Sentence examples for close line from inspiring English sources

As hard as both men were hitting the ball, there were also many close line calls.

But close line calls don't always show up when you need them to.

One Saturday, I played a hothead who became emotional on close line calls, the way John McEnroe would.

Any chance Agassi had at revival ended on a close line call during the second-set tie breaker.

Agassi, despite two close line calls against him during the fourth set, began the fifth with a service break.

Research carried out at the US Tennis Open Championships showed that female tennis players were more than 80% less likely than males to challenge a close line call decision made by the umpire.

Umpires therefore are reluctant to make close line-calls precisely because they cannot be rectified if wrong.

An extension of that would be for the third umpire to make all line calls, as continually proposed, most recently by McCullum, although that would seem cumbersome, and simply adhering to the first point might make umpires more ready to commit to close line-calls.

On the other hand, impossible thinking makes for impossible writing, and he boldly admits that "for almost all of us (even those of us who spend a good amount of time on recent French philosophy), [it] cannot be understood through a close, line-by-line reading".

Each colored line represents a team member, close lines indicate moving sub-groups.

We shuttled between close, line-by-line coding and engagement with select social scientific literature to develop our analytical framework.