Sentence examples for close to picking from inspiring English sources

We are very close to picking somebody.

Arthur maintains that he isn't close to picking either man.

So far no one appears to be close to picking up a check.

"The Great Beauty" isn't, but it will win, though I was close to picking "Omar" as the surprise victor, because, politics aside, it's a tightly realistic spy thriller.

At one stage, he looked close to picking up a federal seat when he stood against Warren Entsch at the 2013 election.

He and the Lab judges are close to picking the winner of the quiz who submitted the best answers to the three extra-credit questions.

Trump came closer to picking Christie than is generally known.

This week they came a step closer to picking the only candidate (Ségolène Royal) who polls say can beat the front-runner on the right, Nicolas Sarkozy.Three Socialists are contesting the nomination for next spring's presidential election.

The fledgling Los Angeles Football Club, which will join Major League Soccer for the 2017 season, is closer to picking a place for its new custom-built home.

It's been two weeks since the last Republican presidential debate, and the party hasn't come any closer to picking a frontrunner in the goat rodeo that is the 2016 primary race.

Clever ideas have always been everywhere, of course, but companies were often too closed to pick them up.