Sentence examples for closer from high-quality English sources.

• Jeff Bezos' aerospace company just got one step closer to launching astronauts.

• There might, he thought, be closer and closer p-worlds without limit.

• A closer resemblance to the opposite paradigm would argue against accepting the radio.

• On “ever closer union” you are right (“Never closer union”, October 24th).

• We could hear the gunfire getting closer and closer and we ran up the street.

• Christians believed the closer they could get to a saint, the closer they would be to God.

• Detail preservation in images at full crop is also much improved, coming much closer to that of Google’s Pixel 2 XL.

• For Comte, science is a “connaissance approchée”: it comes closer and closer to truth, without reaching it.

Use closer in a sentence.

• Major facial hair, hulking frames, Frankenstein’s-monster windups, and demonic intensity became the attributes of the closer persona.

• “We’ve been moving progressively to bring that test closer and closer and closer to the patient,” Azar says.

• The first gravitational waves were detected by Ligo as the neutron stars swirled around each other, coming closer and closer.

• As the investigation drew Smith closer to Breach, the attorney forged a closer relationship with the man who controls Vista's purse strings.

• As the value of the underlying stock gets closer and closer to the call option's strike price, dealers will have to buy more and more stock to hedge, pushing up the stock price even more.

• Its online magazine, The Record, described an initiative “to bring Sigma Alpha Epsilon closer to its antebellum roots, closer to the original experience and goals shared by the founding fathers.”

• And the scale of this year’s Amazonian fires also means that the rainforest is being pushed closer and closer to a “biophysical tipping point”, says Jim Randerson at the University of California, Irvine.

• She said: "We were holding our breath as we watch the total tick closer and closer to the final amount and then when I refreshed my laptop and we hit the £100,000 mark this morning, we just leapt from our seats and screamed, then burst into happy tears."

closer sentence examples

• A response which tells people to stop mourning their neighbour, or to stop worrying about the proliferation of explosions closer and closer to their own front door, is just about the least convincing way of trying to alter how people think about the world.

• Analysis of radar data shows that most boats are launched from known smuggling hubs in western Libya, with rescues moving closer and closer to the coast over the past three years as smugglers have switched from large wooden vessels and cargo ships to flimsy dinghies.

• Henri Murison, director of the Northern Powerhouse Partnership, said the Northumberland Line was "a really critical piece of local infrastructure" that would help bring people in south east Northumberland and north Tyneside closer to Newcastle city centre, and closer to well-paid jobs.

• “If our high-precision dates continue to pin these three events – the impact, the extinction and the major pulse of volcanism – closer and closer together, people are going to have to accept the likelihood of a connection among them,” said Mark Richards, professor of earth and planetary sciences at Berkeley.