Sentence examples for close to ground zero from inspiring English sources
He had enraged the right by saying at a White House dinner to mark the end of the day's fast during Ramadan that Muslims had the right to build a mosque close to Ground Zero in New York, two blocks from the site of the 9/11 attack on the Twin Towers.
Before moving back to my childhood neighborhood in Brooklyn, I spent two years in an apartment close to Ground Zero, then a generally inactive construction site.
That building is so close to Ground Zero that on the morning of the Sept. 11 attacks parts of one of the hijacked planes damaged its roof.
"Dropped him off on West Street, close to ground zero.
Many opponents have said that a Muslim center so close to ground zero would be inappropriate.
Weirdly, even for some close to ground zero, television authenticated the experience.
Indeed, in areas close to ground zero, the market has trembled.
The Texas panhandle and Amarillo is close to ground zero for wind.
The original notion, Mr. Muti said, was to find a performance site closer to ground zero, perhaps outdoors.
No matter what the trajectory of the asteroid entry, it would have been a phenomenal sight from Rome, and scarier still for those closer to ground zero.
After the Hiroshima bomb in 1945, bamboo survived the atomic blast closer to ground zero better than any other flora or fauna.
