How to Use closely/well observed in a Sentence

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• There is also a need for a closely observed account of the United States’ messy alliances.
  — Anne Barnard, Foreign Affairs, 15 Oct. 2019
• Over the course of the 1930s, its members closely observed the political shifts in Europe.
  — Yosola Olorunshola, Quartz, 6 Mar. 2021
• The book was closely observed at both the physical and emotional levels.
  — John Warner, Chicago Tribune, 13 Aug. 2022
• Each butler is trained for 12 weeks and closely observed before attending to guests.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 2 July 2023
• Hahn captures the landscape and the culture in sensual, closely observed detail as a result of all that research.
  — Susan Larson, NOLA.com, 21 Dec. 2020
• In her past work, Polley closely observed her subjects while letting their actions speak for themselves.
  — Laura Adamczyk, Chron, 20 Dec. 2022
• Santiago is home to some 1,500 rhesus macaques who have been closely observed by scientists for decades.
  — Lydia Denworth, Scientific American, 8 Apr. 2021
• About 40 percent of those deaths were likely due to arrhythmias, which occurred even when patients were being closely observed.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 29 Jan. 2021
• Astronomers closely observed the Sun and aligned monumental structures, such as pyramids, to track solstices and equinoxes.
  — Kimberly H. Breuer, Discover Magazine, 5 Apr. 2024
• The doctors took biopsies and closely observed what happened both before as well as 1 and 2 weeks after the patients stopped taking their medication.
  — Chelsey Hamilton, Health, 9 Mar. 2023
• The lyrics are accurate and well observed, and that’s why the parody works; instead of being about hot late-night hookups, this is about stealing dumplings and taking out your Invisalign before going down on your long-term partner.
  — Grant Pardee, Vulture, 12 Feb. 2024
• Another one which struck me as especially well observed was this: Chins are famously asset-rich and income-poor.
  — Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 6 May 2021
• Some of the most famous verses concern a particular creature—wild or adorable or filthy or dignified—closely observed.
  — Henri Cole, The Atlantic, 18 Sep. 2022
• Nothing epic happens in this six-episode costume drama, except for the singularity of a life lived during an era of enormous change, which is a source of its soulful, closely observed charm.
  — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2022
• The lead characters are partially based on real-life people, including cops, who Chopra had closely observed.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 24 July 2023
• This well observed and sharply executed horror-drama about the travails and haunting of a Senegalese nanny in Manhattan is a standout debut.
  — Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 4 Feb. 2022
• Nuanced and closely observed, this novel peels back the layers of climate change through monarch butterflies and a spirited young woman in rural Tennessee.
  — Rosanna Xia, Los Angeles Times, 21 Aug. 2023
• The devices scan and photograph fire-prone areas and every ten seconds send images to the county’s fire emergency center, where they are closely observed by dispatchers.
  — Marcello Rossi, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Aug. 2021
• Both Merlin and Pocock confirmed that they have been closely observed or even intimidated by guards and security (including an F-16 fly-by).
  — Matt Blitz, Popular Mechanics, 23 Mar. 2023
• Kennedy closely observed and catalogued the craft of Mexican cooking over decades of living in every state in the country, indexing her rigorous study in a canon of cookbooks that remain crucial references for cooks worldwide.
  — Li Goldstein, Bon Appétit, 26 July 2022
• All of it is closely observed, and those observations are put to highly imaginative use in various transpositions and mollusk workarounds.
  — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 28 June 2022
• Women’s homeownership and its promise of security are at stake in this closely observed story collection.
  — The New Yorker, 2 May 2022
• The sensation of continual anxiety and continual boredom, the fits and starts of activity, are closely observed.
  — Katie Kitamura, New York Times, 5 Feb. 2024
• The decision presents Waymo with what could be its biggest challenge yet: service in the second-largest American city by population, closely observed by government officials who have been skeptical of its technology from the start.
  — Aarian Marshall, WIRED, 1 Mar. 2024
• Throughout, the actors switch fluently between registers, from emotional rawness to slapstick to absurdist comedy, in performances that are closely observed, credible and moving.
  — A.j. Goldmann, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2022

Last Updated: 15 Dec 2024