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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
narrow . - noun A
narrow part of anavigable waterway .
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Examples
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Use the "filter" tool on our interactive chart to remove the two recent partisan polls, and the Kirk margin narrows to roughly 1 point (40.5% to 39.6%).
Dueling Partisan Polls Confirm A Toss-Up In Illinois Senate Race The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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Use the "filter" tool on our interactive chart to remove the two recent partisan polls, and the Kirk margin narrows to roughly 1 point (40.5% to 39.6%).
Dueling Partisan Polls Confirm A Toss-Up In Illinois Senate Race The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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On each side of the narrows is a steep cliff, one of which is so high that its sharp top reaches the sky.
Odysseus, the Hero of Ithaca Adapted from the Third Book of the Primary Schools of Athens, Greece 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1879
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The ranges of mountains which nearly surround the valley of the springs, as they follow the course of the river down on each side, become greatly approximated to each other, and confining that stream to very small borders and compressed breadth, constitutes what is here termed the narrows; and again expanding or receding from each other, form Salt river valley.
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At the foot of the bay it suddenly contracts, and winds through a crooked passage called the narrows, and again opens and forms a small bay directly above the falls.
History of New Brunswick Peter Fisher 1815
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A 5-mile artificials-only area in the so-called "narrows" near Lamar is the most popular.
A STATE-BY-STATE GUIDE TO THE HOTTEST LAKES, RIVERS, STREAMS, AND HONEY HOLES IN AMERICA 2007
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So that kind of narrows it down to Ronald ` s side of the family who she ` s trying to blame.
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_______________________Saint Charles, IL: How did you find the "narrows" period correlates with menopause?
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So that kind of narrows down his timing with respect to did he have the capability of committing the crime.
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So, that kind of narrows down his timing, with respect to, did he have the capability of committing the crime?
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