Sentence examples for more closely knit from inspiring English sources

I see four people, tanned, even more closely knit.

Last week, the monetary fund said Europe should hold off until euro countries are more closely knit.

A family of 50 people is a lot more closely knit than a family of 2,000 people.

The more closely knit an animal society is, and the more interdependent its members, the higher the rate of taxation.

Informal ties of all sorts were unraveling, and Americans were becoming an ever more isolated, cynical and anomic lot -- detached from civic life, deprived of the social networks that develop when communities are more closely knit.

"It is always very difficult to reverse a negative trend," said Schumacher. "But last year's troubles have had the effect of making the team even more closely knit together".

I feel as though the elements are more closely knitted together, and we have created a lexicon for this kind of work so it's easier to understand what we are engaging in.

Although "union" implies a more closely-knit organisation than "community", the union treaty deals mainly with inter-governmental matters defence, foreign policy and home affairs, whilst the community treaty deals with the core economic business of the customs union and single market, and so on.

Rural communities are generally more are closely knit, and people know each other well to ascertain their poverty status.

While crime in Britain as a whole has fallen in the last decade -- by 14percentt between 1995 and 1997, according to the government's most recent figures -- it appears to be on the increase in rural areas because the communities are not as closely knit, more houses are empty during the day and there are fewer small farms whose owners might have once watched out for one another.

Small, closely knit groups are more isolated and have higher levels of redundancy.