How to Use come close in a Sentence
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This isn’t the first time its use has come close to expiring.
—Rebecca Santana, Chicago Tribune, 9 May 2023
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The city hasn’t ever come close to fulfilling the pledge.
—David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Dec. 2023
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The Spurs equaled the Pelicans with 32 points off the bench, but that tally doesn’t come close to telling the whole tale.
—Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 21 Mar. 2023
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And the best passers in the NFL typically come close to hitting 70% of their throws.
—Jarrett Bell, USA TODAY, 29 Aug. 2023
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None come close to reaching the heights of Wan’s vision, but there are a few gems and a few real stinkers in the bunch.
—Vulture, 8 Sep. 2023
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No one in Hawks history has come close to his record 28 hat tricks.
—Phil Thompson, Hartford Courant, 30 Jan. 2023
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There was no crooked number, and there still hasn't been a ball hit that's come close to going out of the ballpark.
—Todd Rosiak, Journal Sentinel, 1 Apr. 2023
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For now, the star power won’t come close to rivaling Clark or Reese.
—Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 2024
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Robby Newton was tossed into the deep end of the pool last week and didn’t come close to sinking.
—Mark Stewart, Journal Sentinel, 5 Jan. 2023
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Davis did not come close to earning the contract value.
—Bernie Pleskoff, Forbes, 15 Feb. 2024
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And both Frances and the young man do come close to some kind of breakthrough, some revelation.
—Cressida Leyshon, The New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2023
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But none have come close to Trump’s unvarnished quid pro quo on spending.
—Alexander Smith, NBC News, 23 Feb. 2024
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Yet none of the locations has come close to securing a union contract with the company, and the pace of the union’s growth has slowed.
—Daniela Sirtori-Cortina, Fortune, 28 Feb. 2024
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But the first season set the bar impossibly high for the second, and the new season can’t come close to clearing it.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 18 Apr. 2024
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Heck of a third period, but the Avs for about 43 minutes didn’t come close to matching the intensity of the Stars.
—Sean Keeler, The Denver Post, 12 May 2024
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No one in the locker room has won more titles or has come close to what he’s accomplished in that sector.
—Mohammad Ahmad, cleveland, 30 Jan. 2023
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No one in major-league history has come close to putting up such numbers.
—Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 6 May 2024
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Now 65, he’s come close to freedom on three occasions in recent years.
—Jeremy Gorner, Chicago Tribune, 18 Sep. 2023
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Nobody has come close to matching his achievements at the plate and on the mound, becoming one of the majors’ elite players in both roles when healthy.
—Ronald Blum and David Brandt, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Dec. 2023
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The opposition didn’t even come close in their spending.
—Mike Hendricks, Kansas City Star, 16 Apr. 2024
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Dua Lipa, Drake and Jack Harlow come close with six each, all three achieving marks in the night’s biggest categories like artist and song of the year.
—Thania Garcia, Variety, 11 Jan. 2023
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No other franchise, dozens of films in, has managed to come close to that kind of consistency.
—Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 27 Feb. 2023
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The Daniels’ movie is simply resonating with the industry in a way no other contender this year has come close to.
—Vulture, 10 Mar. 2023
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More than 20 years after the GameCube's debut, no gaming audio has come close to matching the earworm that is the sound of that cube rolling around a black screen.
—Robert Anderson, PCMAG, 1 May 2023
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Only the spouses of coal miners and oil and gas industry workers come close.
—Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post, 16 June 2023
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The flames have come close to some 10 municipalities, but there have been no injuries or burned homes so far.
—Elena Becatoros, Chicago Tribune, 21 Aug. 2023
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Only a very active reading of the translation can come close to that kind of excitement.
—Nathan Jeffers, Hazlitt, 28 Feb. 2024
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The only markets to come close were urban Hawaii, up 7.4 percent, and Boston, up 6.8 percent.
—Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Apr. 2024
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Upfront volume figures don’t come close to representing money in the bank.
—Brian Steinberg, Variety, 19 July 2024
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Republican candidates running against Murphy do not even come close to his fundraising haul.
—Lisa Hagen, Hartford Courant, 17 July 2024
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