1 His large ugly face came nearer, with the eyes a little narrowed.
2 He sat as still as he could on the narrow bench, with his hands crossed on his knee.
3 It was on a dark evening, in a narrow side-street near one of the big railway stations.
4 He was in a narrow street, with a few dark little shops, interspersed among dwelling-houses.
5 Hurriedly, lest he should have time to become frightened, he descended the steps and crossed the narrow street.
6 The pain of sitting on the narrow bench was such that often he got up and walked about, unreproved by the telescreen.
7 The barrel of the ribs was as narrow as that of a skeleton: the legs had shrunk so that the knees were thicker than the thighs.
8 She shook her head, evidently as a warning that he must keep silent, then parted the bushes and quickly led the way along the narrow track into the wood.
9 Ampleforth, too large to sit in comfort on the narrow bench, fidgeted from side to side, clasping his lank hands first round one knee, then round the other.
10 It was perceived that in thus abbreviating a name one narrowed and subtly altered its meaning, by cutting out most of the associations that would otherwise cling to it.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George OrwellContextHighlight In PART 3: Chapter 7-APPENDIX 11 A narrow scarlet sash, emblem of the Junior Anti-Sex League, was wound several times round the waist of her overalls, just tightly enough to bring out the shapeliness of her hips.
12 He was not any longer in the narrow white corridors in the Ministry of Love, he was in the enormous sunlit passage, a kilometre wide, down which he had seemed to walk in the delirium induced by drugs.
13 Even the humblest Party member is expected to be competent, industrious, and even intelligent within narrow limits, but it is also necessary that he should be a credulous and ignorant fanatic whose prevailing moods are fear, hatred, adulation, and orgiastic triumph.