Definition of Narrowly

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Narrowly

With little breadth; in a narrow manner.

Without much extent; contractedly.

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

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.

Sparingly; parsimoniously.

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Narrowly Quotations

The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

And I guess what I would say is that we can't think narrowly about movements for black liberation and we can't necessarily see this class division as simply a product or a certain strategy that black movements have developed for liberation.
Angela Davis

The human rights community has focused very narrowly on political and civil rights for many decades, and with reason, but now we have to ask how can we broaden the view.
Paul Farmer

The AEC scientists were so narrowly focused on arming the United States for nuclear war that they failed to perceive facts - even widely known ones - that were outside their limited field of vision.
Barry Commoner

Moreover, environmental health at the local level has become narrowly focused, very much defined around regulations and the attendant regulatory debates.
Samuel Wilson

Viewed narrowly, all life is universal hunger and an expression of energy associated with it.
Mary Ritter Beard

Narrowly Translations

narrowly in German is eingeengt
narrowly in Swedish is smalt

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