1) Becomes less wide 2) Becomes thinner 3) Comes to a point 4) Contracts 5) Gets thinner 6) Gets thinner toward the end 7) Goes from three lanes to two 8) Good bridge locale 9) Hazardous boating area 10) Loses width 11) New York Bay passage 12) New York City harbor entrance 13) New York harbor area 1) Gulf 2) Inlet 
Narrows is a term for restricted land or water passages. Most commonly it refers to a strait, though it can also refer to a water gap. A narrows may form where a stream passes through a tilted bed of hard rock lying between two softer beds: `[i]f the hard beds are vertical, so that their outcrop does not shift as erosion proceeds, a narrows is de....
• (pl. ) of Narrow • (pl. ) of Narrow
narrow (def. 19).