Sentence examples for near approach from inspiring English sources

In the seventh, after that near approach to obliteration, the embattled intellect put up its finest stand.

When Kepler arrived in Prague, Tycho and his assistants were involved in observations of Mars, which was then about to make a near approach to Earth.

7 p.m. 8) Candlelight and Catwalks Take an early evening stroll to see the Nathan and Mary Johnson House at 21 Seventh Street, where in 1838 a certain fugitive changed his name to Frederick Douglass ("Here in New Bedford," he wrote, "it was my good fortune to see a pretty near approach to freedom on the part of the colored people").

"It's good that they think low power is important, but their chips are nowhere near approaching Crusoe.

Yet her screen time in Selma nowhere near approaches the screen time she had in the film Lee Daniels The Butlerr, as she played both wife and mom in that film.

If we judged our technological capabilities to be superior to those of the other race, we would attempt near approaches to the planet to determine whether the alien beings were hostile, and if so, by what means.

Nearest approach to them brass-band German musicians.

The nearest approach to art is gratuitous homicide.

Sedna is now making its nearest approach to the Sun.

Prince's nearest approach to identifiable emotion is the exiguous zeal of obsessive collecting.

This summer, it came within 34.6 million miles of Earth, its nearest approach in almost 60,000 years.