Another popular trick by which fairies or ghosts are made to appear gradually in motion-picture scenes is the one by which the lens is narrowed down or opened up gradually.
If a ghost is to appear, the hole through which the light strikes the lens is narrowed down so that only the brightest objects are photographed.
The femur is nearly straight and narrowed at both ends; along its inner border, in the position occupied by the stridulating apparatus of the hind leg of the Grasshoppers, is a shallow longitudinal groove, fringed by stiff bristles.
In many Insects the thoracic portion of the dorsal vessel is greatly narrowed and non-valvular, forming the aorta of most writers on Insect Anatomy.
This emphasis on the doctrine of race shows the emphasis that Sun put upon race once he had narrowed down the old world-society to the Chinese race-nation.
The doctrine of nationalism narrowed the field of the application of Confucianism from the whole civilized world to the state-ized society of the Chinese race-nation.
Ranny's voice was cool and level, but his eyes had narrowed and a spot of color glowed on each cheek.
Dale's eyes narrowed a bit as he surveyed the grinning, freckled face before him.
His eyes narrowed ominously as they rested on Harry Vedder chatting affably with the cause of Ranny's ill temper.
He looked down at her through narrowed eyes, jerking his mules savagely and swearing at them in an undertone.
The village milliner fell back, hands on hips, thin lips screwed up, and regarded the possible purchaser throughnarrowed eyes of simulated ecstasy.
His concluding words were the refrain of a familiar old ballad, and he continued to hum this as he straightened up and set his hands on his hips, regarding the twins through wickedly narrowed eyes.
Together they stepped out into the soft dusk of the summer night, followed by the narrowed gaze of Blatch Turrentine's grey eyes.
For a moment he stared at Bonbright, trying to look him down; then those odd, whitey-grey eyesnarrowed to mere slits.
Old Jephthah narrowed his eyes and chuckled in luxurious enjoyment of the situation.
The professor studied it through narrowed eyes from a vantage-point far to one side.
He stared at Professor Duchard through narrowed eyes, half-convinced that the man was mad.
Brown eyes narrowed with excitement, Elaine's sweetheart held out the splinter of glass he had picked up.
All my inner life and life-aims had become narrowed to the circle of self-culture and self-education.
He hesitated and regarded her fixedly for a moment through narrowed lids.
Cummack narrowed his eyes, and his face, generally relaxed and amiable, grew stern and menacing.
The gully narrowed and narrowed until there was a mere thread of snow lying between two walls of rock, which came to an abrupt termination at the top of a precipice that intervened between it and the glacier.
The bay narrowed to a mile in width where we came upon it, and ran several miles inland to a swamp, round the head of which we must go.
Compared with the vastness and duration of the universe, it is narrowed down to a mere point.
Divine creating and moving, commanding and naming, seeing and approving, working and resting, must not benarrowed down to the standard of our finite personality, and conceived under human limitations.
Its big gates swung together as we dashed through the narrowed opening.
Clutching the letter tightly, I slipped between the narrowed ranks, and gained the middle of the street, not without a quickened beat of my heart.
A little higher up the valley narrowed again, the sides came closer and closer, until they closed in abruptly in a rounded precipice, down which in the wet season it was evident that a waterfall leaped from a height above.
As they proceeded, the dip became more decided, and after two hours' riding the sidesnarrowed in.
When the popular member is narrowed in his ideas, and rendered timid in his proceedings, the service of the crown will be the sole nursery of statesmen.
The whole world seemed mysteriously to have narrowed to one girl, Esme.
Her chin was raised, and she glanced scornfully at him from under her narrowed lids.
The curl of lip and narrowed eye bespoke a degree of disdain quite out of proportion to the offense.
The new Duke stood up proudly, gazing at us with frowning brows and lowering, narrowed eyes.
Ashton-Kirk's eyes narrowed as Dennison proceeded: "And he seemed to have some confidence in its turning out well.
Nora made a vague answer to this, for at the moment she was watching the investigator, who stood with narrowed eyes, a thoughtful wrinkle between his brows, and one hand stroking his chin.
This attack was carried on from February 21st to 26th on the right bank of the Meuse and narrowed its front as it advanced, finally stopping on the sixth day at Poivre Hill and Douaumont.
On July 11th=, the enemy narrowed their attacking front, from Fleury to Damloup.
Somewhat further on, the cave dipped and narrowed so that I had to bend nearly double to pass, my face being just above the water as I went.
Here there were quite a number of windows such as Marjory had described, all of them, though wide on the inner side, narrowed to mere slits on the outer.
The ridge on his left became almost a sheer wall; on his right a second ridge closed in until the gorge had narrowed to a hundred feet in width, choked by huge masses of rock thrown there in some mighty upheaval of past ages.
From east and west the wild mountain ridges closed in, and with each mile's progress the stream narrowed and grew swifter, until again it was running between chasm walls that rose black and silent over the adventurers' heads.
Before us the valley narrowed considerably, the forest became denser, the country on the south side was broken with rounded hills, and on the north the noble cliffs of the Kymore dipped down to the river.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "narrowed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
