His nose is wide at the bridge, but narrows to an unusual point at the end.
He had never heard of Knapps Narrows a few days before, or of Tilghman Island, where the Narrows were located.
He told of their conversation at the Narrows and of the talk with Orvil Harris that morning.
At 7 o'clock we arrived at the narrows which separate Christie and North Pole Lakes, where we found the greater number of the Esquimaux we had seen, encamped, waiting for deer crossing over.
This question, taken in connection with the Slavery issue, and the Filibustering issue, narrows the contest down to one between Fillmore and Fremont.
We are right glad of it, as it narrows the contest down to one between Fillmore and Fremont, and especially at the North.
This tableland is less than a mile wide and narrows still more as it approaches Quebec.
Forty miles above Quebec the St Lawrence channel narrows to only a quarter of a mile, and the down current becomes very swift indeed.
It passed one morning into the narrows of the Cape Verde Islands, and there was dressed from stem to stern with flags.
He saw the meetings of ships in the narrows of the great trade-routes, barkentine and schooner, tramp and liner, and in and out amongst them like the gray shadows of sharks seen beneath the water, the long cruisers of the fleet.
From this point to Cape Hatteras the Blake Plateau narrows and disappears.
The canyon gradually narrows and shallows as it cuts across the lower continental rise.
The plain is shallowest and widest just east of the Northeast Providence Channel and deepens and narrows toward its northern and southern ends.
He declared his intention was to oblige Mr. Bryson to resign his commission and go down the Narrows with him and his men.
Fort Tompkins stands on a height opposite to Fort La Fayette, and on the shore of Staten Island is a battery which defends the Narrows by a raking fire.
Two new fortifications are to be built outside of theNarrows on rocks, in order still better to defend the entrance to New York, by firing crosswise at vessels, and are intended to serve as advanced posts to Forts La Fayette and Tompkins.
When an enemy's fleet blockades New York, the shipping make to Sandy Hook bay, properly called Raritan bay, for shelter against storms, and are thus enabled to blockade the Narrows very closely.
Primary cancer in the small intestine appears in the form of lymphoma; it readily ulcerates, and rather widens than narrows the channel of the bowel.
This fold is most marked between the ages of three and twelve, and when pronounced narrows the orifice to one-half or one-third of the whole calibre of the tube.
I see that the river narrows again," the other boy replied instantly.
There is in some Christians an absorption in the work of grace within their own hearts, an individualistic salvation-seeking that, like all selfishness, defeats its end; for it narrows and impoverishes the inner life thus sedulously cherished.
Our sectarianism stints and narrows our apprehensions of the Divine grace.
At the same time, this arrangement, by distancing the rings from the dental neck that narrowsoff conically, added to the firmness of the prosthesis.
As the flagship entered the ravine of the narrows Cervera signalled to his captains, "I wish you a speedy victory!
The smaller anchored in the western opening of the straits, furthest from the advance of the enemy's armada, and was detailed to prevent any attack through the narrows on the Greek rear.
The sight of the Egypto-Roman fleet crowding down to the narrows with their sails bent on their yards showed that they meant to risk putting to sea, and Octavian embarked on Agrippa's fleet, with picked reinforcements from the legions.
Early in the day they began to pass one by one the narrows at Chalcis, now spanned by a bridge.
Xerxes had been so impressed by the failure of his great armada to force the narrows of Salamis that he had changed all his plans.
Rojdestvensky meant to pass the perilous straits in daylight, and he calculated that by noon next day the fleet would be in the narrows of Tsu-shima.
On the third day the sea was calm and the Persians tried to force the narrows by a frontal attack.
Late on Saturday, 2 July, he appealed to Admiral Sampson to help him by forcing the narrows at all costs, and in the early hours of Sunday, the 3rd, he sent off to his Government a dispatch which was a confession of failure.
In the narrowsof the entrance some of his largest ships were anchored.
It arrived at theNarrows about the 29th of August, and on the 30th, Nicholls demanded the surrender of the town.
To the west of the Terrace the lake narrows very greatly, and is spanned by a light iron structure, called the Bow Bridge, from its peculiar shape.
The bay herenarrows rapidly, and the shores of Staten and Long Islands are scarcely a mile apart.
The Nile, which below is nearly a mile across, narrows to a bare 200 yards.
God narrows Himself to come near man, and man narrows himself to come near God.
We must avoid fastidiousness; neatness, when it is moderate, is a virtue; but when it is carried to an extreme, it narrows the mind.
On the bay the warriors paddled In canoes of bark or rawhide, Or in mighty redwood dugouts Dared the currents of the narrows Training warriors to be ready To defend their shores and harbor.
Swiftly northward raced the sentries In their light canoes of deerskin-- Through the narrows to Bonita, On the ocean to Bolinas.
There are at present large synthetic fiber plants in Richmond, Martinsville, Roanoke, Waynesboro, Narrows and Front Royal.
They proceeded to the New River and to an area in the present town of Narrows in Giles County.
A lobe of fine till extends into the valley from the northeast and narrows the outlet.
The gorge between Spruce and Moses mountains, locally called "Sugar Hollow," narrows southward as it rises to the col, and the rock floor is buried under till and stratified drift to depths of 25 to 50 feet.
But, after rolling out of the narrows between the rocks, it spreads abroad in a slacker and stiller flood, and turns into an island a rock that lies in its course.
The interior is washed and encompassed by the ocean; and this, through the circuitous winds of the interstices, now straitens into the narrows of a firth, now advances into ampler bays, forming a number of islands.
At the place where the mesa narrows between these mounds and the pueblos to the west, a wall was built from one edge of the mesa to the other to defend the trail on this side.
The ancient pueblo crowned the ridge of the terrace which narrows here to 30 or 40 feet, so that ancient Walpi was an elongated pueblo, with narrow passageways and no rectangular court.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "narrows" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
