Usage examples of "estrecho" in Spanish with translation to English

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Caminaron por un sendero estrecho. They walked along a narrow path.
Nosotros caminamos a través de un camino estrecho. We walked along a narrow path.
El camino es muy estrecho para los autos. The road is too narrow for cars.
Este camino es muy estrecho para que pasen los camiones. This road is too narrow for trucks to pass.
Ocurre con la gente de mente pequeña lo mismo que con las botellas de cuello estrecho. Cuanto menos contiene, más ruido hacen al vaciarlas. It is with narrow-souled people as with narrow necked bottles: the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring it out.
Entre por la puerta estrecha. Enter by the narrow gate.
El joven estiró su mano, y yo la estreché. The young man put out his hand and I shook it.
La calle es muy estrecha. The street is very narrow.
Un hombre anciano se acercó y estrechó la mano de Lincoln. An old man came up and shook Lincoln's hand.
¡Qué estrechas son estas escaleras! What narrow stairs!
¿Por qué los físicos son convergentes? Porque son monótonos y estrechos. Why do physicists converge? Because they're monotonous and narrow.
Este recibidor se va estrechando a medida que me adentro cada vez más en él. This hallway keeps narrowing as I go farther and farther in.
Sólo un intelecto masculino nublado por el impulso sexual podría llamar al sexo atrofiado, de hombros estrechos, caderas anchas, y cortas piernas, el sexo débil. Only a male intellect clouded by the sexual drive could call the stunted, narrow-shouldered, broad-hipped and short-legged sex the fair sex.
Este traje me queda estrecho. This suit is tight on me.
EE.UU. cree que le tocó el lado estrecho del embudo. The U.S. thinks it is getting the short end of the stick.
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