Sentence examples for once been closed from inspiring English sources

The Marine Corps, the most male of the armed services, is taking its first steps toward integrating women into war-fighting units, starting with its infantry officer school at Quantico, Va., and ground combat battalions that had once been closed to women.

They quickly embraced and caught up, friends who had once been close and no longer were.

It had been an ugly and sometimes violent campaign between two men who had once been close allies.

Then came word that a young man to whom Maysa had once been close had died in Syria.

Defense lawyers asserted that Mr. Allen, who had once been close friends with Mr. Stevens, had turned on him to win favor with the government.

Elizabeth Lipsz, a Montreal businesswoman who had once been close to Biro, and who won a lawsuit against him for unpaid loans, described him to me as a "classic con man".

She considered herself a "people person" — she made Christmas cards for other inmates out of lunch bags and magazine ads, sealed with grape jelly — but she found herself isolated from all the people with whom she had once been close.

Joel, who'd once been close to Richard, agreed.

Oil brought unimaginable wealth to Norway, but it also brought friction to a society that had once been close-knit. .

Sullivan, who had once been close to Jimmy Hoffa, was also secretly operating as an FBI informant, filling in the FBI on the various mobsters who crossed his path.

Areas that once were close to the poles now lie near the equator — as if northern Greenland became the new Bahamas — a phenomenon known as true polar wander.