Sentence examples for someplace close from inspiring English sources

He had to be laid up someplace close.

"Someplace close to the airport," he said, suggesting the kind of globe-trotting life he envisions for the next few years.

The undercover F.B.I. agent, posing as a businessman, was recording the conversation with a device secreted someplace close enough to capture the politician's words, but obscure enough to remain undetected.

Most foreign universities ask for a personal statement -- usually an essay on why you want to attend the college or pursue a certain field -- and an interview, either over the phone or someplace close to home.

(This turned out to be not quite true; the old man had probably said something merely pettish, like "Tell him to stay away!") The terms of his exile were unclear, but Voltaire decided to move someplace close enough to feel like France and far enough away to keep him out of the official grip.

The startup runs shuttle buses of agents around to do jobs, and optimizes their schedules so they land someplace close enough to walk or take public transportation to their next job if need be.

He often wondered why he and Malcolm and their mother didn't live in Palm Springs or Palm Desert, someplace closer to his mother's work.

MOSES: Yeah, let's just go someplace closer, where no one currently lives, even if it's just regular Land, and not the Promised Land.

Struggling last winter to come up with someplace closer, we remembered a quiet spot in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont, a few miles south of the Canadian border: Jay Peak.

A fair number of Harp and Hound patrons live in the Niantic area, Mr. Roche said, so if they were loyal enough to travel to Mystic, he thought, why not tempt them with someplace closer to home?

ROBERT A. MCCAFFREY, who has lived all of his 67 years in Garrison, across the Hudson River from the United States Military Academy at West Point, can recount stories of buyers who moved in, lured by the astonishing beauty of the area, and then within a year sold their homes and left for someplace closer to supermarkets and other suburban amenities.