How to use "close" in a sentence

Mosquitoes mean there must be water quite close - probably at the Big Drop Rappel.

I'm crying as I close the camcorder for the last time

For someone close to death I have done well

We tried to move onto this strange metal object to get close to him.

When we get close to a country we know, we'll try to escape."

We were very close to Papua

We're close to Europe, and we can take the small boat to get to land

I looked out of the window, and there was a 25-foot giant squid! It moved close to the Nautilus and it hit the window with its long tentacles

I am loathe to close

'It's true we are very close,' Mr Slinkton said very seriously

It happened in Castle Alley, close behind Hutchinson's home

'You have two very pretty children, Madame,' a voice said from close beside her.

A few evenings later, while he was giving Cosette a reading lesson in his room, Valjean heard the front door of the house open and close

Valjean quietly lay down on the mattress on his floor, but he could not close his eyes all night

By keeping close to the walls in the shadows, he could clearly see what was happening in the light

Cosette, feeling her body close to his, took his hand and pressed it against her heart

Sit down on that stone, close beside me.'

Javert shouted to the driver who was waiting for him to bring his carriage close to the river

He understood, and went downstairs with Javert close behind him

Then, taking Cosette's sleeve and pressing it to his lips, he said, 'Come close to me, both of you

"Darling," he says, with a smile, "this good man wants to close

Sometimes he's so close that I think he can touch me, and other times he's far away, but I still know that he's there

And you want to tell yourself to relax, that everything is okay, and to close your eyes and return to your calm and gentle dreams.

And your eyes close, and you feel sleep begin to take you.

But after a few minutes he realises how tired he is, and he thinks that maybe he can close his eyes for a moment and even rest his head against the grille.

I'm going to go close the church, then maybe I can find you that bit of food and some other clothes."

What's more, there was a force field at the city boundary that was impossible to cross: there were alarms there that sensed your wrist chip before you even got close, and then government agents appeared in seconds to arrest you

Sala had seen it before, of course, from a distance - but she'd never been so close to it.

"I love that you're so hopeful." Cham drew her close, and kissed her

It felt like a moment of magic: they'd never been so close.

White seabirds flew close to the surface of the water, fighting against the wind

They were so close to the pod center that she was worried there might be government agents nearby

Only parents and close relations are allowed beyond this point, so Kaz here is going to take you back."

But we're getting close."

She wanted to feel him close

He told me about a little, secret valley close to the sea

The trees grew very close together over our heads and it was very dark

Mrs Danvers came close to me and put her face near to mine.

I am going to close the window.'

'The sea-cocks close the pipes leading to the wash-basins, sir

'Wow! That was close!' says Nathan.

Hundreds of other people stood close behind the players, watching impatiently, waiting for a seat to open

Michael led the way, gently pushing and elbowing through the holiday crowd, and Tina followed quickly in his wake, before the path that he made could close up again.

"You managed," she said, and that was as close as she could come to accusing him of anything.

Elliot ducked a wild roundhouse punch, stepped in close, still holding on to the pistol that the other man wouldn't surrender

He followed close behind her

He was safe, close behind her, knocked off balance by the force of the shock wave, staggering forward, but unhurt.

Stupefied by the unexpected violence, by the loss of her house, and by her close brush with death, she had seemed to be in a trance; now she had snapped out of it

"That was close."

The boys couldn't have gotten very close to such a well-guarded place

Those might not be the precise circumstances, but they're pretty damn close to the truth."

"Maybe he doesn't feel close enough to Michael to try reaching him

She slipped a hand behind his neck, holding his face close

Bruckster hadn't been able to get close to Evans when the dealer left the blackjack pit at the beginning of the break

We might both be killed before we even get close to him."

He motioned for Tina to stay behind him, close to the house

And I guess they were so sure of where we were headed, they didn't think it was necessary to keep a close watch on us

"If we abandon the car with them so close, they'll run us down fast

A short time later, in bed, they held each other close, but neither of them had sex in mind

They were no more than six or eight feet from the lighted shack, close enough to see the guard's face as he scowled at them through the large window.

They can't get close to it, let alone inside."

Because he had the pistol, Elliot went through first, but Tina was close behind him.

Covering the strangers with the menacing, silencer-equipped pistol, Elliot said, "Tina, close the door behind us

With smiles, murmured assurances, and kisses planted on his frail hands, she finally managed to persuade him to tuck both of his arms close to his body.

They might pretend to close us down, but they won't

She held Danny close, and she stared into his dark eyes, and she wasn't able to comfort herself with those words from the Bible

Henri had just proved that Charas seemed to be getting close to some kind of clue in this business with the flies.

'It's possible because the atoms that make up objects are not close together like the bricks of a wall

And the shot was loud? As though it was close by?'

But suddenly I heard someone else moving very close to me

It was, however, still very hot from its flight through the air and he could not get close to it

Then came a violent crash quite close to us, that shook the ground

In the road lay a pile of three burnt bodies close together, killed by the Heat-Ray

There was a man with his wife and two boys and some pieces of furniture in a cart, and close behind him came another one with five or six well-dressed people and some boxes and cases

When the smoke had begun to settle, it stayed quite close to the ground so that even fifteen metres up in the air, on the roots and upper floors of houses and in high trees, there was a chance of escaping its poison

He looked past it at the Martians again and saw the three of them now close together, and standing so far out to sea that their legs were almost completely under water.

Probably because it did not fire, it managed to get quite close

The guns of the Thunder Child were heard going off one after another, and one shot hit the water close by the steamboat.

But the other warships were now quite close and moving in towards the shore.

Instead of staying close and trying to move me away from the pit, the curate had gone back into the hall

For a long time I lay close to the opening until, encouraged by the silence, I looked out.

And as I looked at it, and realized that the shadows had been rolled back, and that people might still live in its streets, and that this dear city of mine might be once more alive and powerful again, I felt such emotion that I was very close to tears.

Seven months ago, when these planets were close together, faint, dark marks appeared on photographs which suggested that a cylinder had been fired from one to the other.

I sat on the big suitcase to close it

I sat on the big suitcase again to close it

A man close to me said, 'It's my master, Sir Percival Glyde.'

I noticed that a man close to us was listening with interest to our conversation

In 1937, as Amelia was close to her 40th birthday, she was ready for a big journey