Sentence examples for narrowly avoided missing from inspiring English sources

We arrived the day before the race - having narrowly avoided missing our connection from Waterloo when the train flouted rolling-stock convention and left early, not late.

The Northern Irishman was first out on Saturday alongside marker and club member Jeff Knox after he narrowly avoided missing the cut on Friday.

Laura's party takes a wrong direction, and narrowly avoids missing the last house on the edge of town, which would have meant them heading out onto the open prairie to a certain death – oh, shiver!

I missed him by inches and narrowly avoided killing him.

But for a company that narrowly avoided defaulting on $183 million in debt just days ago, the prospect of missing $4.9 billion -- more than half its revenue last year -- makes bankruptcy seemingly inevitable.

Greg Norman, who missed the cut in his own event last week, narrowly avoided the same fate yesterday.

Another, Andrew Cashner, missed time with a strained muscle last season and narrowly avoided disaster in December when a friend sliced his right thumb with a knife in a hunting accident.

Lerew landed in the jungle and narrowly avoided capture before making his way to a Coastwatcher post and returning to Port Moresby in a schooner, nine days after having been posted missing; his crew members had died.

Each eventuality was narrowly avoided.

(Moran narrowly avoided being killed.

Last month, Mr. Cherubin narrowly avoided eviction.