Sentence examples for a close runner from inspiring English sources

WAGs - an acronym for the wives and girlfriends of the English football team - was obviously a close runner for the title.

Our Marxist section though is a close runner up; it's always fun to tell a customer that, no, Gramsci is not in our Political Philosophy section, he's over here in these bays devoted just to Marxist thought.

While we are still diehard fans of the classic original, we admit this is a close runner up.

That's high on the list, but the sheer misogyny of Tangled's "Mother Knows Best," capping off as it did decades of Disney's wretched and poisonous stereotypes about mothers, older women and undermining of even an iota of intergenerational sorority, is a close runner up.

The Runners-Up: As a close runner-up, we chose Dolores's response to "Every Teenager Should Have a Summer of '65".

Bespoke: A close runner-up to "couture".

The Nets are a close runner-up, though.

Santorum was a close runner-up in Iowa.

ABC was a close runner-up, largely because of "Desperate Housewives" (14.7 million).

Last week, Matthews finished a close runner-up for N.F.L. defensive player of the year to Pittsburgh safety Troy Polamalu.

Fox led the night over all, while NBC was a close runner-up, averaging 19.4 million viewers.