In spite of the moonlight, and because of the deep shadows it cast, we narrowly escaped being dashed from our horses by low-hanging branches of the trees on either side.
She returned it hotly, striking down many of our good fellows; I myself narrowly escaped one of the shot, which hit a man at my side, carrying away his right arm clear from the shoulder.
I narrowly escaped seeing my sister die--seeing her murdered.
We were in a cab at the time, a lucky thing, because, when it burst upon me, I narrowly escaped hysterics.
If so, we are prepared to looknarrowly into its Forms.
But with all his force and energy, he was too narrowly selfish and grasping to take much trouble to frame an elaborate policy.
With the capture of Adam Gordon, after a hand-to-hand tussle with Edward in which the king's son narrowly escaped with his life, the resistance in the south was at an end.
Let him go hang; he will be in no mood to fight me further, seeing how narrowly he has missed being killed.
Hector then aimed at Idomeneus son of Deucalion as he was standing on his chariot, and very narrowly missed him, but the spear hit Coiranus, a follower and charioteer of Meriones who had come with him from Lyctus.
The cold forced them to kindle a fire, which before daybreak set the mats in a blaze; and the two sleepers narrowly escaped being burned along with their hut.
At the foot of the rapids of La Chine, and immediately above Montreal, his canoe was overset, two of his men and an Indian boy were drowned, all his papers were lost, and he himself narrowly escaped.
This circumstance being reported to the governor, it was determined that all his proceedings should be narrowly watched, and any scheme of that nature counteracted.
Yet, if narrowly looked into, it is a proposition under which there are more heretics and unbelievers than all the other doctrines of religion put together.
In the case described by me of the young foal which was narrowly striped over nearly all its body, there was no doubt about the early and complete disappearance of the stripes.
He was surrounded by councillors, who watched his every motion, read all his correspondence, and assisted at all his conferences, while the councillors were themselves narrowly watched by the commonalty.
Madame Francois was still talking to old Madame Chantemesse, both standing and arguing about the price of turnips, and Florent now called to mind hownarrowly he had escaped being shot over yonder by the wall of Saint Eustache.
The man then made a wide detour, and sounded the ground beneath him before advancing, having but narrowly escaped from being swallowed up and buried beneath one of those smiling plains which he could hear cracking at each step he took.
The two boatswains stood aloof encouraging their respective parties; while the doctor and Tidy, who attempted to act the part of pacificators, were knocked over, the Irishman narrowlyescaping being thrown into the sea.
They narrowly escaped from some of the smaller pieces of the burnt fragments of the ship, which came down on the raft.
The doctor could scarcely help laughing at Dan's mistake, into which he himself had, however, narrowly escaped falling.
One day, Gerald met with yet another disagreeable adventure in the Zoo, and again narrowly escaped a terrible death.
King Agrando remembers the dangers which you, Gerald, so narrowly escaped during our journey in the Ivenia; and he does not wish that a similar unhappy occurrence should cast a reflection upon any of his people here.
There, too, they saw the wrecked pavilion, and learned for the first time how narrowly they had avoided being buried in its ruins.
At once two or three of the hostile airships made a dart at the place where they had appeared, and so impetuous was their rush that they narrowly missed ramming one another.
You, too, but narrowly escaped the blandishments of the Sorceress, blandishments to which many another would have succumbed.
Several stones were thrown at the marines: their lieutenant, Mr. Phillips, narrowly escaped being stabbed by knocking down the assailant with the butt end of his musket.
Here he narrowly escaped shipwreck a second time, but, with the assistance of the wonder-stricken inhabitants, reached in safety the roads of Rostello.
The elephant had been shot in Mushari, the country where I afterwards narrowly escaped being eaten.
The following morning, after narrowly escaping shooting the rapids, owing to a mistake in Bt.
Ezekiel watched him narrowly with colorless eyes beneath his white lashes.
He gets renown, who, to the halter near, But narrowly escapes, and buys it dear.
Mr. Cope then narrowly searched the clothes, and in the coat-pocket he found a strip of cloth folded up carefully.
Having there seen, and narrowly escaped being apprehended by a police-officer, who he knew was acquainted with his person, he again set out on his way from detection and reached Edinburgh in safety.
His worship, during his address, was assaulted with stones, and a very large one very narrowly missed striking him on the head.
Titus, anxious to reconnoitre the ground, advanced with a few followers to the north wall, where he narrowly escaped being taken prisoner.
He took ship for Rome, and after being tempest-tossed and narrowly escaping shipwreck, he arrived at his destination at the favorable moment when Octavius and Antony had once more agreed upon the Brundisian treaty.
These and other circumstances which need not be narrated, made Mr. Kyffin resolve to watch very narrowly the proceedings of Mr. Sleech for the future.
I trembled as I thought how narrowly I had escaped his fate.
Margiana ordered the ship to be searched as narrowly as possible; but she could not find the man whom she so passionately longed to recover, as well out of love to him, as out of that generosity which was her distinguishing character.
I paid him liberally, and sent him back directing him to observe narrowly where he left me, and not to fail to come back with the ass to-morrow morning to carry me back again.
I thanked him for the favour he did me; and as soon as I was left alone, I comforted myself for the loss of my eye, by considering that I had very narrowly escaped a much greater danger.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "narrowly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: barely; closely; hardly; nearly
