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How to use the word close in a Sentence? Page #4

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A lot of these air pollutions tend to cluster in economically disadvantaged neighborhoods, so it’s one of the big reasons we want to always keep a close eye on this, as it disproportionately impacts certain populations more than others.

– Panagis Galiatsatos

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I’m there and I’m watching the wedding and I see them go in for the kiss and their faces stop like this far, and i’m like, ‘I wonder how they’re going to play that in the movie, they’ll probably just cut right there,’ but [in] the movie you could see their faces come close and then you can see their faces morph a little bit into a fake kiss.

– Andrew Schulz

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s a seismogenic area. It’s a very large fault zone, but this is a larger earthquake than they’ve experienced any time in recent memory, the magnitude of shaking that is felt on the surface is both a function of the amount of energy released, the size of the earthquake, but also how far that energy is released below the surface. So if it is very close to the surface, if it is a shallow earthquake, then it can be very dangerous.

– Karl Lang

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It was very close, and we believe less than 100 feet.

– Jennifer Homendy

Found on CNN
1 year ago

So given the fact that we were close to breaking records last night, we had to go out in those conditions every 15 to 20 minutes or so.

– Alexis George

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The Swan River estuary is good bull shark habitat and this means people can come into close contact with them, unfortunately some encounters end badly and in this case with tragic results.

– Andrew Chin

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I was more worried how I was there in the first place, but I guess a lot of amateurs find themselves out of position, it was a great shot. Just tried to put it into the bank and hope for the best, like most amateurs do. It was nice to see it roll up nice and close.

– Gareth Bale

Found on CNN
1 year ago

First it was 400,000 unread emails and 120,000 people in need of unemployment checks, then it was chaos and preventable criminal acts in our juvenile justice detention centers, and now Andy's sending checks to people who weren't even close to the disaster zone in Western Kentucky.

– Ryan Quarles

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I’ve been pretty persistent on this, let’s just say, any conversation I’ve ever had with the White House, anyone close to the White House, I’ve brought up the subject of Willow.

– Lisa Murkowski

Found on CNN
1 year ago

They haven’t shared with us any cumulative ballpark, i believe it’s imperative we know the ballpark at least, and eventually the specific number, because it will be less of a gap to close on the necessary reductions.

– Tom Buschatzke

Found on CNN
1 year ago

By giving vague, nonspecific information and making comments like ‘everyone’s potentially at risk’ or ‘there’s possible spread through sharing a bed, clothing or close dancing’ … that kind of dilutes the message, and people who engage in risk behavior that does put them at risk get confused, and they say ‘well, maybe this isn’t really a route of spread,’.

– Jeffrey Klausner

Found on CNN
1 year ago

These units can get out of control really quickly. If you’re not paying close attention on the supervisory part then you’ve got a problem.

– Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If you put a unit like this out on the street in this environment and you look at a number where they’re pulling in 170 or 180 people into custody every month after the unit gets started, you’ve got to take a closer look at what they’re doing – what those charges are, what the probable cause is, what the reason for the stops is, these units can get out of control really quickly. If you’re not paying close attention on the supervisory part then you’ve got a problem.

– Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There are Republican governors that did not close their states, florida was closed for a long period of time.

– Donald Trump

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I had governors that decided not to close a thing and that was up to them.

– Alex Wong/Getty Images Trump

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The most hurtful part is how close it was to home, we would have never thought that this was going to happen here. And I’m sure people say that everywhere. But it’s shocking … And of course, I’m going to think about my mom and think about my family, my aunts, my uncles. It could have been them.

– Lian Zhang

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If you are very close to the material or touching it, the radiation risk increases immensely and could cause serious damage to your health, including causing radiation burns to the skin.

– Andrew Robertson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I felt like the absolute worst kind of officer, someone who didn’t help – couldn’t help – their friend, sometimes when I close my eyes I can still see his face, white as a sheet.

– Caroline Edwards

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Most Western air-to-ground munitions for close air support are optimized for being delivered from medium altitude, with a targeting pod, and that’s not really viable near the frontlines because of the Russian ground-based air-defense threat.

– Justin Bronk

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Overdose prevention sites can be part of a comprehensive strategy that can save lives and address open-air drug use in our communities, fentanyl is challenging us like never before, and in addition to opening up these sites, we have to work with law enforcement to close the open-air drug markets and ensure that our neighborhoods feel improvements as we bring these resources to bear.

– London Breed

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Scout quickly ruled out 2023 BU as an impactor, but despite the very few observations, it was nonetheless able to predict that the asteroid would make an extraordinarily close approach with Earth, in fact, this is one of the closest approaches by a known near-Earth object ever recorded.

– Davide Farnocchia

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We have to close our sky, to defend our sky, that’s priority number one. After that, we need to get more armed vehicles, tanks, artillery systems, UAVs, etc. etc. We have people, but we need weaponry.

– Oleksii Reznikov

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The idea that Tesla will guide you to anything close to reality is unlikely because Elon Musk has a pathological problem with telling the truth.

– Gordon Johnson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I would rank this win as No. 2 [this year], but very close to the performance of two nights ago, i could not be happier with my tennis. I’ve been playing very solid from the back of the court, I love playing in these conditions … this court, I’ve said it before, it’s the most special court for me.

– Novak Djokovic

Found on CNN
1 year ago

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