Sentence examples for pushing close from inspiring English sources

When I stood on the stage at E3 last year announcing Minecraft for the Xbox 360, I had no idea we'd be pushing close to 9m units.

Some suggested that positive news from across the pond, where the Dow was pushing close to 12,000, was behind the rally late in the day.

By 1900, the area was pushing close to 100,000.

"We are pushing close to 200,000 Catholics in a diocese that used to have around 60,000.

They are pushing close to $200 billion a year in business, and the big boss will always be connected to that business.

Services like WhatsApp — at an average of 15 billion messages per day as of November — are now pushing close to SMS's 20 billion/day messaging dominance.

Snipers are everywhere, and the army's armored vehicles can be seen pushing closer.

Stephen Strasburg might be pushing closer to that management-imposed innings limit — whatever the number might be.

He has also incurred the wrath of many for aggressively pushing closer ties with China.

The party's thrashing reflected growing dissatisfaction with the KMT's pushing closer economic ties with China.

"Even now when I'm speaking they are pushing closer to try and hear what I'm saying".