Sentence examples for narrow tract from inspiring English sources

A good road leads to the southern ridge of the Hotha valley, which is crossed by a narrow tract.

It was dark by the time the prop plane whistled and shuddered across the narrow tract of Mediterranean that separates Sicily from the northern coast of Africa -- an hour's flight -- and landed at the Tunis airport.

With Mr. Thomas, who was also their architect, they came up with the idea of a Z-shaped house that winds through the trees and fits the narrow tract well.

The next phase of the war, he said on January 14th, would oblige the army to reoccupy the so-called "Philadelphi Route", a narrow tract of land on the Gaza side of the strip's border with Egypt.

The coastal plain comprises a narrow tract in the south, sloping from Salpausselkä to the Gulf of Finland; the plains in the southwestern part of the country; and the broad western coastal lowlands of the region of Pohjanmaa (Ostrobothnia) facing the Gulf of Bothnia.

Flood plain (cultivated lands) is are mainly restricted to the narrow tract of the River Nile Valley.

The higher-pitched voices tend to occur among the people with short cords and narrow tracts.

The Ladakh urial Ovis vignei vignei is an endemic and endangered wild sheep inhabiting the arid Trans-Himalayan region of Ladakh, where its population is restricted to narrow tracts along two river valleys.

From external appearance all birds seem to be more or less evenly covered by feathers; in actual fact, however, most birds have their feathers growing from relatively narrow tracts (pterylae) in the skin.

However, the trees are rare, and since tall trees require more water than the savanna environment could generally provide, they probably existed in narrow tracts or "gallery forests" along rivers and gulleys where water could accumulate.

In the late afternoon of Aug. 7, a truck with blue-painted side panels and a tarpaulin shielding its cargo rumbled into Ixtupil — past the rickety wood-and-adobe homes, narrow tracts of corn and beans, grazing cows and goats, and curious villagers gathered along the cracked roads — and came to a stop outside the village school.