Sentence examples for were close to death from inspiring English sources

Too many of them were close to death".

We spent three days at sea and were close to death.

Two of the victims in the Aug. 4 incident were close to death, according to official Chinese news accounts.

Mr. Cheng said that 12 people in the village of several thousand had died of AIDS this summer and that several more were close to death.

They found more than 200 crates full of animals, many so dehydrated in the tropical sun that they were close to death.

When they were found by an Indonesian fisherman off the coast of Aceh, Indonesia's northernmost province, many were close to death.

He was close to death.

Another was close to death.

By now, Humarr Khan was close to death.

Last week, Farinas was said to be close to death.

"He's been close to death several times".