Sentence examples for how very close from inspiring English sources

How very close it was held to be is shown by the emperor Justinian's prohibition of marriage between godparents and godchildren.

Sara's warning was prophetic, although she did not suspect at the time how very close to ruin the Fitzgeralds' lives had veered.

(My father served in the Pacific, with the 3rd Marine Division, so I've looked up the Solomon Islands, where Guadalcanal is, on a map; still, it didn't register until recently how very close they are to Australia).

Last year, enthusing about The Shard, which also stands within his patch, he stressed how the view from Renzo Piano's glass spire brought home how very close the north of his south London borough lies to the wealth of the Square Mile and the West End across the Thames.

It's not surprising Seward lost the Republican nomination to Lincoln; it's only surprising how very close he came to winning.

I swear I don't have Munchausen By Proxy or whatever, but nothing gives me joy like facing down things that life throws at us because it reminds me how very close to the precipice we all live.

Hitoshi explains to Hazumu's friends how someone very close to Hazumu has to donate "life grains" to Hazumu to sustain her life.

Further, these women, like many swing voters, decide how to vote very close to the election.

"How she thinks is very close to art," Nathalie Djurberg said.

"He's telling me how he's become very close to the Iraqi kids.

Again and again, Dostoevsky shows how pride is really very close to humility, and that hate is very close to a kind of sick love.