Sentence examples for a narrow eye from inspiring English sources

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The phrase "a narrow eye" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone who is scrutinizing or observing something closely, often with suspicion or judgment.
Example: "She looked at him with a narrow eye, questioning his intentions."
Alternatives: "a skeptical gaze" or "a scrutinizing look".

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They included 20 women wearing the niqab – the Salafist or Saudi full-length veil with only a narrow eye opening.

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A ladder on the roof leads down to a concrete stand for machine guns; a narrow, eye-level slit looks out onto the sea.

She crossed to her side of the bed and took a printed silk wrap from the closet and put it on, all the while studying Glass out of a narrowed eye.

Secondly, we tested the prediction that male EPTs with a wider eye-stripe, which signals male attractiveness [ 42, 43], desert the nest more often than males with a narrower eye-stripe, thus imposing the costs of parental care on their mate.

For all the political forces that Democrats argue are turning in their favor, the task of winning back the House would require the party to thread a very narrow eye of a needle.

But, then, in memory's narrow eye comes a fixifying certainty, an absolute recognition — a sighting.

Once upon a time Lovett rested his narrow eye on the wide world of Texan society, landscape and fauna, and coaxed out of those things surreal lament.

It is mostly buffy-yellow, with a narrow dark eye line, dark brown upperparts, and dark brown banding on the tail.

The coins depict a hard-faced Margrethe with a masculine jawline, narrow eyes, and skin which seems to be tightly stretched over a singularly androgynous face.

He was short and stocky, with a bristly mustache and narrow eyes, and he often wore a billed cap of a wild, vivid paisley pattern that suggested the scrambled contortions of the thoughts inside.

A narrow Hawk-Eye call saved the first of those, while a second went begging when Pironkova returned long before deuce came up when the Bulgarian netted wastefully.

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