Sentence examples for seemingly close to from inspiring English sources

Yet when Samuels was out, caught on the boundary, he walked off seemingly close to tears.

"As close as we were last night, it's hard," he said, seemingly close to tears.

Though he was seemingly close to the movement's founder, Mullah Omar, it is unclear how much influence he holds over Taliban foot soldiers.

Refusing to apologise, the Uruguayan said he "regretted nothing", which did little to dispel the image of a man seemingly close to breaking point.

His alarmingly risky policy of installing nuclear weapons in Cuba for local Soviet commanders to use should they perceive that the Americans were attacking brought the world seemingly close to the brink of nuclear war.

The business of adding Anthony, an N.B.A. All-Star, is certainly topical, given that Anthony was seemingly close to joining the Nets and will probably be traded somewhere in the next few weeks.

Instead, interminable hikes to Stansted and Luton, airports seemingly closer to Holland than the UK yet still (hilariously) prefixed with "London".

Seemingly closer to the judge's own outlook are the two pinkish combination screenprint and lithographic works from 2000 by Eileen T. Ferara of Jersey City, titled "The Senses: Sight" and "The Senses: Sound".

Thirty-one seconds later, the rover's Navcam Left camera snapped an image of the light seemingly closer to the Martian surface.

The boughs of trees, swaying uncannily in the breeze, appear to faintly grasp and claw at you like sinister, sentient tendrils, seemingly closer to fauna than flora.

Here, and in the daily preoccupation with the state of his health, in his detachment from those seemingly closest to him (particularly his new wife, played smartly by Sarah Gadin, tempting and aloof at all times), as well as in his sleep deprivation, the character recalls the great billionaire recluse Howard Hughes.