Sentence examples for narrowing like from inspiring English sources

I was propelled, of course, by the traditional forces that had sent many generations along this road — by the small tight valley closing in around one, stifling the breath with its mossy mouth, the cottage walls narrowing like the arms of an iron maiden, the local girls, whispering, "Marry, and settle down".

But this gap is narrowing like it is in other markets.

The fairway on the second hole narrows like an hourglass roughly 270 yards from the tee.

This gap has historically widened and narrowed like a tide.

Hexagonal-shaped NSs are formed which extends to a length of few microns and then narrows like sharpening the pencil and ultimately leads to an elongated core which appears like an exposed core of pencil.

Young asci range in shape from spherical to broadly ellipsoid to ovoid (egg-shaped) or pyriform (pear-shaped); sometimes the base of the ascus is narrowed like a stipe,and measures up to 15 by 7 µm.

But, in many schools, particularly in big city schools that are low performing, subjects that make for an expanded curriculum rather than narrowed, like the arts and physical education, have been squeezed from the school day.

This kind of tracking could arguably be the first move in preventive, and subsequently pre-emptive anti-abortion enforcement, particularly in states where the legal status of abortion has been significantly narrowed, like Kansas and Missouri.

Elizabeth's tears quickly dried to rage as her eyes swiveled from ineffective, observing me and narrowed like lasers on the Corleone princeling who'd snatched her plastic keys.

The opening of your throat will need to be narrowed like this in order to produce the muffled voice required for this effect.

At which point Newman, his eyes narrowing but twinkling like icicles, laughs.