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How to use the word Closer in a Sentence?

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You will never make 20 in a row if you are not okay to miss 200 hundred. Success often requires learning from setbacks, and understanding that each miss brings you closer to the perfect score.

Christen Kuikoua

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1 month ago

Every stumble is a step closer to mastery; perseverance paints the path.

Aloo Denish Obiero

added by Aloo-Denish
3 months ago

Reading a book is akin to embarking on a journey; every page turned is a step closer to enlightenment.

Aloo Denish Obiero

added by Aloo-Denish
3 months ago

Near Indeed Closer Between Just One Atmosphere H.O.P.E Hold On Pains Ends

Leticia Bufoni

added by abolarinmichael06
8 months ago

The closer to Hell you get, the more positive you need to be.

Ryan Pack

added by littleking
9 months ago

The Grocery Store Method: I want you to think of it like this: Everytime you adopt a child you shorten the checkout line and your one step closer to world peace, and everytime you have a biological child you lengthen the checkout line and your one step farther from world peace.

Ryan Pack

added by littleking
9 months ago

Right now, the volcano is ejecting steam, ashes, gases, and closer to the crater there’s been a high level of seismicity.

Luis Fernando Velasco

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think that United Kingdom should be working closer with Ireland in this endeavor.

The Irish identity Biden

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s running a marathon and just doing every day whatever you can do, in order to move our country a little bit closer to the victory, it’s definitely a very difficult, very demanding experience.

Oksana Markarova

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The Balabac site allows for intelligence collection and staging of peacetime air and naval activities in the area, which can put Mischief Reef under closer scrutiny.

Collin Koh

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Typically, they will go about their day and not want to bother anyone or be bothered by anyone. But like any wildlife, if they start associating people with food, they’re going to risk coming closer.

Anna Meyer

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think we’ll come right up to the precipice, most people in this city feel it’s inconceivable we could default on our debt. I agree it’s unlikely but it’ll be much closer than people thought.

Greg Valliere

Found on CNN
1 year ago

These factors create a less hospitable borrowing environment, which would serve to bring inflation closer to a healthy level, more expensive, stricter lending helps to usher in the long-term health of the economy, but the downside is that borrowing for large purchases, including a home purchase, may be relatively more challenging in the short term.

Hannah Jones

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I wouldn’t call it a true full alliance in the real meaning of that word, but we are seeing them moving closer together, and that’s troublesome, and then … Iran is the third. So those three countries together are going to be problematic for many years to come I think, especially Russia and China because of their capability.

Mark Milley

Found on CNN
1 year ago

They show that climate change is n’t just happening somewhere else, it’s happening everywhere, all of a sudden, it will come knocking a lot closer to your own door.

Dmitry Kokh Mittermeier

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We’ve never been closer to falling apart. Our national security is at risk, our economy is crumbling, our foreign relations are at their lowest point ever, we don’t know what to say to our children about their future in this country. We have been taken hostage by a bunch of extremists with no brakes and no boundaries.

Yair Lapid

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It definitely brings us closer right now, what’s unclear for us is how much of these banking stresses are leading to a widespread credit crunch. And then that credit crunch, just as you said, would then slow down the economy.

Neel Kashkari

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think we actually got closer since that point, significantly closer, because things just became more real. And we’re there for each other.

Hollie Savitt

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The reason for the increase is that mortgage rates were somewhat lower in January and February and consumers wanted to take advantage of a rate that was around 6.3%, rather than closer to 7%.

Lawrence Yun

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s not like a fire where they can see the fire building and getting closer. This is instantaneous. It just happens and It’s too late for you to react to it.

Grant Malinowski

Found on CNN
1 year ago

When I lost my son, I was not there, the last few breaths, the last few words I wasn’t there. I had to do something… to bring me a little closer to him…He took his last everything on that ride.

Nekia Dodd

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This bill will bring us one step closer to making equal access to the ballot box a reality for every qualified New Mexican. Each component of the act represents commonsense voting protections ensuring that eligible New Mexicans have their constitutional right to vote.

Katy Duhigg

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We have to get a candidate who is going to be a winning presidential candidate, that’s not excluding President Trump – right now, he’s closer to getting that majority in the party than anyone else – but it didn’t work last time and we’re concerned about that.

Kim Schmett

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The large increase to 1.7 million [in January] brings them closer to the pre-pandemic average of 1.9 million and suggests that the period of unprecedented job security for American workers is coming to a close.

Julia Pollak

Found on CNN
1 year ago

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