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Example Sentences
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Cameras may help solve serious crimes, but their use should be narrowly controlled.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
The nail-biting finale saw the two pairs jumping on an extraction plane from a beach in north Wales, narrowly escaping the hunters.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
Drummond narrowly finished ahead of Mazzei in the first round in June, with both taking around a quarter of the vote.
From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026
That’s the story of last night’s highest-profile race, in which David Crowley, the Milwaukee County executive, narrowly beat Francesca Hong, a democratic socialist, to become the party’s nominee for Wisconsin governor.
From Slate ● Aug. 12, 2026
The idiom brings to mind the menacing gape of a predator, reinforcing our gratitude for being alive: to come into existence we narrowly escaped a mortal threat, namely the high odds against it.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
