Sentence examples for close to mocking from inspiring English sources

"Le Corsaire" comes awkwardly close to mocking Muslim prayers toward Mecca.

He comes this close to mocking the occasion -- the Don Ho music, the limbo contest, the tacky party favors -- but he holds off.

Sister Roma's idea of what's "real" comes closer to Mock's version.

It seemed dangerously close to that mocked up Tony Blair selfie.

Cross the river and follows signs for Appletreewick, and find the Craven Arms close to the Mock Beggar Hall, an old monastic grange that testifies to the village's connection to nearby Bolton Abbey.

He noted that an interceptor never got close to a mock warhead in a recent test and chided antimissile officials for, in his view, belittling the cause of the failure.

While all samples from different dosages were close to the mocks at 1 dpi, the late time-points followed a similar curved trajectory.

And even as election officials in the United States grappled with a race that was too close to call, this mock election, sponsored by the American Embassy and American businesses, had unambiguous results: the votes went almost 2 to 1 for Mr. Gore.

Until the end of the experiment, concentrations dropped to values close to values of mock-infected cells.

Moreover, the minimum signals derived from infected cells treated with one of the positive anti-influenza compounds were close to that of mock-infected cells.

Last week, for example, a consultant close to the White House openly mocked Mr. McCain as a publicity hound.