Sentence examples for close to said from inspiring English sources

"Donors give to organizations they are close to," said H. Art Taylor, president and chief executive of the BBB Wise Giving Alliance.

"I think what you can certainly anticipate is that McGreevey will do something that is connected to people he's been close to," said Ingrid Reed of the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers.

"He has been able to open doors I couldn't get close to," said Don Leahy, a former Nebraska-Omaha athletic director whom Alberts brought back as a part-time associate athletic director.

At the same time, Al From, the chairman of the Democratic Leadership Council, a centrist Democratic group that Mr. Lieberman is close to, said that in his presidential race, Mr. Lieberman was unable to win the widespread support of Jews.

It comes close to saying, "What you lookin' at?".

Some come close to saying very little and end up saying more than you expect.

Girardi came close to saying that Granderson's progress has been behind schedule.

Rake, according to the advance version of his script, will come close to saying the answer is yes.

In a lengthy postscript to this revised edition, Holroyd gets close to saying that perhaps his father was right.

It didn't come close to saying what he meant but it was all he could do.

It sounded perilously close to saying that the bagel we were searching for was just round bread.