Sentence examples for briefly approached from inspiring English sources

For me, the show faltered only at the end, when it briefly approached the faux seriousness of the documentary within it.

The Coast Guard said that more than 40 Taiwanese fishing boats and 8 Taiwanese patrol craft briefly approached the disputed islands, but had since departed.

Just before the lunch started, Prime Minister Trudeau briefly approached Mr. Trump and shook his hand as the American president sat at the head table, according to a White House pool report.

Thanks to the religious conservatives, each of these alleged rivals to Mr. Romney has climbed quickly in the polls, has briefly approached Romney's own poll numbers 20-300%), but then has plunged back into single digits.

During that time, the storm re-intensified and briefly approached hurricane intensity, although it failed to strengthen further due to interaction with a cold front.

Money has poured into east Asia since late September, and the currency has inched up, briefly approaching 7.7 Hong Kong dollars to the American dollar in spot trading, and 7.76 in one-year forward contracts.

At lower frequencies such as 0.1 Hz, the pore can be seen to briefly approach a high-conductance state before becoming blocked as the potential oscillates to a negative voltage.

After shaking hands and addressing the crowd briefly, Edwards approached a group of young boys lined up on a playing field.

After the suspect walked back to his car briefly, he approached the victim's vehicle again, opened the door and punched the victim about five times.

Males stopped calling only briefly when approached.

Briefly, we approached community organizations, including churches and temples, and obtained the list of members, and then randomly selected individuals aged 18 or above.