Sentence examples for the narrows of from inspiring English sources

According to some authorities, North America begins not at the Isthmus of Panama but at the narrows of Tehuantepec, with the intervening region called Central America.

The Persians entered the narrows of Salamis, where Themistocles had insisted the Greeks should be stationed, and they were comprehensively defeated under the appalled eyes of Xerxes himself.

Mr. Scheffer plants oyster seed, or tiny oysters, in the narrows of Katama Bay, between Edgartown harbor and the island of Chappaquiddick.

Now to get from there to the Linnhe Loch, the straight course was through the narrows of the Sound of Mull.

It was only six hundred thousand years ago that the common ancestors of every human who is not African waded across the narrows of the Red Sea to Arabia, and from there to every point on the planet.

Less than 4 miles (6 km) to the west, across the plain of the Scamander (Küçük Menderes) River, is the Aegean Sea, and toward the north are the narrows of the Dardanelles.

But it is the narrowest of edges.

The narrowing of the eyes!

Prediction: Rylance, by the narrowest of heads.

It has been the narrowest of narrow escapes.

But their power is held by the narrowest of margins.