narrowly avoid
narrowly escape
a narrowly constructed causeway
She narrowly won the first race.
the party was narrowly defeated in the elections.
He narrowly escaped drowning.
He narrowly escaped death.
He narrowly escaped being drowned.
narrowly missed crashing into the tree.
The boy narrowly escaped being drowned.
The study was criticized for being too narrowly focused.
He narrowly missed being run over by a car.
he had narrowly escaped the clutches of the Nazis.
the ruling party won 24 seats, narrowly topping the poll.
Petiole narrowly winged basally or proximally, with a subapical abscission zone;
One car narrowly missed hitting the other one.
He braked hard and narrowly avoided a parked van.
He glared furiously at me when I contradicted him. Topeer is to look narrowly, searchingly, and seemingly with difficulty:
bracteole narrowly linear, 2.5--4 mm.Sepals purplish blue, abaxially glabrous or nearly so;
Leaf blade narrowly elliptic-lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, margin spiniform dentate; bracts of cupule subulate, ligulate, or linear, often reflexed.
Trustbusters like to define markets narrowly.
Some of the polls had Joe Biden leading very narrowly.
This is why the problem must be defined differently and more narrowly.
The Supreme Court always likes to rule as narrowly as possible.
A boulder rolled down the slope and narrowly missed the car.
481. I threw a row of arrows, which narrowly passed the narrow-minded man's eyebrows.
She won narrowly by just over 1500 votes.
He narrowly beat rightwing president Jair Bolsonaro.
I narrowly avoided falling on my face.
Republicans argue for a more narrowly focused economic stimulus package.
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