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 →

2) Narrowly can mean with close attention: he watched narrowly. tree →

sense in the lessons

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

examples

• She narrowly escaped the crocodile. tree →
• We narrowly missed the train. tree →
• The monkey watched the fishermen narrowly. tree →

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, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.