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Example sentences for: narrows

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Québec is said to be derived from an Algonquin word meaning “where the river narrows,” and this becomes most apparent when you see the city’s great outcrop of rock, jutting out over the St. Lawrence.
Gradually the island narrows, and past Rolleville, Great Exuma gives way to the Exuma Cays, a ribbon of small islands of which only four are inhabited.
The area where English Bay narrows into False Creek epitomizes Vancouver’s taste for the good life.
Within ten years, both tenant farmers (habitants) and fur traders (coureurs de bois, literally wood-runners) were colonizing Québec — New France — at the point where the river narrows.
But when Odysseus appears alone as a needy traveler before them, the queen narrows her eyes: And just where did you get those clothes you have on?