Sentence examples for close to victory from inspiring English sources

Nigeria's opposition candidate appears to be close to victory in an election followed closely in Africa and around the world.

Elliott Sadler's voice wavered after coming so close to victory.

We lost our leader and came close to victory.

What he wants is for everybody else to be close to victory, his victory.

And I stopped our army many times when they were close to victory".

Year after year they crept close to victory, only to lose again in ever-more-histrionic fashion.

This just puts Miliband closer to victory.

Of all the White generals, Denikin came closest to victory.

But the miners, at times, came much closer to victory than is often thought.

Venus got closer to victory today than she has in more than a year.

LAUDERHILL, Fla .— Sandwiched between a soccer game and a barbecue, the Montgomery College cricket team edged closer and closer to victory.