How to Use closer in a Sentence

closer

noun

• The horses near the front were setting it up for the closers.
  — Dick Jerardi, Philly.com, 6 May 2018
• As the lengthy trial winds down, Davis and Green are the closers for the defense.
  — Craig R. McCoy, Philly.com, 26 Mar. 2018
• Titmus, one of the best closers in the sport, left little room to breathe.
  — C.j. Holmes, New York Daily News, 4 Aug. 2024
• Closers just bring out the worst emotions in most fans.
  — Terry Pluto, cleveland.com, 27 May 2017
• The Reds nearly came back against one of the best closers in baseball.
  — Charlie Goldsmith, The Enquirer, 24 May 2023
• Will Smith: Last-place teams don’t have much use for All-Star closers.
  — John Shea, SFChronicle.com, 13 July 2019
• One, the Padres have a knack for producing ace closers out of scratch.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 June 2019
• Lows reach the 50s in many suburbs while hanging closer to 60 in the city.
  — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 27 May 2017
• So there are guys are getting paid $200 million to be the closers.
  — Sportsday Staff, Dallas News, 21 Apr. 2023
• The time spent doing this brought her closer to the patient.
  — Lucette Lagnado, WSJ, 11 Aug. 2018
• But how does Jansen compare to the other closers who could be in the playoffs?
  — Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2019
• With the extra length, the race would seem made for late closers, but that's usually not the case.
  — Mark Inabinett | [e-mail], al.com, 8 June 2019
• The saving grace had lately been that if Texas could get to one of its closers, things were safe.
  — Shawn McFarland, Dallas News, 28 Aug. 2023
• From Yankees catcher Gary Sanchez to a host of closers, this past week has been a rough one.
  — Usa Today Sports, USA TODAY, 24 June 2018
• Like a good salesman, though, the Toreros proved to be fantastic closers.
  — Don Norcross, sandiegouniontribune.com, 2 Sep. 2017
• Sasaki only pitched four seasons in the big leagues, but was one of the game’s most feared closers in three of them.
  — Si.com Staff, SI.com, 7 May 2018
• All elite closers can strike you out, and Knebel certainly fits that bill.
  — Tom Haudricourt, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 27 Mar. 2018
• No one expects that from one of the game's most dominant closers.
  — Bob Baum, Houston Chronicle, 3 Apr. 2018
• Did the digested food in the victim’s stomach put the time of death closer to 2 a.m. than 10 p.m.?
  — Vibhuti Agarwal, WSJ, 31 July 2017
• Few teams have as deep a bullpen as LSU does, and fewer have three power-arm closers.
  — Brody Miller, nola.com, 7 June 2019
• Any deep closers with something left in the tank will try to pick up the pieces as tired horses stagger home.
  — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 5 May 2023
• Saric will likely remain a starter with Bridges as the closer with Baynes in the mix.
  — Duane Rankin, azcentral, 16 Jan. 2020
• The thing Hughes has going for him is the NL is not full of dominant closers.
  — John Fay, Cincinnati.com, 5 July 2018
• Now, the left-hander returns to the franchise as one of the game's best closers and with the team the most reliable in all of baseball.
  — Journal Sentinel, 19 Jan. 2024
• Street became one of the game’s most consistent closers.
  — Jon Becker, The Mercury News, 30 July 2024
• Kapler really could have used Smith, whose left-handed stuff ranks with that of the game’s top closers.
  — Bruce Jenkins, SFChronicle.com, 14 Nov. 2019
• He, not Federer or Rafael Nadal, has become the best big-match closer in the game.
  — Christopher Clarey, New York Times, 26 Aug. 2019
• Rodriguez struggled to match the production that once made him one of the best closers in baseball.
  — George Sipple, Detroit Free Press, 23 June 2017
• The Sox need to figure out how to bolster the back end of their bullpen with an actual closer.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Aug. 2019
• For a few years, the Yankees employed Aroldis Chapman, one of the best closers in the league, who’d been suspended for allegedly choking his girlfriend and firing a gun near her head.
  — Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Dec 2024