Sentence examples for close finishing from inspiring English sources

Alonso had to win the race to top Vettel, and he came close — finishing second, just behind the race winner, Jenson Button.

The Euro Stoxx 50, a barometer of blue-chip shares in the euro zone, was 0.3 percent higher at the close, finishing at 3,002.23 points.

Joanna Zeiger, an excellent runner who stayed with the medalists until the final two kilometers, came very close, finishing fourth, and Sheila Taormina was sixth.

If the Clippers did not take over the city from the Lakers, a heretofore unimaginable possibility, they came close, finishing one game behind them in the N.B.A.'s Pacific Division.

Hong Kong's Hang Seng index, having been mired in the red most of the day, pulled up sharply toward the close, finishing 1.1% higher, at 18,211.11, as Ping An Insurance, which resumed trading in the afternoon, shot up 6.05%, to 50.00 Hong Kong dollars ($6.44), on news that Europe's Fortis had abandoned its deal for the Chinese insurer to take a stake in its asset management unit.

Pull the door gently closed, finishing slowly so that it doesn't pound against the frame.

There are pictures that are closed, finished, to which there is no way in".

This metric provides an alternative measure of assembly completeness and accuracy when the closest finished genome is too divergent.

He predicted a close finish.

But there were close finishes in the 64-board semifinals.

There are two ways of looking at that close finish.