I first set my eyes on sweet Molly Malone, As she wheeled her wheelbarrow through streets broad and narrow, Crying, Cockles and mussels! alive, alive, oh!. From LearnThat.org. [from Cockles and Mussels, Oxford Song Book.]
A brilliant but narrow-minded judge. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
The narrow sense of a word. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
A narrow bridge. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Won by a narrow margin. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
I cannot narrow down the rules for this game. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
In this case the translation of the English word narrow to German. From Wordnik.com. [KDE UserBase - Recent changes [en]] Reference
But they do not want to get trapped in what they call a narrow strategy. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 8, 2008] Reference
It sounds like he just sort of grabbed on and whooshed down the tunnel—what we call the narrow path—right along with you. From Wordnik.com. [Night World No. 2] Reference
The signal doesn't break up in narrow canyons, so that's good. From Wordnik.com. [05/29/2005 - 06/05/2005] Reference
It makes for difficult maneuvering in narrow bookstore aisles. From Wordnik.com. [Stocking Up on Books for the New Year (cuz you can never have too many) « So Many Books] Reference
Mulder came back into the room, his expression narrow and angry. From Wordnik.com. [FAN FICTION: The Talisman, an X-Files Tale] Reference
“Public interest” is not to be confined within narrow limits. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-10-01] Reference
But there were men whose minds were not confined within narrow limits. From Wordnik.com. [The Railway At War] Reference
What do you call a narrow strip of land connecting tow other pieces of land?. From Wordnik.com. [The geographical reader : for the Dixie children,] Reference
Andy, #7, The dictionary points to the meaning of the word narrow-minded. From Wordnik.com. [All articles at Blogcritics] Reference
Anonymous 12;21 is delusional if he calls the narrow win of Kirk's "wildly popular". From Wordnik.com. [My Question for Mark Kirk: Why is Hate Baiting an Acceptable Political Weapon?] Reference
Varieties: Philadelphia circulation coins from 1979 come in narrow and wide rim versions. From Wordnik.com. [Susan B. Anthony Dollar, 1979-1999 : Coin Guide] Reference
In the reviews and criticism they ran, they slanted heavily toward expertise in narrow pop fields. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing] Reference
The other side is towing the jeep makes us even longer and bigger, a problem in narrow colonial towns. From Wordnik.com. [Hotels-motels Mexico] Reference
But even with regard to Iraq here, Odierno seems to me to be thinking too much in narrow operational terms. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Obama, Odierno, and Iraq] Reference
The legs of the other are by an invisible fatality prevented from carrying him beyond certain narrow limits. From Wordnik.com. [As I Please] Reference
Of course, these public policy studies have limited benefits because they operate within narrow constraints. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Bag Tax] Reference
And maybe in narrow instances, there is a way to harness certain folks prediliction for cupidity for the public good. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-03-01] Reference
Pride and ignorance contributed, during the first period, to confine within narrow limits the science of the Roman law. From Wordnik.com. [The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire] Reference
The second can be jammed but it is capable of course correction within narrow limits during the early stages of flight. From Wordnik.com. [Men and Missiles] Reference
Five years in narrow walls had unfitted me for the enormous declivity of the stairway, for the vastitude of the prison yard. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 22] Reference
Should employers be allowed to insist that everybody who works for them conveniently fit into certain narrow specifications?. From Wordnik.com. [Discrimination is a Broken Promise] Reference
We all go to the movies to be entertained, but some of us do not require to be entertained within narrow, predictable limits. From Wordnik.com. ["A case of arrested development"] Reference
The railroad is of the genus known as narrow-gauge; the roadbed was not constructed on the principles laid down by the Romans. From Wordnik.com. [Le Petit Nord or, Annals of a Labrador Harbour] Reference
I'd rather take a large story and shape it to fit within narrow limits than start with a smaller story and build a universe around it. From Wordnik.com. [March 25th, 2005] Reference
It splits in narrow strata, and the cleavage is so sharp that it appears machine-cut – the remnants of a giant factory of roofing slabs. From Wordnik.com. [High Albania] Reference
Moreover, a niche operator or one within narrow geographic limits can defend the barricades of competitive advantage with comparative ease. From Wordnik.com. [The Moguls’ New Clothes] Reference
(the last, however, within narrow overall limits). From Wordnik.com. [Simon Kuznets - Prize Lecture] Reference
They are a bit narrow, which is good for my narrow foots. From Wordnik.com. [Zappos.com: new styles] Reference
All good suits have "besom" pockets - that is, a narrow edge sewn in two lines around the slit. From Wordnik.com. [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference
Conservatives are called narrow minded, nut jobs, baggers, wing-nuts, violent domestic terrorists. From Wordnik.com. [Political Pistachio] Reference
The most radical of the restructuring suggestions is the so-called narrow bank which would essentially take deposits and make loans. From Wordnik.com. [Business News] Reference
The seat is also narrow, which isn't that much of an advantage if planning to spend a great deal of time on it, but it does the job. From Wordnik.com. [Top Speed] Reference
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