How to Use narrow in a Sentence

narrow

1 of 3 adjective

• The study was narrow in scope.
• We crossed at the narrowest part of the river.
• The city's ancient streets are too narrow for buses.
• His shoulders are very narrow.
• They offer a narrow range of flavors: chocolate, strawberry, and vanilla.
• The gap to the next rung is narrow.
  — Ryan Brennan, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 17 Mar. 2026
• And at some points the the road gets so narrow.
  — AFAR Media, 30 May 2026
• The split is narrow, but telling.
  — Diana Spehar, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
• The green is as narrow as eight paces across but does widen in the back.
  — Josh Peter, USA TODAY, 14 June 2023
• But the window for such a shift is very narrow.
  — Thomas Wright, The Atlantic, 19 June 2026
• Most recent polls show him with a narrow lead.
  — Peter Slevin, New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2026
• But in a short film, the narrow focus works.
  — Joe Reid, Vulture, 10 Mar. 2026
• Our plan was to reach one of the strait's narrowest points.
  — Sohel Uddin, CBS News, 17 Apr. 2026
• The cold air pushes are more narrow.
  — Ron Smiley, CBS News, 17 Feb. 2026
• The door, in his telling, is always narrow.
  — Vibhas Ratanjee, Forbes.com, 19 June 2026
• That narrow stretch right inside your front door.
  — Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Kansas City Star, 31 Mar. 2026
• But that framing now feels too narrow.
  — Rahul Saluja, Forbes.com, 15 May 2026
• But that’s a pretty narrow use case.
  — Katie Kilkenny, HollywoodReporter, 19 Sep. 2025
• Make deep, narrow holes in the medium.
  — Barbara Gillette, The Spruce, 31 Jan. 2026
• Add ice to a tall narrow glass pulled from the freezer and add chilled whisky.
  — Jeremy Repanich, Robb Report, 25 Oct. 2025
• The narrow tree produces small, blue-toned cones that look like berries.
  — Madeline Buiano, Martha Stewart, 17 Feb. 2026
• Straw brushes are thin and narrow.
  — Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 24 Apr. 2026
• Let’s switch to a narrower lens.
  — Brooks Kubena, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2025
• So, your focus gets very narrow.
  — James Brizuela, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Aug. 2025
• And while running shoes tend to lean narrow, the toe-box on this style is a bit wider.
  — Kaelin Dodge, InStyle, 25 May 2026
• The bed fits into a narrow backyard and leaves room to walk around it.
  — Leanne Potts, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Feb. 2026
• My family lived on a narrow street, not far from the town square.
  — Literary Hub, 24 Apr. 2026
• The importance of a narrow body comes down to physics.
  — Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 9 Feb. 2026
• How much narrower does the funnel need to be?
  — Troy Renck, Denver Post, 30 Apr. 2026
• As a bonus, this ski is narrow enough to fit inside classic tracks.
  — Benjamin Tepler, Outside, 23 Jan. 2026

narrow

2 of 3 verb

• The vase narrows at its top.
• His eyes narrowed as he focused on the words in front of him.
• The path was narrowed by overgrowth.
• You'll need to narrow the focus of your paper to one central idea.
• The gap between their salaries was beginning to narrow.
• That narrows the base from which cuts can be made.
  — Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board, The Orlando Sentinel, 27 Feb. 2026
• Lanes will be narrowed to a 10-foot width.
  — Brian Sherrod, CBS News, 14 Apr. 2026
• But try to narrow the list to just rock and you’re left with … well … what?
  — Jim Harrington, SPIN, 8 Nov. 2023
• And the gap is narrowing faster off the court.
  — Hank Tucker, Forbes.com, 22 May 2026
• Overextend it, and your view can narrow too far.
  — Mary Crossan, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
• Maybe this will help narrow your scope this weekend.
  — Savannah Salazar, Vulture, 24 Oct. 2025
• Use these clues to narrow down your guesses.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
• Use these clues to narrow down your guesses.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 12 June 2026
• Use these clues to narrow down your guesses.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026
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  — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 27 May 2026
• Use these clues to narrow down your guesses.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 19 May 2026
• Use these clues to narrow down your guesses.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 17 May 2026
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  — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 16 May 2026
• Use these clues to narrow down your guesses.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 14 May 2026
• Use these clues to narrow down your guesses.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 9 May 2026
• Use these clues to narrow down your guesses.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
• Use these clues to narrow down your guesses.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
• Use these clues to narrow down your guesses.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
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  — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
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  — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2025
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  — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
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  — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
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  — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
• Use these clues to narrow down your guesses.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 6 Sep. 2025
• Use these clues to narrow down your guesses.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025

narrow

3 of 3 noun

• Bass bite has slowed but there is still a few coming from the narrows.
  — sacbee, 31 July 2017
• The narrows are often cooler than the rest of the area.
  — Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2026
• The narrows had open water last week, then froze over a little a few days ago.
  — John Myers, Twin Cities, 27 Feb. 2017
• Part of it was all of the narrow misses the Sabres had that could have swung the game.
  — Matthew Fairburn, New York Times, 1 Feb. 2026
• One evening, a mother bear and two cubs slowly picked their way along the shore across the narrows.
  — Chris Santella, chicagotribune.com, 5 Sep. 2017
• As their fertility window narrows, they’re faced with less time to have more than one child.
  — Adrianna Rodriguez, USA Today, 26 Sep. 2025
• But when the spread narrows or inverts, the opposite happens.
  — Robert Daugherty, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
• Those children crowd out their peers, and the path to upward mobility narrows.
  — Jay Caspian Kang, New Yorker, 23 June 2025
• While the jobs gap between blacks and whites narrows, other economic gaps between the races persist. Valerie Wilson, demographic economist at Economic Policy Institute, points to huge disparities in wealth.
  — Sharon Nunn, WSJ, 11 Mar. 2018
• Shore anglers continue to pick trout from the narrows with Power Bait or nightcrawlers.
  — sacbee, 10 Oct. 2017
• Teams wait for direction, data keeps moving and the window to contain narrows.
  — Tony Bradley, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
• When the departure window narrows, log in again within one to two days before departure.
  — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 11 Dec. 2025
• Along the narrow, two‑lane mountain road were slopes on either side, planted with rice or else wild with tropical flora and giant ferns.
  — Tereza Shkurtaj, PEOPLE, 13 Sep. 2025
• And ever since, ships full of travelers, weary from long journeys, have passed through the narrows, the winds of the Atlantic at their backs.
  — Washington Examiner Staff, The Washington Examiner, 3 July 2026
• The mouth of the narrows, the flats on the east side from the mouth up past the ranch house north and from the ranch house to the island in the afternoon when the fish are over deep water.
  — sacbee, 30 Apr. 2018
• That's a tactic used even today in the narrows of the Strait of Hormuz, through which 20% of the world's oil passes.
  — Jon Gambrell, USA TODAY, 10 Jan. 2020
• Long before the ship reaches the pier, the scenery begins to build as mountains rise, the water narrows and small farms or villages appear in unlikely places.
  — David Nikel, Forbes.com, 7 May 2026
• The sweeping skyline narrows and then gives way to the Blue Ridge Mountains—I’m almost home.
  — Sheri Castle, Southern Living, 31 Aug. 2025
• With every vehicle strike and dog attack on Chiloé Island, the margin for survival narrows.
  — Ryan Brennan, Sacbee.com, 24 Apr. 2026
• Dutch voters cast ballots today in a parliamentary election in which a far-right party that led opinion polls for months has seen its advantage narrow into a three-horse race.
  — Prashant Rao, semafor.com, 29 Oct. 2025
• The fixation on a single dream school narrows opportunity, heightens stress, and sometimes backfires.
  — Jeffrey Selingo, Time, 9 Oct. 2025
• After two and half days of lugging 50-pound packs, the family reached the narrows, a spot in the river surrounded by solid rock up to 40 feet high on each side.
  — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 11 Sep. 2019
• Toward Honshu’s southern tip, Japan’s largest island narrows, yet the landscape remains as dramatic as ever.
  — James March, Travel + Leisure, 13 Dec. 2025
• As quantum computing continues its rapid advancement, the window for preparation narrows.
  — Antonio Sanchez, Forbes.com, 18 June 2025
• Time is told by the rising up and rolling down of the sunlight on the cliffs, by the glimpse of Cassiopeia in the narrows turning around the polestar through the stardust of perfect clear September nights.
  — Christopher Ketcham, Harper's magazine, 24 June 2019
• The round element sat low, just above a narrow black heel tip, giving the otherwise classic cap-toe pump a more directional finish while still keeping the silhouette narrow and dressy.
  — Maggie Clancy, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
• When your nervous system is activated, your thinking narrows and your reactions become automatic.
  — Bryan Robinson, Forbes.com, 30 Mar. 2026
• Many famed surf spots to the south — like Doheny, San Clemente and San Onofre — also have seen the beach narrow precipitously.
  — James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 20 Feb. 2026
• Creative problem-solving narrows as cognitive load accumulates.
  — Scott Hutcheson, Fortune, 10 Mar. 2026
• After the nominations are out, the playing field narrows and the lobbying for coverage during the voting period intensifies.
  — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 13 Aug. 2025