Sentence examples for closed the range from inspiring English sources

But the storm closed the range.

This time Webb was unable to get off and the monitors closed the range.

At 16:07, lookouts aboard Scharnhorst spotted the vessel, and less than an hour later Scharnhorst had closed the range.

Ten minutes later, she had closed the range enough to identify German torpedo boats, and engaged them.

Ten minutes later she had closed the range enough to identify German torpedo boats and had engaged them.

The heavy smoke nearly caused the three Austrian cruisers to collide, but it covered them from the fire from the British ships as they closed the range.

It was to give islanders the choice of retaining the Navy -- and its exercises -- or closing the range in 2003.

In a nonbinding referendum held on Vieques last Sunday, 68percentt of voters supported closing the range immediately.

"We're not going to have an alternative as good," said Representative Duncan Hunter, Republican of California, who opposes closing the range.

Spee was well aware of the British advantages and refused to allow Cradock to close the range.

Both ships were to close the range to 15,000 yards as quickly as possible, then turn for broadside fire.