Narrowly
Narrowly adverb - By a very small margin.
Usage example: they narrowly escaped with their lives
Nearby Words: narrow, narrowness
Well
Both words in one sentence
- Things did not go well for him, and he narrowly escaped being burned alive by Cyrus the Great.
- And Peppy nearly sacrifices himself so Fox and the others can get to the aparoid queen, and Wolf, Leon, and Panther narrowly avoid death as well.
Source: Knight Of Cerebus / Video Games - According to a Reader's Digest article many years ago about a freak shooting accident: A boatman well over a mile offshore fired a .303 at some floating object, missing narrowly.
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