Sentence examples for pushed close from inspiring English sources

He was turned down, arrested, tortured and pushed close to suicide.

But in the end the reader feels that this is cultural history pushed close to the point of self-parody.

The design of the women's javelin was changed after successive world records pushed close to 80 metres (262.5 feet) in the late 1980s.

It also retains tenuous control of the airport in the southeast, although rebels have pushed close to its fences and claim to have positioned many antiaircraft weapons there.

Stocks finished modestly higher yesterday, lifted by late-session bargain hunting after the Dow Jones industrial average pushed close to a five-year low.

Having been pushed close by the Lib Dems in a byelection a year ago, I'm the last person to dismiss their threat.

The buses will be pushed closer to the houses.

"For economy, millers have pushed closer and closer to the bran," she said.

I watched from the side of the stage as a scrum pushed closer.

I pushed closer and was now standing on the grave's lip, looking down.

As the branch structure is pushed closer to center stage, a man's head, on its side, comes into view.