More restricted

Usage examples of narrower.

The great advantage which the classical historians possess over those of modern times is in unity of plan, of course greatly facilitated by the narrower sphere to which their researches were confined.

The compound at Inividra could have been a duplicate of that at Isahl, except that it is set upon a broader hill, rather than enclosing one with its walls, and that the valley in which the compound is set is narrower, with more rugged and drier-looking hills to north and east.

Width is between four and five most of the way, a few places narrower, a few wider.

They passed over the wire at less than a hundred and fifty feet, then the racecourse-like stretch of open ground, then the lower, unmanned fence on the Finnish side, and a narrower space clear of trees, then the forest that engulfed both sides of the border at that point.

They were passing over thick fir forest now, in a narrower valley that looked very much like a pen, something into which he could be driven, and boxed.

The trail grew steadily narrower and more treacherous as they ascended, and was finally interrupted by a long patch of shifting scree.

The trail seemed narrower than he remembered, but the briar finally fell away, and Rupert whispered for the party to stop a moment.

The rocky way was narrower than he would have liked, though Benrian had promised him there was a clearing near the entrance to Grimhold from which his men could organize and fight.

Atlantic, which had been widening since the shattering of Pangaea, was still much narrower than in human times: no more than five hundred kilometers wide at its narrowest point.

All the afternoon he followed that rising road, which was somewhat narrower than the great highway, and which now led through a region with more rocks than tilled fields.