow down our choices to the best options so that maybe next time, we can avoid eating that poisonous mushroom in the first place.
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Alice Goffman: How we're...
It turns out that the crime rate goes up and down irrespective of how many young people we send to prison. We tend to think about justice in a pretty narrow good and bad, innocent and guilty. Injustice is about being wrongfully convicted.
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Are These Cats Actually...
and a lovely narrow little face and these lovely little ears. They're tapping into something deep rooted within us. We love our cats because they love us. They're everything to me. She's like the last jigsaw of our family.
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Orca's Extraordinary...
the rising tide breaches their nursery creating a narrow inlet to the pool and an opportunity for the intelligent organ she is thought to be the first of her kind in the world to hunt seals in this
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See How Easily a Rat Can...
narrow maze like toilet pipes is this even possible the underwater passage leaves no room for error add a turn the rat finds a pocket of air just enough to help it
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What forgiveness can...
release you set yourself free grudges bitterness resentment they're all burdens they narrow our options our relationships our experiences of life
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Are Crows the Ultimate...
The meat is positioned so deep in the narrow box, it's out of reach of the crow's beak.
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10 TOP Natural History...
oh dear big cheeks and narrow bottlenecks
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BBC Earth 50 Top Natural...
normal hares whiskers also sit three times deeper in the skin where they attach to nerve endings telling the cat how far each one is being bent back and how quickly their whiskers are the same width as their body allowing cats to navigate the narrowest spaces
Video examples
The otherworldly...
allows them to withstand immense pressure. But they're the exception. Most deep-sea creatures are confined to a narrow range in the water column where nutrients are scarce since the food drifting downwards from the surface rapidly sinks to the sea floor.
Video examples
Can you solve the frog...
And in many of our own life decisions, we use information gained from past experience and our surroundings to narrow down our choices to the best options so that maybe next time, we can avoid eating that poisonous mushroom in the first place.
Video examples
Alice Goffman: How we're...
It turns out that the crime rate goes up and down irrespective of how many young people we send to prison. We tend to think about justice in a pretty narrow good and bad, innocent and guilty. Injustice is about being wrongfully convicted.
Video examples
Are These Cats Actually...
and a lovely narrow little face and these lovely little ears. They're tapping into something deep rooted within us. We love our cats because they love us. They're everything to me. She's like the last jigsaw of our family.
Video examples
Orca's Extraordinary...
the rising tide breaches their nursery creating a narrow inlet to the pool and an opportunity for the intelligent organ she is thought to be the first of her kind in the world to hunt seals in this
Video examples
See How Easily a Rat Can...
narrow maze like toilet pipes is this even possible the underwater passage leaves no room for error add a turn the rat finds a pocket of air just enough to help it
Video examples
What forgiveness can...
release you set yourself free grudges bitterness resentment they're all burdens they narrow our options our relationships our experiences of life
Video examples
Are Crows the Ultimate...
The meat is positioned so deep in the narrow box, it's out of reach of the crow's beak.
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10 TOP Natural History...
oh dear big cheeks and narrow bottlenecks
Example 1 of 10
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Kaui Hart Hemmings
American Writer
In putting setting to work, I like to think about long shots and close-ups. The long shot is the overall view of the place in which the characters live - the island, the town, the wide sweep of place. Then we narrow in. The close-up, the tight focus, makes the place different from anywhere else.
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Barack Obama
American President
Our public life withers when only the most extreme voices get attention. Most of all, democracy breaks down when the average person feels their voice doesn't matter; that the system is rigged in favor of the rich or the powerful or some narrow interest.
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Holly Hunter
American Actress
I love to look at physically beautiful people, and obviously others do, too. But there's such a narrow definition of what that is; the people who are my friends in life, the more I get to know them over the years, the more beautiful they are to me.
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Susan Sarandon
American Actress
To know that once you decide to look at life outside of the narrow limits of just your world and start to understand that you can make a difference in very simple ways - in volunteering and all the way up to bigger world problems.
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Taiye Selasi
Ghanaian Writer
When I'm working, I'm so narrowly focused on sound, language, rhythm, flow, that I rarely feel the emotion of the text. It's only after - long after - I've finished a piece that I can experience in any way its emotional charge.
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Eckhart Tolle
German Speaker
Narrow your life down to this moment. Your life situation may be full of problems - most life situations are - but find out if you have a problem at this moment. Do you have a problem now?
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Newt Gingrich
American Politician
If you live your life as a hostage to everybody else's decision, you either have to live a very narrow life, or you have to spend a lot of time in pain.
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Famke Janssen
Dutch Actress
There's certain things I try to avoid, as an actress, just to keep my world from being as narrow as it could be.
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Sean M. Carroll
American Scientist
I think it's important that science just doesn't stay within narrow boundaries.
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Faye Wattleton
Sociologist
I was raised in a very sheltered, narrow environment.
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Kaui Hart Hemmings
American Writer
In putting setting to work, I like to think about long shots and close-ups. The long shot is the overall view of the place in which the characters live - the island, the town, the wide sweep of place. Then we narrow in. The close-up, the tight focus, makes the place different from anywhere else.
Quote examples
Barack Obama
American President
Our public life withers when only the most extreme voices get attention. Most of all, democracy breaks down when the average person feels their voice doesn't matter; that the system is rigged in favor of the rich or the powerful or some narrow interest.
Quote examples
Holly Hunter
American Actress
I love to look at physically beautiful people, and obviously others do, too. But there's such a narrow definition of what that is; the people who are my friends in life, the more I get to know them over the years, the more beautiful they are to me.
Quote examples
Susan Sarandon
American Actress
To know that once you decide to look at life outside of the narrow limits of just your world and start to understand that you can make a difference in very simple ways - in volunteering and all the way up to bigger world problems.
Quote examples
Taiye Selasi
Ghanaian Writer
When I'm working, I'm so narrowly focused on sound, language, rhythm, flow, that I rarely feel the emotion of the text. It's only after - long after - I've finished a piece that I can experience in any way its emotional charge.
Quote examples
Eckhart Tolle
German Speaker
Narrow your life down to this moment. Your life situation may be full of problems - most life situations are - but find out if you have a problem at this moment. Do you have a problem now?
Quote examples
Newt Gingrich
American Politician
If you live your life as a hostage to everybody else's decision, you either have to live a very narrow life, or you have to spend a lot of time in pain.
Quote examples
Famke Janssen
Dutch Actress
There's certain things I try to avoid, as an actress, just to keep my world from being as narrow as it could be.
Quote examples
Sean M. Carroll
American Scientist
I think it's important that science just doesn't stay within narrow boundaries.
Quote examples
Faye Wattleton
Sociologist
I was raised in a very sheltered, narrow environment.
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