Sentence examples for seeming close from inspiring English sources

With Baghdad seeming close to being encircled, the pastor of Calvary United Methodist Church in the Bronx appealed yesterday for an end to the war in Iraq.

The Lower Manhattan skyline rises up, seeming close enough to touch, against a backdrop of clouds; tugboats push barges to and fro; cars and trucks race underneath on the cantilevered Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. Brooklyn-Queens Expressway

China seemed close enough.

Publication seemed close.

On Monday, the two sides seemed close.

At times, the Knicks seem close.

She seemed close to passing out.

He seemed close to questioning the operation.

The session seemed close to breaking down.

Finally negotiations seemed close to success.

Some diplomats seem close to despair.