Sentence examples for blitz close from inspiring English sources

Instead, Joan and her sisters, mum and brother live through the Blitz, close enough to the docks to hear the bombing.

It was finished in such a blitz, many close friends weren't even aware Cory was writing a novel.

After a short period in Worcester, the family returned to London, "just in time for the blitz", living close to the railway in Goodmayes.

After the two-year blitz to close excess warehouse space and accelerate the digital programme, restructuring charges should fall away again.

After going scoreless in the first half of Game 1, Moore got rolling during a 17-3 blito to close the period.

Mo Lewis was free on a blitz and closed in on Ramsey for a sack, but Ramsey ducked under him and completed a 48-yard pass to Laveranues Coles to set up a field goal.

Senator John Kerry pulled into the political piggy bank that is California and picked up $6 million for the Democratic National Committee's bulging accounts in 24 hours, part of a weeklong blitz that raised close to double that amount.

Mining magnate Clive Palmer outspent the then incumbent Labor government in the final week of September's election campaign, with new figures from Nielsen recording a $2.7m advertising blitz in the closing weeks.

But, with double rooms starting at £119 and breakfast extra (full English £11, continental £6), the bill, if you throw in an evening meal blitz, will be closer to the luxury than the affordable end of the scale.

If the pest-control compound produces a gas, the intense activities of a blitz (opening and closing many cabinets and removing and refiling many folders during the day) can lead to greater ambient levels than compared to an average day of digitization and to discomfort for the digitizers.

He'd been through a blitz; he'd been close to people in the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.