Sentence examples for close the thing from inspiring English sources

Just close the thing.

After all, you must pre-cook the bacon to avoid overcooking the scallops, for example, and you have to use a toothpick to close the thing.

The buggy has a built-in generator to power the closing motor and an LCD readout tells you when you can open and close the thing.

Up close, the thing you notice about Federer is how slight his 6-foot-1 frame is; he has stick-figure arms, and his legs are uncharacteristically thin for a professional tennis player.

As August draws to a close, the thing on everyone's mind is back to school.

I closed the thing.

"It closes the whole thing up.

"I think they should have closed the whole thing.

The closing banquet was the closest thing the program had to a final.

Nigel Lawson observed that "the NHS is the closest thing the English have to a religion".

But the Packers are more than the closest thing the state has to an official religion.