Sentence examples for seen so close from inspiring English sources

Its defense minister, Toshimi Kitazawa, said in mid-April that two Chinese submarines and eight destroyers were spotted on April 10 heading between two Japanese islands en route to the Pacific, the first time such a large Chinese flotilla had been seen so close to Japan.

Other birds I'm encountering on my dawn and dusk outings are rather more cooperative: the buzzard that sits tight even as I cycle past, the stonechats that pop up on top of the hedgerows and, best of all, a barn owl – the first I have seen so close to home – that hunts for voles among the hay-bales still sitting in the fields.

Never before has the America's Cup been seen so close to the shoreline.

I dip in and out of its first-person perspective but, most of the time, I like to keep my distance – there's something completely unnerving about a GTA fistfight seen so close.

Then he saw her image — so close to him that it shocked him.

I'd never seen mountains so big rising so close to salt water; I'd never seen so many peaks so close to a city; I'd never felt so dwarfed by highway scenery.

Never before has an election campaign seen so many voters so close to the polling stations opening still to make up their minds.

When people talked of Roosevelt as a possible Democratic candidate in 1932, he said dismissively: "I have seen so many presidents at close hand in the White House that I have come more and more to the conclusion that the task is the most trying and most ungrateful of any in America".

Definitely one of the most innovative trailers we've seen so far — beautiful landscapes, close up child birth and hey, neat future umbrella.

Some had seen combat so close they killed with their knives.

You've never seen them so close, and in such multitudes.