How to use in-sentence of “close to”:
+ For radio waves, a ground wave is a surface wave that propagates close to the surface of the Earth.
+ The Meole Brace Park and Ride bus service is close to the stadium.
+ This makes the Australian “day” sound close to the “die” of most British or American people.
+ The home was built close to the slaughterhouses, holding pens and tanneries just east of the freshwater Collect Pond.
+ On the way from Wareham to Shaftesbury, a further miracle had also taken place; two crippled men were brought close to the bier and those carrying it lowered the body to their level, and the cripples regained full health at once.
+ Of course, if something else started out very close to where you were, but was not traveling toward you, it would be very far away from you now because of the expansion.
+ Anywhere from 25,000 to 40,000 Soviet civilians died in Stalingrad and its suburbs during a single week of aerial bombing by “Luftflotte” 4 as the German 4th Panzer and 6th Armies got close to the city; the total number of civilians killed in the regions outside the city is unknown.
+ Many trains and buses meet in Springfield, because it is close to big cities like New York City, Boston, Montreal, and Albany.
Example sentences of “close to”:
+ Only his sister and very few other persons close to the family knew this.
+ It is close to the Andaman and Nicobar Islands of India across the Andaman Sea.
+ The country is close to a narrow part of the Red Sea so it is considered an important area from a military viewpoint.
+ At the anterior end, the tube opens into a small cavity close to the brain, and then to the outside through a pore at the anterior tip of the animal.
+ The two empires came close to war.
+ It is extremely close to its star, about 2 million miles away from it.
+ Some people say this was done by forces which are close to the Sudanese government.
+ The asteroid, the first extrasolar asteroid detected, is 26% water by mass, close to the water content of Ceres.
+ It came close to Bermuda, but did not land there.
+ Only his sister and very few other persons close to the family knew this.
+ It is close to the Andaman and Nicobar Islands of India across the Andaman Sea.
+ The country is close to a narrow part of the Red Sea so it is considered an important area from a military viewpoint.
+ It is close to the shape of an acute accent.
+ He died at his home in Manchester, New Hampshire on December 6, 2014, according to family and friends close to him.
+ It is close to the German border, in what was then Austria-Hungary.
+ It often occurs in rural areas close to swamps, rivers, or lakes.
+ An alveolar consonant is a consonant with the tongue close to the :en:Alveolar_ridgealveolar ridge, which is the part just behind our teeth.
+ It is thought of as being part of God’s way to bring people close to him.
+ When the comet came close to the Earth in 1986, it was visited by several space-probes.
More in-sentence examples of “close to”:
+ Many delegates feared that Elba was too close to Europe to keep such a dangerous force.
+ Other people who were close to getting the award included John Hogan John Hogan of Clear Channel, Peter Smyth of Greater Media, David Field of Entercom, Lew Dickey of Cumulus, and Don Benson of Lincoln Financial.
+ Trojan objects do not orbit exactly at one of either Lagrange points, but do remain close to it, appearing to slowly orbit it.
+ It lies close to other groups of red supergiants known as Stephenson 2, RSGC3 and Alicante 8.
+ Although Wales is very close to the rest of Great Britain, and despite most people speaking English languageEnglish, the country has always had a distinct culture.
+ Then, about two years after the breasts start to grow, Some girls may skip a month, or have two periods close to each other.
+ The territories are to the north, where fewer people live, close to the Arctic Circle and Arctic Ocean.
+ The highest mountain in the province is the “Loma La Tasajera del Chivito” at, is the second highest mountain, in the northeast corner of the province, close to the Santiago Rodríguez province.
+ The disturbance quickly turned into a tropical depression the next day while being very close to the coastline.
+ The center of the earthquake was near Léogâne, very close to Port-au-Prince, the capital and largest city of Haiti.
+ Their bodies were found close to 207th Street and US 169 Highway.
+ He designed close to a thousand motion picture and television main and end title sequences for top directors.
+ Titan’s eccentricity is 0.028, very close to zero.
+ The course of the ratings was therefore close to how good or bad the show arrived at the studio audience.
+ Chico is in the Sacramento Valley close to the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Sierra Nevada mountain range.
+ The Adige starts in the Reschen Pass in the “comune” of Graun im Vinschgau, South Tyrol province, at an altitude of about close to the borders with Austria and Switzerland.
+ It is close to the center of the state.
+ Relativistic jets, relatavistic beaming, relatavistic electrons = radiation and particles moving at speeds which are close to the speed of light.
+ Another famous school close to Harvard in Cambridge, Massachusetts is the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
+ Together, they worked on a new style, “deep focus.” Usually, if something close to the camera is in focus, everything that is far away is out of focus.
+ On lap 50, Mansell was close to Senna and passed him to lead.
+ It is very close to the tonne of the metric system.
+ This is in the fictional county of Wyvern in the southwest of England close to the Welsh border.
+ That year the club cape close to its first League title since 1962.
+ They had to wear special badges to show they were ill, and they could not come close to normal people.
+ The southern border follows the northern border of Missouri.Iowa’s borders are definitiondefined in the Preamble to the The border follows the Des Moines River for the far eastern part of the state and is at close to 40 degrees, 35minutes north for the rest of the state.
+ Many delegates feared that Elba was too close to Europe to keep such a dangerous force.
+ Other people who were close to getting the award included John Hogan John Hogan of Clear Channel, Peter Smyth of Greater Media, David Field of Entercom, Lew Dickey of Cumulus, and Don Benson of Lincoln Financial.
+ Judge Hilton said that the law has a secular purpose, that the law does not make religion more important or less important, and that the law does not make government and religion be too close to each other.
+ The Canyon Fire has burned close to Malibu, California, mostly in Malibu Canyon.
+ The fire came close to the Loy Yang Power Station, and the station’s open-cut coal mine.
+ The station is situated close to Middlesex University’s Enfield campus at.
+ The Extended Basic Roman is close to one-to-one phoneme-grapheme correspondence, paving the way to a pronunciation respelling for English by means of the closely related Roman Phonetic Alphabet for English.
+ It is close to the “Naturpark Nordeifel”, a large forest area in Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands.
+ Water quality in the River Ozama has been severely affected by industrialisation, ships, and the large population that lives around its banks close to the mouth.
+ It lives in wetlands, and in agricultural lands close to humans.
+ In several natural phenomena one may find curves that are close to being logarithmic spirals.
+ Swedish and Norwegian are so close to Danish that most Danes understand them.
+ At particle speeds not close to the speed of light the frequency of the accelerating voltage can be made roughly proportional to the current in the bending magnets.
+ One is close to the pyramid and one near the Nile.
+ It has this name because it is close to the “Estação Central de Belo Horizonte”.
+ Iceland is very geologically active and combined with large amounts of rain and snow caused by the warm waters of the gulf stream current which flow toward it, many interesting and unusual geographic features have developed which make it different from any other island so close to the Arctic Circle.
+ In reply, the Super Kings were reduced to 39/6 at one stage before an unbeaten half-century from skipper Dhoni took them close to the target.
+ The details in Cohen’s story coincide with the statements of Colonel Vladimir Chikov a few years ago, such as the recruitment of people close to the Manhattan Project as spies, the existence to transport stolen information.
+ The eldest son he would remain close to his father all his life who in turn adored his son who was named after him.
+ King dedicated Bachman’s early books “rage to people close to him.
+ Farther north, parts of 2nd Panzer Division were close to the Meuse.
+ The town is close to the Chiltern-Mt Pilot National Park.
+ The cities of Pia and Cabestany are now part of Perpignan, while Bompas, Saleilles, Canohès, Toulouges, Le Soler, Baho, Saint-Estève and Rivesaltes are all close to the city limits.
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+ If a star is very close to us it will appear much brighter.
+ When the predator gets close to the prey, and they are sure to be found, some prey switch methods, and flee or fight back.