How to Use up close in a Sentence

up close

adverb or adjective

• To meet them, to hear from them, and to see their fight up close.
  — Samantha Barry, Glamour, 13 Dec. 2023
• The mangrove is a tree who grows up close to the ocean and our creek(s) here.
  — Maggie Andresen, Scientific American, 17 Dec. 2021
• The mission is the first to study a metal-rich space rock up close.
  — Denise Chow, NBC News, 13 Oct. 2023
• To see her up close in that way and be able to study that is the greatest gift.
  — Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 22 Feb. 2023
• Ward has seen Martinez up close over the past two years when both were in the Pac-12.
  — Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 25 July 2024
• And up close, the best star in the universe—our sun—is an orangey sphere of flame.
  — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 15 Sep. 2023
• Many have watched at a distance, in the news headlines and in the stats, but not up close.
  — Celine Gounder, The Atlantic, 16 Dec. 2021
• The trade-off, of course, was seeing fewer species up close.
  — Elaine Glusac, New York Times, 3 Dec. 2022
• This son of Not This Time has tactical speed and should be up close from the start.
  — Jeff Nahill, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 May 2022
• Pro tip: Grab a seat at the counter to watch the masterful cooking up close.
  — Lindsay Cohn, Travel + Leisure, 20 May 2024
• What is the best way for travelers to explore or see the cenotes up close?
  — Hillary Maglin, Travel + Leisure, 9 Nov. 2021
• In Jacksonville, investors made up close to 30% of home sales.
  — Julia Horowitz, CNN, 23 Feb. 2022
• Book a kayak tour through the mangroves to see Keys ecosystems up close, and then find a place to relax.
  — Caroline Rogers, Southern Living, 30 June 2023
• Telescopes are a great way to help kids explore the galaxy and see the planets up close.
  — Jen McCaffery, Popular Science, 21 June 2023
• Soon enough, us mere mortals will be given the chance to see the gem, and many others, up close.
  — Leena Kim, Town & Country, 5 Apr. 2022
• Now that the wait is nearly over, The Times is getting up close and personal with the cast.
  — Los Angeles Times, 24 July 2022
• Heads up: The seams on the ornament are raised and very visible up close.
  — Quincy Bulin, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 Oct. 2023
• To see it in action, up close, is a whole different thing.
  — P.j. Brown, The Arizona Republic, 16 Mar. 2023
• The final time that Jackson was up close to King would come two years later, in 1968.
  — Scott Talley, Freep.com, 17 Jan. 2022
• Seeing it up close involves an easy half-mile hike on a loop trail.
  — Dan Fellner, The Arizona Republic, 2 Feb. 2022
• Lift your right leg and bring it up so bring your right foot up close to your shoulder so that your foot is flat on the ground.
  — Greg Presto, Men's Health, 9 June 2022
• Visitors to the museum will be able to inspect the gouge up close.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Dec. 2022
• Patrick Tracy of Mundelein, Ill., has seen the disconnect up close.
  — New York Times, 4 Feb. 2022
• To children, parents are, in a sense, like paintings seen up close.
  — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 9 Feb. 2022
• To be up close and personal like that, Lord Jesus help us all.
  — Forrest Brown, CNN, 31 Jan. 2022
• There’s a narrow, 3.5-mile-long road there, on a marshy slit of land off the Atlantic Ocean, that’s worth seeing up close.
  — Clifton Leaf, Fortune, 2 Feb. 2022
• Flocks of A-listers from the worlds of music, sport, fashion and film descend onto the track to catch a glimpse of the drivers and the cars up close.
  — Ben Church, CNN, 6 Feb. 2024
• Just ask guides who know the river up close and personal.
  — Pete Zimowsky, Idaho Statesman, 31 Jan. 2024
• Normal aging can cause the eyes' lens to lose their ability to focus on objects up close.
  — Maggie O'Neill, Verywell Health, 20 Sep. 2024
• Seeing pandas up close is a unique opportunity to learn about the at-risk species while also raising vital funds to support research.
  — Kelly Bowman, CNN, 20 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 28 Oct 2024