Sentence examples for close upon from inspiring English sources

When a storm hits, a passerine bird can alight on the nearest available branch or wire with talons that will reflexively close upon contact and remain closed by default, without added expenditure of energy, until the bird chooses to open them again.

I have many choices and, in most of them, the ghost follows close upon my heels.

Following close upon sampling is sample preparation, the entire process whereby the sample is readied for measurement.

They thoroughly disliked each other at first, only to be drawn close upon the German invasion of Hungary.

News of their overthrow comes close upon the heels of the announcement of the coup, which appeared in our later editions yesterday.

Following close upon the Portuguese musketeers were missionaries who, sent by the Jesuit founder St. Ignatius of Loyola, sought to convert Ethiopia to the Western church.

I already feel it closing upon me.

This is the very heart of Hoy, the small centre of himself that cannot be closed upon: his competitiveness.

Globular polymer shaped chains were observed where the chain is closed upon itself.

Upon these dead... Now, in that cemetery in Padua, where they will lie forever, the Italian earth has closed upon David Raikes and his fellow flyers.

We are seeing closed upon closed storefronts.