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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
narrowly
adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
narrowly avoided
▪ Alan narrowly avoided an accident.
narrowly beat sb (=by only a few points, votes etc)
▪ New Zealand narrowly beat the Springboks in South Africa.
narrowly escape sth (=only just avoid having something bad happen to you)
▪ The firemen narrowly escaped being killed by the explosion.
narrowly missed
▪ The bullet narrowly missed her heart.
narrowly missed
▪ They narrowly missed being killed in the fire.
narrowly (=by only a small amount)
▪ In 1916 he narrowly won re-election.
narrowly (=by a small majority)
▪ The Senate voted narrowly to continue funding the controversial project.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
defined
▪ Secondly, the competition of economic theory is cast solely in terms of price competition and narrowly defined profit maximisation.
▪ In its narrowly defined sense the responsibility of stewardship is to demonstrate that those assets have not been misappropriated.
▪ Blacks, on the other hand, harbour a much more narrowly defined set of possibilities on how they might advance.
▪ This kind of accountability goes beyond the narrowly defined stewardship of assets to include responsibility for the performance of those assets.
▪ Conclusion From its earliest origins, rape was a narrowly defined offence.
escaped
▪ His three year-old daughter Jade narrowly escaped death when bullets were fired through the front door.
▪ With Emma he had played with fire and narrowly escaped burning.
▪ Read in studio A baby boy narrowly escaped death when his pram was crushed between a car and a garden wall.
▪ A teenage mail-room worker at the Anglian Water headquarters in Huntingdon narrowly escaped injury when the package she was handling exploded.
■ VERB
avert
▪ A second jet disaster was narrowly averted in Bogota on Thursday.
avoid
▪ He sped away with them still on amber, narrowly avoiding a car coming the other way.
▪ And Chrysler narrowly avoided a major strike in August at its Detroit axle plant, another aging factory targeted for shutdown.
▪ This was narrowly avoided by producing a new programming scheme, involving local sponsorship as the future funders of individual exhibitions.
▪ It almost caused numerous accidents, here narrowly avoiding a head-on collision.
▪ An assault on the office building angered the men in the yard and violence was narrowly avoided.
▪ Two children in the car were rescued unhurt, and a woman inside the house narrowly avoided being hit by debris.
beat
▪ Although they were narrowly beaten it was a super effort by the team.
▪ Bush narrowly beat Bill Clinton, 38 percent to 37 percent.
▪ It narrowly beat much bigger rival and fellow supermarkets group J Sainsbury to the top slot, and outshone Tesco.
▪ In 1995, Giftrust narrowly beat the S &038; P 500.
▪ Odds-on favourite last time at Haydock, he was narrowly beaten into third place, but tomorrow should prove third time lucky.
defeat
▪ A motion on the opening day to put the work of the government to a vote of no confidence was narrowly defeated.
▪ Although they spent only $ 160,600 on their campaign, they narrowly defeated the proposition 51-49 percent.
▪ Our team was narrowly defeated in this year's area final.
▪ The housing project, which had been approved by the town council, was narrowly defeated by public vote.
▪ Auroux narrowly defeated the rival candidate, Henri Emmanuelli, by 113 votes to 109.
▪ Wilder narrowly defeated his Republican opponent in November 1989, his 6,700-vote victory being confirmed only after a recount.
▪ Mrs Field's amendment was narrowly defeated by votes to 21.
define
▪ It was a means of social improvement along narrowly defined routes, usually connected with the construction industry.
▪ Clinical managers have more narrowly defined responsibilities than generalists and have training and / or experience in a specific clinical area.
▪ The exceptional circumstances in which execution may be refused are very narrowly defined.
▪ Competition chili has no filler; it is simple, basic, and narrowly defined.
▪ In addition, school-to-work initiatives designed for narrowly defined occupations or industries may fail to attract students.
▪ No longer will it be sufficient to be good in a narrowly defined technical specialty.
escape
▪ For a moment Trent and Mariana were held immobile, stunned by the incredible power from which they had so narrowly escaped.
▪ During the war he narrowly escaped death dozens of times.
▪ In 1949 he narrowly escaped the first of three attempts on his life.
▪ Looking to her heart, she sees the chasm left by a death she narrowly escaped.
▪ Harassed by the nomad Scythians, whom he could not catch, he narrowly escaped the fate of Cyrus.
▪ Knowingly or not, others have narrowly escaped Pottker.
▪ He addressed a crowd of his civilian supporters at Baabda on Oct. 12, when he only narrowly escaped an assassination attempt.
▪ In both cases, the journalists narrowly escaped injury but the houses from which they had been transmitting were devastated.
focused
▪ It is too narrowly focused and costly.
▪ The analyst was a prisoner of his own narrowly focused ambition.
lose
▪ It is sobering to recall that Messrs Henderson, Cartledge and Bukovsky narrowly lost the debate.
miss
▪ It narrowly misses the corner of an executive's brief case.
▪ She narrowly missed adding to the silverware in both the mixed and women's doubles too.
▪ Two or three weeks ago, a crossbow quarrel narrowly missed my face as we crossed the Lawnmarket.
▪ One girl had a lucky escape when a fence post narrowly missed her head.
▪ It narrowly missed one of the occupants who was sitting in the front room.
▪ Bardot was still recovering from shock after narrowly missing being shot earlier this year by hunters killing her pets.
▪ John Hutt fled down the small village main street, narrowly missing two elderly ladies.
vote
▪ The council voted narrowly last month to rejoin the devolved government.
▪ In the referendum the population of Western Samoa voted narrowly in favour of the introduction of universal suffrage.
win
▪ In 1916 he had only narrowly won re-election.
▪ The committee is widely expected to recommend punishments light enough to let Gingrich retain the speakership he narrowly won on Tuesday.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A black BMW swerved, narrowly missing another car.
▪ A lot of workers have very narrowly focused job skills.
▪ Flying into the airport at Lima, we narrowly avoided a collision with another plane.
▪ He narrowly escaped arrest when the police raided his house.
▪ She narrowly failed to beat the world record in the 100 metres sprint.
▪ Smith narrowly lost the election.
▪ The article says Meyers narrowly escaped arrest in Rome last month.
▪ The bill was narrowly defeated in the Senate.
▪ The bullet narrowly missed her.
▪ We will have to consider your proposal very narrowly.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A similar proposal, brought by a shareholders rights group, was approved narrowly last year but rejected by the board.
▪ Although they spent only $ 160,600 on their campaign, they narrowly defeated the proposition 51-49 percent.
▪ Auroux narrowly defeated the rival candidate, Henri Emmanuelli, by 113 votes to 109.
▪ In both cases, the journalists narrowly escaped injury but the houses from which they had been transmitting were devastated.
▪ It narrowly misses the corner of an executive's brief case.
▪ Two or three weeks ago, a crossbow quarrel narrowly missed my face as we crossed the Lawnmarket.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Narrowly

Narrowly \Nar"row*ly\, adv. [AS. nearulice.]

  1. With little breadth; in a narrow manner.

  2. Without much extent; contractedly.

  3. With minute scrutiny; closely; as, to look or watch narrowly; to search narrowly.

  4. With a little margin or space; by a small distance; hence, closely; hardly; barely; only just; -- often with reference to an avoided danger or misfortune; as, he narrowly escaped.

  5. Sparingly; parsimoniously.

  6. With close adherence to the literal meaning of a text; as, to interpret narrowly; to construe narrowly; to read narrowly; -- used especially of laws and contracts.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
narrowly

Old English nearolice "narrowly, closely, strictly;" see narrow (adj.) + -ly (2). Meaning "only by a little" is attested from 1550s.

Wiktionary
narrowly

adv. 1 In a narrow manner; without flexibility or latitude. 2 By a narrow margin; closely.

WordNet
narrowly

adv. in a narrow manner; not allowing for exceptions; "he interprets the law narrowly" [ant: broadly]

Usage examples of "narrowly".

Though the secrecy and fidelity of Anne Ascue saved the queen from this peril, that princess soon after fell into a new danger, from which she narrowly escaped.

I was moving rapidly in the same direction, and narrowly avoided a collision, as Ralston Bogues stepped through the door, just in time to catch his hysterical wife.

Of these, all except William Butten, who died upon the voyage, reached Cape Cod in safety, though some of them had become seriously ill from the hardships encountered, and Howland had narrowly escaped drowning.

William Butten, who died upon the voyage, reached Cape Cod in safety, though some of them had become seriously ill from the hardships encountered, and Howland had narrowly escaped drowning.

Then she leaped over the fire, narrowly missing igniting her skirts, to face Dob with the dagger.

I let her go on till her rage was somewhat exhausted, and then, having thrown her divining apparatus into the fire, I looked at her in pity and anger, and said that we must part the next day, as she had narrowly escaped killing me.

Wisewoman Hulde, raised her right hand out of a constant circling movement and inspected narrowly the small pads which covered each fingertip.

Her low-cut green gown set off the red of her hair and brought out the greenness of her narrowly lanceolate eyes.

Orientalists, like Postel, Scaliger, Golius, Pockoke, and Erpenius, produced Orientalist studies that were too narrowly grammatical, lexicographical, geographical, or the like.

Assistant Servant of Security whom he had ordered Loob to have promoted, but he had heard that the fellow lived very narrowly, without luxury even in private.

The horseman behind narrowly managed to avoid a collision, and that only by swerving his cantering steed to the side, which made the rider next to Ortho sheer off, and the man behind him rein in with an oath, while the man to the side of the man to the side had to pull over, but not quite as much.

Maxwell, whose skill called forth the praises of the poet, had the honour of being named by Burke in the House of Commons: he shared in the French revolution, and narrowly escaped the guillotine, like many other true friends of liberty.

Wood and more wood-was Gideon veered the team and narrowly avoided a collision with another steam pumper racing in the opposite direction.

He then fired at the Pykrete, which was so strong that the bullet ricocheted, narrowly missing Portal.

The fyrd sided narrowly with Aeled, and the tanist yielded without even a token fight.