Sentence examples for closing in on something from inspiring English sources

We could have coasted on that momentum but Andy and I were closing in on something new and different.

Now, they are closing in on something that seemed impossible when they were 13 1/2 games behind on Aug. 18.

But having said that I'm comfortable that we are closing in on something that would be close to full employment conditions and that makes this kind of decision appropriate.

"We're closing in on something that we haven't really had good answers for yet," Smith says.

Over on the Op-Ed page, where I am migrating in September, every columnist except one has written a book or two or three, though only one is closing in on William Safire's 20-something output.

You're closing in on 500 episodes; is that something you still see doing indefinitely?

"There was this sense that something was closing in on him," Simon added.

And any concerns about what Jeter might look like at the end of a new six- or seven-year contract, when he would be closing in on 40, would have been dismissed as something to worry about way down the road.

Maryland is closing in on 200.

But Madagascar was closing in on me.

Martin was closing in on 60.