Sentence examples similar to close to stop from inspiring English sources

They just couldn't come close to stopping him.

"I came close to stopping it three times," Mitchell said.

In fact, the only thing that came close to stopping him was a curious squirrel.

And worse, there's no evidence that the bleeding is close to stopping.

Slowly, he stopped gagging so much, but his mother admits she came close to stopping the programme.

His catalog includes more than 500 songs, and at 76, he does not seem close to stopping.

The film itself comes close to stopping time, mostly through long boring scenes of Glauco doing nothing much at all.

(Mr. Jones's soothing recounting of this tale is expertly done, but this overlong monologue does come close to stopping the play's momentum).

But we should stop pretending that this legislation will come close to stopping the mass murder problem we have in this country.

This time Kuipers pointed to the spot and Ramsey stepped up to convert the penalty, although Benaglio again came close to stopping it.

Among them: an apparent global migration toward cities, which have long been known to discourage, but not come anywhere close to stopping, private vehicle use.