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How to use the word narrows in a Sentence?

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A definite purpose, like blinders on a horse, inevitably narrows its possessor's point of view.

Robert Frost

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1 year ago

This visual focus on the screen narrows cognition. In other words, people are more focused when interacting on video, which hurts the broad, expansive idea generation process.

Melanie Brucks

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Its a really tough environment for lawmaking, first, the parties are surely more ideologically polarized from each other than they were decades ago. Second, theres more sheer partisanship in town than before -- tit for tat, your team is for it, so my team is against it. Third, close electoral competition narrows the window for dealmaking -- each election offers each party a chance to hold or gain control. ... [ And, ] because the president is so unpopular nationally and with independents, theres limited pressure on Democrats to resolve problems.

Sarah Binder

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

At the end of the day, you got 10 people each night in a two-hour block. Until the race sort of narrows down, you're not really going to have, I think, a lot of substantive back-and-forth between the candidates. Just because there's not enough time to do it.

Jeff Weaver

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Just at the time when stress increases for them, their world narrows, we need to open things out.

Yoshiaki Takahashi

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

An awful lot of Republicans are very concerned that Donald Trump is not the right candidate to go head-to-head with Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders, and as the field narrows, we're seeing more and more people coming to us.

Ted Cruz

Found on CNN
8 years ago

A purchase of Treasuries and a sale of Bunds allows for not only a potential capital gain if the spread narrows, but a yield pickup while the Rip Van Winkle investor potentially waits for a probable outcome.

Bill Gross

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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