How to Use close quarters in a Sentence

close quarters

plural noun

• Scump had to retreat to the bomb site and play in close quarters.
  — Dallas News, 29 May 2022
• Face masks are believed to help stop the spread of the virus when in close quarters.
  — Edmund Demarche | Fox News, Fox News, 17 Apr. 2020
• The parents did not like the idea of teens in close quarters in cabins.
  — David Sharp, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 July 2020
• Many live and work in close quarters, which can spread the disease.
  — Author: Nicholas K. Geranios, Anchorage Daily News, 3 May 2020
• Many parents have been in close quarters with their kids for the past year and a half.
  — Julie Jargon, WSJ, 14 Aug. 2021
• On top of the close quarters, keep in mind that a duplex means twice the amount of upkeep.
  — Kristine Gill, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Sep. 2022
• With the team in such close quarters, from plane rides to the clubhouse and the hotel, the flu can spread rapidly.
  — Anthony Fenech, Detroit Free Press, 6 May 2018
• They are housed in close quarters and are often in poor health.
  — Lauren Castle, azcentral, 23 Mar. 2020
• The set was designed to suggest the close quarters of a discotheque.
  — Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2021
• Yet the rules of their workplaces — and the need to keep food moving — pressure them to work in close quarters, even when sick.
  — Michael Grabell, ProPublica, 28 Mar. 2020
• Some feared coughing in close quarters; others couldn’t make the rent.
  — Megan Ditrolio, Marie Claire, 20 Apr. 2021
• Many abusers and victims are in close quarters, day and night, during Covid-19.
  — Laken Brooks, Forbes, 13 Oct. 2021
• Both were stuck in their Richmond rental working in close quarters 40 hours a week.
  — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Aug. 2020
• There are hundreds of others who live like him in close quarters, no more than a few feet away.
  — Amanat Khullar, Quartz India, 17 Mar. 2020
• His workshop is full of elves making toys in close quarters.
  — Washington Post, 9 Dec. 2020
• Michael said the hardest part of the journey was being in such close quarters with each other for so long.
  — Maddie Browning, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Sep. 2023
• Plus, young kids by nature play in close quarters with each other.
  — Cassidy Alexander, USA TODAY, 18 May 2020
• And if in shelters, the homeless live and sleep in close quarters – the kind of place where the virus can potentially spread rapidly.
  — Sharon Coolidge, Cincinnati.com, 17 Mar. 2020
• The new bullpup shotgun, a pump action gun with a sleek finish, is designed for close quarters.
  — Andrew Brinker, BostonGlobe.com, 30 July 2022
• It was sidelined in Guam but sailors were still living in close quarters on board as the virus spread unabated.
  — Andrew Dyer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Feb. 2022
• Behind a thirty-foot wall, 1600 of us live in close quarters on open-tier cellblocks stacked four or five floors high.
  — Krista Stevens, Longreads, 24 Mar. 2020
• Others turned to more drugs, more dancing and closer quarters with friends.
  — Simon Rust Lamb, Billboard, 20 June 2019
• But can their friendship survive in such close quarters?
  — Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 13 Jan. 2023
• School, sports, after-school clubs, and the bustling cafeteria put teens in close quarters with each other.
  — Cindy Krischer Goodman, sun-sentinel.com, 28 Aug. 2021
• As the number of people living in close quarters grew, pits no longer sufficed.
  — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New York Review of Books, 9 Feb. 2022
• Many are concerned with people locked in close quarters for such a long period of time.
  — Tribune News Service, oregonlive, 16 Sep. 2020
• Playing in close quarters on a venue stage, the U.K. group offered a high-energy rendition of the song.
  — Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 15 Apr. 2022
• As colder weather arrives, more people will be indoors and in close quarters, which can add to the spread.
  — Erica Lamberg, USA TODAY, 30 Dec. 2020
• If the gravitational force weakens at such close quarters, as some ideas suggest—or if extra, minute dimensions of space are discernible there—the Eöt-Wash team will find them.
  — Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2021
• Norman didn’t back down or run, repeatedly engaging in close quarters exchanges and forcing the referee to step in and separate the two fighters.
  — Ivan Carter, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 May 2024

Last Updated: 13 Dec 2024