How to Use close quarters in a Sentence

close quarters

plural noun

• There are hundreds of others who live like him in close quarters, no more than a few feet away.
  — Amanat Khullar, Quartz India, 17 Mar. 2020
• Illnesses can spread quickly in prisons because of close quarters.
  — Patrick Marley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 19 Mar. 2020
• Sometimes they were forced to stand still or sit in their rooms; other times they were supposed to do calisthenics in close quarters.
  — New York Times, 29 Jan. 2020
• And if in shelters, the homeless live and sleep in close quarters – the kind of place where the virus can potentially spread rapidly.
  — Sharon Coolidge, Cincinnati.com, 17 Mar. 2020
• But the world has already seen that if an infected person remains in close quarters with others, the virus can spread quickly.
  — Amy Gunia, Time, 20 Feb. 2020
• And the isolation—combined with close quarters to spouses or children—can be disruptive.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune, 12 Mar. 2020
• And the single, stupidest thing to do is get a couple of million people together from all over the planet and put them in very close quarters.
  — Dp Opinion, The Denver Post, 3 Mar. 2020
• So, yeah, the idea of stadiums and arenas filled with thousands of people, all those germs and viral droplets in close quarters, is a little unsettling.
  — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 10 Mar. 2020
• The productions collectively employ thousands of people, with hundreds of them working long hours in close quarters.
  — Steven Zeitchik, Washington Post, 12 Mar. 2020
• And the gym—where people often jostle for floor space, share machines and equipment, and move side by side in group fitness classes—can definitely feel like close quarters.
  — Christa Sgobba, SELF, 6 Mar. 2020
• Thousands live in close quarters on a vessel never designed as a medical quarantine facility.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 21 Feb. 2020
• Other runes can allow for basic quick dashes, high jumps, slow descents, or teleportation abilities that can be crucial to avoiding damage in close quarters.
  — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 3 Mar. 2020
• Diffusion is the result of people from different cultures living in close quarters and interacting with or learning from one another.
  — Reem Kassis, Washington Post, 18 Feb. 2020
• Nursing homes, in particular, face the prospect of widespread illness because people are in close quarters and regularly receive visitors and require the help of healthcare staff.
  — Kimberly Leonard, Washington Examiner, 29 Feb. 2020
• Scump had to retreat to the bomb site and play in close quarters.
  — Dallas News, 29 May 2022
• Face masks are believed to help stop the spread of the virus when in close quarters.
  — Edmund Demarche | Fox News, Fox News, 17 Apr. 2020
• The parents did not like the idea of teens in close quarters in cabins.
  — David Sharp, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 July 2020
• Many live and work in close quarters, which can spread the disease.
  — Author: Nicholas K. Geranios, Anchorage Daily News, 3 May 2020
• Many parents have been in close quarters with their kids for the past year and a half.
  — Julie Jargon, WSJ, 14 Aug. 2021
• On top of the close quarters, keep in mind that a duplex means twice the amount of upkeep.
  — Kristine Gill, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Sep. 2022
• They are housed in close quarters and are often in poor health.
  — Lauren Castle, azcentral, 23 Mar. 2020
• The set was designed to suggest the close quarters of a discotheque.
  — Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2021
• Yet the rules of their workplaces — and the need to keep food moving — pressure them to work in close quarters, even when sick.
  — Michael Grabell, ProPublica, 28 Mar. 2020
• Some feared coughing in close quarters; others couldn’t make the rent.
  — Megan Ditrolio, Marie Claire, 20 Apr. 2021
• Many abusers and victims are in close quarters, day and night, during Covid-19.
  — Laken Brooks, Forbes, 13 Oct. 2021
• Both were stuck in their Richmond rental working in close quarters 40 hours a week.
  — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Aug. 2020
• His workshop is full of elves making toys in close quarters.
  — Washington Post, 9 Dec. 2020
• Michael said the hardest part of the journey was being in such close quarters with each other for so long.
  — Maddie Browning, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Sep. 2023
• If the gravitational force weakens at such close quarters, as some ideas suggest—or if extra, minute dimensions of space are discernible there—the Eöt-Wash team will find them.
  — Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2021
• Norman didn’t back down or run, repeatedly engaging in close quarters exchanges and forcing the referee to step in and separate the two fighters.
  — Ivan Carter, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 May 2024

Last Updated: 19 Nov 2024