Sentence examples for sort of close from inspiring English sources
Is that sort of close to your intentions?
And this sort of close call may turn out to be a lost cause.
His '97 basic chardonnay, as a food-friendly wine, gets sort of close to the mark.
On taxes for the rich, he came sort of close; otherwise, nothing.
The sort of close shave of which working parents' lives are made.
The wall to the rear of the Happy House Painters looks like scuffed-up old plaster, ready for a slap of emulsion and a sensitive sort of close-valued abstraction.
In Race 3, a wet, wild affair with blasting winds that peaked at more than 30 knots, the Italians stayed calm and collected in a tight downwind crossing that is the sort of close-quarters racing in which Cayard and his mates usually thrive.
As the hints and starts intended to propel the narrative become increasingly distracting, you may find yourself wishing that Kennedy hadn't tried to write the sort of close-third-person noir novel in which something momentous happens — a student kills two women with an ax, a flier takes malicious enjoyment in bombing the enemy's cities.
In response, there has been a sort of closing of ranks.
He particularly liked the railroad eavesdropping, which sort of closed the circle.
