Sentence examples for closest to doing from inspiring English sources

He comes closest to doing this in his final paragraph, where he begins: "What about Bosnia?

The song that comes closest to doing so, "Cold Crush," finds Estelle trying on another role, but one she happens to be extremely comfortable with.

The European country that has come closest to doing an Argentina is Iceland, whose bankers had run up foreign debts that were many times its national income.

"At first it will be just the ones who were closest to doing it anyway, but they will lead by example and there will be many more.

Sandy Benjamin-Hannibal comes the closest to doing the sort of abstract piecework we know from 19th-century Crazy Quilts, to which format Denise Burge adds real-world forms like mountains and skyscrapers.

Nightmares, it turns out, rarely involve literal replays of incidents in waking life; post-traumatic dreams come the closest to doing so, and even these often alter the characters or the setting of the episode.

I was so close to doing it.

He came tantalizingly close to doing it.

They're so close to doing that.

"They were close to doing it".

But it has yet to come close to doing so.