Sentence examples for held close together from inspiring English sources

Physicists have known since 1948 that if two flat mirrors are held close together and parallel with each other, they will be pushed together by these virtual particles.

However if the paper was folded, so the two dots were held close together, a pin could punch through from one to the other.

By contrast, a brush has bristles that are held close together, so electrical charges in the form of friction build up faster.

As you read your way through and approach the back cover, life and the book you're holding close down together.

It is sometimes difficult to determine whether the metal atoms are indeed directly linked or merely held quite close together by a framework of bridging ligands.

Using computer simulations of silica's chemical behaviour, the Wisconsin pair studied how two surfaces held very close together change over time.

For Alfréd Hajós of Hungary, this meant he could only compete in two of the events, as they were held too close together, which made it impossible for him to adequately recuperate.

If NFC technology were embedded into access points, laptops, printers and so on, users of those devices could more easily configure their Wi-Fi connections simply by holding them close together.

If you like baseball this could be fun, but using the touch controllers to hold a bat also wasn't that natural – because when you hold a real baseball bat you're supposed to hold your knuckles close together with a tight grip, and the touch controllers don't really let you do that.

"Arabic content today is nothing," he said, holding his fingers close together.

However, holding the conventions close together and somewhat later in the campaign season, as in 2008 and 2012, seems to mute the advantage of going first.