Sentence examples for cannot come near from inspiring English sources

(Apparently, Rosen cannot come near a fabric without testing its stretchiness).

While he cannot come near Britten in expressing sinister erotic appeal, Mr. Berkeley is good at murky scene-setting, as in the opening low glissando figures, and at moments of exasperation, like the passage where Rochester's baritone seems to be pushed up and tightened by an insistent piccolo.

"They surrounded us but didn't come near," Camille says.

Then a figure appeared, drew nearer, withdrew, only to come near again.

And here is why: quality of opponent notwithstanding, Tebow cannot come close to the near throwing masterpiece Sanchez put together Sunday.

Then, gradually, I come nearer.

Lindsay Anderson's productions of David Storey's plays perhaps come nearest.

Furthermore, D'Arminio praised several of the episode's lines of dialogue and wrote "I cannot even come near to picking a favorite quote for this episode".

"They'll attack anything that comes near," Mr. Wade said.

They cannot escape the feeling that this occasion is coming nearer with each day that passes.

In the second verse, the narrator cannot bring himself to come near to his lost love's grave.