How to Use close in on in a Sentence

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• Carter won its Saturday-night game at Houston Yates to close in on the top five.
  — Denton Ryan, Dallas News, 28 Aug. 2022
• The half-hour comedy takes place at the end of the world as flesh-eating zombies close in on a hardy group of survivors.
  — Matthew J. Palm, orlandosentinel.com, 29 Oct. 2020
• By then, sales are expected to close in on $150 billion per year.
  — Brad Japhe, Forbes, 12 Sep. 2021
• At this point Gilmer was starting to close in on Frankl’s conjecture.
  — Kevin Hartnett, Quanta Magazine, 3 Jan. 2023
• Exactly how the tapetum’s fibers close in on one another isn’t yet clear, even two decades in.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 28 June 2022
• The national media converged to see if the Cubs could close in on history.
  — Paul Sullivan, chicagotribune.com, 7 July 2021
• Russian forces have seized cities in Ukraine’s south and continued their campaign to close in on Ukraine’s two biggest cities.
  — Washington Post, 9 Mar. 2022
• By the end of the game, air temperatures are expected to dip into the single digits and close in on zero.
  — Natalie Eilbert, USA TODAY, 18 Jan. 2022
• As the hills close in on the road, desert hackberry trees, although present as midsize shrubs earlier in the hike, suddenly appear as robust trees.
  — Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 15 Sep. 2022
• As Stone is being detained, other protestors close in on the officers.
  — Chris Harris, PEOPLE.com, 30 July 2020
• Women in America are watching the walls close in on our rights not too long after our mothers and grandmothers fought to shatter glass ceilings.
  — Erin Coulehan, Glamour, 4 May 2022
• But dark forces called Imperial Inquisitors, former Jedi recruited by the Empire to hunt their own, are starting to close in on him.
  — cleveland, 27 May 2022
• But as regulators tried to close in on illicit activity, bad actors evolved their strategies to stay one step ahead.
  — Nana Ama Sarfo, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2023
• At other times there’d be a trite, acidic taste to the words that were spoken, and each of them would retreat inward and close in on the fact that their own grief was integrated into the individual stories of those who were now gone.
  — David Means, Harper's Magazine, 23 Nov. 2021
• But researchers like Bylsma and Vingerhoets are continuing to close in on some of crying’s biggest mysteries.
  — Naomi Weinshenker, Discover Magazine, 9 Aug. 2022
• As Russian forces close in on the capital of Kyiv, transportation across the country faces significant disruption.
  — Serena Coady, SELF, 1 Mar. 2022
• Clients wear an Oculus Go, and the therapist cues up a specific virtual environment where the walls progressively close in on them.
  — Jaime Stathis, Wired, 2 June 2021
• However Titans better also be mindful of what's behind them as surging Colts close in on division lead.
  — Nate Davis, USA TODAY, 7 Dec. 2021
• French diplomatic and military sources have indicated that Paris would seriously consider intervening if the rebels were to close in on N'Djamena and threaten the stability of the country, a former French colony.
  — Reuters, CNN, 23 Apr. 2021
• Using string theory, in which reality arises from the vibration of impossibly tiny strings, Polchinski developed a theory of objects called D-branes, which serve as the end points for strings that don't close in on themselves.
  — Anil Ananthaswamy, Scientific American, 1 Mar. 2023
• Using string theory, in which reality arises from the vibration of impossibly tiny strings, Polchinski developed a theory of objects in string theory called D-branes, which serve as the endpoints for strings that don’t close in on themselves.
  — Anil Ananthaswamy, Scientific American, 30 Nov. 2022
• Those indictments — and the convictions, plea deals and immunity to follow — would help investigators close in on higher-ranking conspirators.
  — Emily Langer, Washington Post, 14 Sep. 2022
• As the various investigations around Trump continue to close in on him, his campaign to discredit and intimidate his accusers will only intensify.
  — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2022

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024