Sentence examples for apart close from inspiring English sources

The South is falling apart, close to surrender, and the Southern states, defeated, and reëntering the Congress — as Lincoln had always wanted — will never ratify the amendment.

Two sediment traps (40 cm high with a diameter of 10 cm) were deployed 10 m apart close to the permanent 5×5 m quadrats at each site.

When you feel like you're about to fall apart, close your eyes and take a deep breath.

Mrs. Gore suggested in a gesture that the field was narrowing, holding her hands about two feet apart, closing up the space then expanding it again.

We're 22 months apart, closer in age than Sam and Ollie are in the novel.

A third B-hordein marker (GBS3204) was placed further apart, closer to γ3-hordein γ3-hordein

Sites were at least 200 m apart (closest distance between 2 sites 226 m, see Figure 1) to minimize the risk of repeating the experiment on same individual native birds and were gardens that used bird feeders regularly to minimize the time needed for habituation of the birds to the feeding station.

If you feel that your hands are too wide apart or close together when you place them near your eyebrows, cut a new piece of thread and start these steps over.

Yet, here are Eli and Peyton, both elite quarterbacks, born less than five years apart, acting close and loving and barely competitive.

U.C.L.A. used a 13-0 run late in the first half to crack apart a close game and take a 35-25 haleadme lead.

This is not a wildly unreasonable point on the face of it, but I do think it falls apart upon close examination.