Sentence examples for close to sinking from inspiring English sources

But Hughes, wrote Ramo, came close "to sinking the whole enterprise".

Up on 18, Dustin is this close to sinking his birdie putt, but doesn't give it enough on the right.

To load it, Latham first had to flood his barge with water until it floated just below the surface a procedure precariously close to sinking it.

In that scenario, auditors – already alarmed that some councils are fighting to stay afloat – would judge town halls perilously close to sinking.

Details that Navy officials disclosed during the day suggested that the attackers might have come close to sinking the vessel, or at least of so damaging it that the toll could have been far higher.

"Swimming lesson, dream goal – semi-finals!" was the headline in Süddeutsche Zeitung, a reference to the way in which the Munich defence came close to sinking with United 3-0 up before half-time.

A Fast data collection for the node Faraway sink and Slow data collection for the node Close to sink.

A Fast data collection for the node Faraway sink and Slow data collection for the node Close to sink (FFSC) approach is proposed to meet energy efficient, and the end-to-end delay can be minimized in Ref. [4].

To sail off from home in search of the greatest creature on earth and when you have found him, come close enough to sink an iron into his flesh with bare hands and kill him….

He started sticking shots close to pins, sank putts for birdie on Nos. 3, 5 and 6 and was back in business.

Saratoga, placed close to Baker, sank 7.5 hours after the underwater shock wave opened up leaks in the hull.