Sentence examples for stole close from inspiring English sources

According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, between independence in 1960 and the return of democracy in 1999, Nigeria's leaders and their accomplices stole close to $400 billion.

Over the next several days, we made several landings on Victoria and Banks Islands, where we trod endless tundra and stole close to a herd of musk oxen, the shaggy-coated beasts drinking their fill in a ravine before thundering away like a horde of unruly Visigoths.

He's since returned about $4 million worth of stuff, but he probably stole close to $100 million".

Among them are former finance minister Avraham Hirschson who stole close to two million shekels from the National Workers Labor Federation while acting as chairman of the organization, and the current minister of economy, Aryeh Deri, who spent nearly two years in jail for taking bribes while he was interior minister.

Pierce, apparently, has stolen close to a billion dollars from a gangster named Shaw Steven Berkofff), who is also hunting him.

As an executant of the young king's commands, Bute, though equipped with no grander a title than groom of the stole, was close to being prime minister.

Steal close to a fat, sweating carafe.

In fact, the A-10 never would have been built had not the Air Force believed the Army was trying to steal its close air support role -- and thus millions of dollars from its budget -- by building the Cheyenne helicopter.

If you are certain that there are more than two cookies, remember how many cookies you wanted to steal and close your fist around that number of cookies.

To steal the closest electoral-vote election in American history, you'd have to steal around 500 votes, all in one state.

To steal the closest popular-vote election in American history, you'd have to steal more than a hundred thousand votes, an average of two thousand per state.