Sentence examples for close to hurting from inspiring English sources

And it quite came close to hurting the process".

Jones later added that Hall "never came close to hurting me".

That might be true, but I'm concerned that you're very close to hurting yourself, and then who knows what else could happen.

Its sudden surfacing on the American political landscape came close to hurting Perry, because a third, even-more-conservative candidate, Debra Medina, fought the Tuesday primary with the explicit backing of Tea Party activists.

If you aim for the halfway point of the feather, you won't even be close to hurting the chicken but will take enough of the feather off to make it difficult for the chicken to fly.

Here are some: Chainsaw ganados have the need to get really close to hurt you.

Luce believes you can't "count on anybody," and she is loath to let anyone get close enough to hurt her.

Even if they can't duplicate what you do exactly, they can get close enough to hurt you - or take it to the next level and render your processes obsolete.

So, he must keep up his act to be popular, and let no one close enough to hurt him – so goes his self-centred belief.

So, he must keep up his act to be popular, and let no one close enough to hurt him so goes his self-centered belief.

I refused to let anyone get close enough to hurt me, constantly keeping a wall between anyone who threatened to bring the vulnerable out of me.