Example sentences for: narrows

How can you use “narrows” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • 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 Times front has a truly spectacular color shot of runners in the NYC marathon going over the Verrazano-Narrows bridge in the rain.

  • 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.

  • The city is built around the broad English Bay, which funnels through First and Second Narrows into the Burrard Inlet, the waterway that George Vancouver explored in a scouting boat in 1791.

  • For the best view of the harbor go up to Signal Hill, looking over the narrows and out to the Atlantic Ocean.


How many words do you know? Try our free vocabulary size test!


Search

Search for example sentences

Loading Loading...
Quantcast