Sentence examples for closed in around us from inspiring English sources

Slowly, the canyon closed in around us, and we entered its flowing, dark space.

Eager to climb, Donn left his father and brothers behind, pushing on with Henry and Fred, when bad weather set in. "Just as we reached the summit, the mist closed in around us and shut off our view of the mountain below," he said in "Lost on a Mountain in Maine" (1939), an as-told-to account of his adventure written with Joseph B. Egan.

The morning closed in around us.

Eventually we warmed enough water for a our purpose, dissolved in the fragrant 'gold', frankincense and myrrh and sat stirring for an hour as the dark and cold closed in around us.

"I remember a real and powerful sense of community closing in around us from the minute we arrived.

A full 27 minutes after our introduction I wrap up the interview as the festival team closes in around us. "I'm sorry you're being eased out," says Humphries, "in favour, probably, of a far less worthy cause".

Then, halfway back to Sukenya, Yamat's car stopped in an open field as scores of Maasai were appearing on the horizon, closing in around us.

But Data Smog is growing far faster, and while it may not be resulting in the kind of plague-like deaths that we can chart on a graph, we've all experienced the smothering impact of having too much garbage data closing in around us.

It's a homage to a group of eccentric English ladies who essentially adopted him, and who tried to preserve their own civility and Florence's treasures as war closed in around them.

Twice on the morning of Nov. 8, Walters was trapped with terrified residents as flames closed in around them.

As a half dozen officers closed in around them, the two kissed, and hugged, and kissed again.