How to Use too close for comfort in a Sentence

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• If the polls are any guide, the recall election is too close for comfort.
  — Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 28 Aug. 2021
• Yes, the game was too close for comfort, but a win is a win, even against a 17-point underdog.
  — Dallas News, 12 Dec. 2022
• Yes, rush-hour commutes are a pain and the next-door neighbors might be too close for comfort.
  — David Martindale, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 31 Jan. 2024
• Of course, even the most private of residences in New York can be too close for comfort.
  — Rachel Silva, ELLE Decor, 13 July 2023
• That one, in a game that had become a little too close for comfort, gave Flower Mound a 6-3 lead.
  — Shawn McFarland, Dallas News, 11 June 2023
• Rather, what drove her to the gun shop was her sense that violent crime was coming too close for comfort.
  — Washington Post, 10 July 2021
• At this point, Kristen Wiig and Jon Hamm are far from getting too close for comfort.
  — Edward Segarra, USA TODAY, 4 June 2024
• Things feel either too close for comfort or too distant!
  — Tarot.com, Baltimore Sun, 11 May 2024
• North Korea and Russia are getting too close for comfort.
  — Lauren Huff, EW.com, 16 Sep. 2023
• Now, Berlin wonders if its partner has gotten too close for comfort.
  — Bertrand Benoit, WSJ, 13 July 2023
• Owings Mills coach Jarrad Martin knew his upper weights were the strength of the team, but admitted the win was a little too close for comfort.
  — Mike Frainie, Baltimore Sun, 18 Jan. 2024
• Drop a Tail, Drop a Body Geckos and many other lizards are well-known for sacrificing a tail when predators get too close for comfort.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 6 June 2023
• The Huskies struggled with low energy all night, but Arnold and Muhl kept them afloat every time Villanova got too close for comfort.
  — Emily Adams, Hartford Courant, 13 June 2024
• Zach Piller and his dad were fishing off the Jersey Shore near Belmar when a humpback whale decided to pay them a visit that felt too close for comfort.
  — CNN, 21 Oct. 2022
• But many residents, visitors and officials said the fire was much too close for comfort.
  — Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 27 Aug. 2021
• The bullpen was uncharacteristically shaky, the eighth inning was upside down and the final score was a bit too close for comfort.
  — Joe Freeman, oregonlive, 23 Apr. 2023
• While scientists agree that objects in that list are too far apart to collide, and likely won’t, there’s no consensus on what distance is too close for comfort.
  — Clarisa Diaz, Quartz, 3 Feb. 2022
• But the danger encoded in the polls is that enough voters might come to see Biden as embodying a stagnant status quo and Trump as the alternative to it, which feels a little too close for comfort to 2016.
  — Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 12 Nov. 2023
• Leo July 23 – August 22 A personal relationship could be too close for comfort at the moment.
  — Tarot.com, Hartford Courant, 4 May 2024
• Your guests will be able to experience the thrill of majestic animals like lions and panthers without getting too close for comfort.
  — Seventeen.com Editors, Seventeen, 1 Dec. 2022
• Her relationship with her assistant, Simone, seems too close for comfort.
  — Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 1 July 2024
• The space station itself had to close and then reopen several compartments repeatedly in November 2021 when space junk came too close for comfort.
  — Terry Castleman, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2024
• Candidates in competitive primaries appear to be finding the matchups with their fellow party members a little too close for comfort.
  — Mary Jo Pitzl, The Arizona Republic, 16 Apr. 2024
• But in recent years, earth fissures have been creeping too close for comfort for some, opening and swallowing parts of local and state roads, making travel in the sparsely connected community even more difficult.
  — Jake Frederico, The Arizona Republic, 19 Oct. 2022

Last Updated: 10 Oct 2024