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Example sentences for "narrow compass"

  • To bring into a narrow compass; to compress.

  • Containing the substance or general principles of a subject or work in a narrow compass; abridged; summarized.

  • To crowd or cram into a narrow compass; to press together or condense.

  • The Jews were but a small nation, and confined to a narrow compass in the world.

  • Containing the substance oe general principles of a subject or work in a narrow compass; abridged; summarized.

  • For (as we have seen) when a Diaphanous Body comes to be reduc'd to very Minute parts, it thereby requires a Multitude of Little Surfaces within a Narrow compass.

  • It is a particular System of Providence, that lies in a narrow Compass.

  • All the real Pleasures and Conveniences of Life lie in a narrow Compass; but it is the Humour of Mankind to be always looking forward, and straining after one who has got the Start of them in Wealth and Honour.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    being again; blood heat; class compartment; could keep; delegate from; fall down the chimney; head girl; last message; little dreaming; lukewarm water; man and; minimum rates; narrow channel; narrow compass; narrow gauge; narrow lane; narrow ledge; narrow neck; narrow opening; narrow path; narrow ridge; narrow street; narrow strip; only true; other quarters; save her