Definition of "narrows" []

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of narrow. (verb)
• A narrow part of a navigable waterway. (noun)

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• "Use the "filter" tool on our interactive chart to remove the two recent partisan polls, and the Kirk margin narrows to roughly 1 point (40.5% to 39.6%)."
• "On each side of the narrows is a steep cliff, one of which is so high that its sharp top reaches the sky."
• "The ranges of mountains which nearly surround the valley of the springs, as they follow the course of the river down on each side, become greatly approximated to each other, and confining that stream to very small borders and compressed breadth, constitutes what is here termed the narrows; and again expanding or receding from each other, form Salt river valley."