Sentence examples for close to never from inspiring English sources

"close to never" is a valid phrase and can be used in written English.
It means that something rarely or almost never happens. Example: "I was so busy with work that I had close to never had time to go out with my friends." This sentence means that the person rarely or almost never had time to go out with their friends because they were so busy with work.

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The market came close to never getting built.

Rabelais detested agelasts, because of whom he came close to never writing another jot.

The writer/director's eighth film came very close to never happening.

That's where it gets exciting". The world came dangerously close to never making this discovery at all.

As the team looks forward to their first home game Sept. 24 against the Tennessee Titans, it's hard to believe that just two years ago the Saints came close to never welcoming an opponent back to New Orleans after Katrina was done with their 269,000-square-foot stadium.

Close to never, even.

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"It's a drive towards that live moment … Now is better than later because later is closer to never".

Finally, one step closer to never leaving the house ever again!

Now that Amazon's set top box can be paired with an Echo, the company has brought users another step closer to never having to lift a finger.

We are then one step closer to never discounting a point of view, value, or someone's entire humanity due to a lack of voice.

The return of the airwaves is beginning to look closer to never than to 2006, so some TV station owners have been trying to get compensated by new spectrum bidders for vacating the property on time.

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