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# narrowly

«narrowly» in Mova's school dictionary: **only just, by a small margin: he narrowly missed the bus** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adverb

### meaning for a pupil

1) Narrowly means only just, by a small margin: he narrowly missed the bus. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/narrowly/#m1)

2) Narrowly can mean with close attention: he watched narrowly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/narrowly/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in stories, a near miss or a narrow escape; 'narrowly' shows close watching

### examples

- She narrowly escaped the crocodile. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/narrowly/#x1)
- We narrowly missed the train. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/narrowly/#x2)
- The monkey watched the fishermen narrowly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/narrowly/#x3)

### note

«won narrowly» means won by a small amount, so the difference is small; the word gives no exact number.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «narrowly» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/narrowly/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.