Sentence examples for did narrowly from inspiring English sources

I didn't go out myself, but friends who did narrowly missed being hit on the head with gas cannisters or run over by reconnaissance vehicles.

The House did narrowly pass legislation to cancel automatic, across-the-board military cuts set to begin next month, and shift them to domestic programs.

I wouldn't have thought it possible to go too fast while rowing, but in the Green Machine, aided by an enthusiastic volunteer, we did, narrowly avoiding a collision.

They did, narrowly edging out the New Jersey Devils, and were rewarded with the first overall pick: Mario Lemieux, who went on to save (and eventually own) the franchise.

Still, the incumbent party's candidate, Al Gore, lost the election though he did narrowly win the popular vote.

The state did narrowly support Trump in 2016 ― the first time Michigan has gone Republican in a presidential contest since 1988 ― but Stabenow is a strong candidate running for a fourth term.

The prime minister represents both of the strands that former Labour MP David Marquand identified in the Tory tribe: the Whig imperialists who believe in muscular intervention in good international causes; and the Tory nationalists who want nothing if it does not serve narrowly defined British interests.

What they did was narrowly stereotyped and routine.

Until a year ago, all federal appeals courts to have interpreted this exclusion did so narrowly.

And yet only at the 11th hour did last week narrowly avoid being the first in more than 11 years without a $1 billion transaction.

The unpopular war, Aron says, ended the Russian people's romance with Yeltsin; only by negotiating a hasty withdrawal did he narrowly avert an electoral defeat.