"closely lost" is a grammatically correct phrase that can be used in written English.
It means something or someone that is almost or nearly lost. Example: The hiker was closely lost in the vast wilderness, but thankfully, a rescue team found him just in time.
Opinions have differed as to how closely the lost original depended on Roman itineraries and world maps.
Already, the scientists are adding to the data base about the corkscrew-like vortex that comes off each wingtip of planes in flight, generating turbulence that can cause planes following too closely to lose control.
I'm really all right, she would think, carefully, lightly, as she pulled the key from the ignition, trying not to examine the sensation too closely or lose it with any sudden movement, as if it were a thin-filmed shiny bubble poised in her chest.
But for unskilled and semi-skilled workers, people can be more closely supervised, lose freedom and be stuck in low-paying jobs". Just as at the turn of the last century, most Wal-Mart critics say a crucial way to improve conditions is to change laws to make labor unions easier to organize.
But having been involved in three presidential races, two of which we won closely and one that we lost fairly closely, I know enough to know that we weren't brilliant because Florida went our way in 2000 or enough Ohioans stuck with us in 2004.
I still read deeply, and study things closely, and get lost for hours at a time in sprawling, complicated pieces of literature.
Moving beyond a singular focus on truth commissions and legal trials, she considers more closely what is lost in the wake of oppression and violence, how selves and worlds are built and demolished, and who is responsible for re-creating lives after they are destroyed.
The Ebionite gospel has been recognized as distinct from the others, and it has been identified more closely with the lost Gospel of the Twelve.
A former state House minority leader in Georgia, she lost a closely contested race for governor in 2018.
This year's medicare proposal resembles closely the bill that lost in the Senate last July, by a vote of 52 to 48.
