Sentence examples for closer the world from inspiring English sources

But the closer the world gets to ending, the more wearyingly formulaic "Ring of Fire" becomes.

I worry that the closer the world gets to our fingertips, the further it gets from our hearts.

The closer the world gets to serious diplomatic engagement with Iran on its nuclear program, the more hard-liners in Washington and abroad will push military action if the effort fails.

"The closer the World Championship gets, the more the excitement builds.

English is the closest the world has to a lingua franca.

He didn't wear an actual mask, but something close, the world's fanciest makeup.

It led directly to the so-called Cuban missile crisis, the closest the world has yet come to nuclear Armageddon.

Once we were inside the Vice-President's office and the door was closed, the world of the Black Caucus and the Starr report seemed shut out.

He admitted that in hindsight it was now clear just how close the world economy came to "economic meltdown".

Many historians see the missile crisis as the closest the world came to a Soviet-United States nuclear exchange during the cold war.

In the fifty years of scholarship that have followed the crisis, we have learned ever more just how close the world came to calamity.