Sentence examples for narrows off from inspiring English sources

In his mind's eye, British troops come surging by the tens of thousands off the war boats massed in the Narrows off Bay Ridge, just as they did on the humid, breezy morning of Aug. 27, 1776.

I have sometimes thought, in fact, that from the top of the Empire State Building the harbor is like the shield of Achilles, displaying the ocean-bound strait called the Narrows, off Staten Island, where, in 1776, the British sailed in with forty thousand troops, a forest of masts deckling the edge of Staten Island.

Correspondingly, the region of high surface temperature is wide off the American east coasts but narrow off the African coast, where the Canary Current and the Benguela Current carry cold water toward the Equator.

In stocks, Adobe Systems raised its earnings and sales guidance due to better order for its new version of its Acrobat software, while BarnesandNoble.com said that its quarterly loss narrowed off of improved margins and lower costs.

We blaze through, using our full suspension to pump the terrain for speed, dropping fast into a narrow, off-camber section and on to another wooden bridge.

Arita et al 27 reported the coexistence of various morphological changes including enlargement or dilation and also atrophy, narrowing, cut-off, distortion, shortening and dropout in patients with MGD.

As I walked deeper into the neighborhood, the alley narrowed and branched off in various directions.

In the past week Clinton's lead has narrowed, largely off the back of the FBI's announcement that it was reopening an investigation into her email server.

Yet they are also choking off or narrowing others.

The continental shelf is relatively narrow off Southeast Alaska, broadens around Kodiak Island, and then narrows toward the Aleutians.

Pity the poor cubicle: modern-day workers seem to prefer any other place to these narrow, partitioned-off desks.