Sentence examples for closer around from inspiring English sources


The phrase "closer around" is not correct and cannot be used in standard written English. If you want to convey the idea that someone or something is coming closer together, the phrase "closer together" would be more appropriate. For example, "The family members gradually drew closer together as the evening went on."

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The congregants pressed in closer around the grave, lit by candles and fluorescent lamps.

Pulling his jacket closer around him, the minister said, "At least they had the sense to do it in the summertime".

Here shining rays of light shoot through the darkness of night, and we become aware of giant shadows swaying back and forth, moving ever closer around us and destroying within us all feeling but the pain of infinite yearning, in which every desire, leaping up in sounds of exultation, sinks back and disappears. . . .

The contour lines are closer around Wadi El-Natrun and reach its minimum level −22 m.

Another effect of this systematic error is that the predicted values are bunched closer around the mean than the experimental values.

His family, eyes on the ground, stopped abruptly, then crowded closer around him.

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They close around 5 p.m. and are not open Sundays.

Just four from Harbhajan's over, and the net is closing around South Africa.

We will have closed around 500 posts, and created new posts in other things".

That process continues and Almanza still expects to close around 35 units in total.

Most days the number is closer to around 200,000.

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