Sentence examples for were close for from inspiring English sources

We were close for the rest of his life.

They were close for forty years until Vuillard's death, in 1940, with no reported upset to Lucy's husband, the dealer Joseph.

Samuel Beckett and Patti Smith were close for much of the day, but Beckett finally pulled ahead late in the evening for a comfortable victory.

We were close for almost sixty years, and you'd think that a little back-and-forth something more than a joke or part of an anecdote—would survive, back-and-forth something

We were close for almost sixty years, and you'd think that a little back-and-forth — something more than a joke or part of an anecdote — would survive, but no.

Obtained data indicated that the predicted and experimental values were close for DR81 elimination, and the regression was also able to give a good prediction of response for DR81 elimination (R-Squared = 0.9983).

United States markets were closed for Independence Day.

London markets were closed for a holiday.

You were closed for 34 days.

Six branches were closed for months.

Both were closed for lunch.