Sentence examples for close to colliding from inspiring English sources

Come on!" The team-mates came close to colliding around several turns before Vettel, the world champion, overtook for his 27th grand prix win, equalling Jackie Stewart's total.

He came close to colliding with a race motorbike close to the summit, dodging round it at the final instant, then flirted with danger on the descent, cutting each corner to the limit, and adopting an extreme position in search of aerodynamics, akin to a downhill skier's tuck, but with his groin on the top tube.

Last Tuesday, a US spy plane and two Chinese fighter jets came close to colliding 50 miles of Hainan island, where China's four Jin-Class ballistic missile submarines are based.

Elinor Barker swung up the track exhausted and came close to colliding with Laura Trott, who had just changed and was above her, meaning that Trott had to stall then sprint after Joanna Rowsell and Katie Archibald to save the day.

Veep, Julia Louis-Dreyfus's HBO political comedy that returns this Sunday for its sixth season, is no different: over the past six months and change, the show's writers have faced two separate instances where their extremely funny and profane art has come close to uncomfortably colliding with the day's headlines.

The two ships were close enough to collide, but Watson had instructed Cornelissen to delay the ship, not to ram it.

As it happened, the third out of the 10th inning came on a pop-up near the mound, close to where he collided with Wright last season, and Davis said his mind went into "panic mode".

When the Soviet Union decided to put Anatoly Shcharansky and Aleksandr Ginzburg on trial at the same time Andrei Gromyko and Cyrus Vance met in Geneva for the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT), two principles close to American hearts collided: human liberty and human survival.

By Jonathan Schell The New Yorker, July 31 , 1978P. 21 When the Soviet Union decided to put Anatoly Shcharansky and Aleksandr Ginzburg on trial at the same time Andrei Gromyko and Cyrus Vance met in Geneva for the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT), two principles close to American hearts collided: human liberty and human survival.

The two vessels were pounding each other at such close range, they managed to collide with one another at five different times.

"Don't stop for anything," I heard in my head, although I did slow down, only to collide at close to full speed at 50 miles per hour with the huge carcass of a horse.