How to Use close quarters in a Sentence

close quarters

plural noun

• They are housed in close quarters and are often in poor health.
  — Lauren Castle, azcentral, 23 Mar. 2020
• 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
• Spending more time in close quarters together, that's how the disease spreads.
  — Kristi Tanner, Detroit Free Press, 26 Mar. 2020
• The low-income workers who do still have jobs, meanwhile, are likely to be stuck in close quarters with other humans.
  — Olga Khazan, The Atlantic, 15 Apr. 2020
• Some say that should have been obvious because of the nature of cruising with thousands of others in close quarters.
  — Curtis Tate, USA TODAY, 13 Apr. 2020
• 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
• In the present context of stay-at-home orders, the book seemingly caters to parents who want to entertain and educate youngsters in close quarters.
  — David Lindquist, Indianapolis Star, 17 Apr. 2020
• Over the last decade, office planners and big employers have shifted to more open environments, with workers sitting cheek to jowl in close quarters.
  — Steve Brown, Dallas News, 16 Apr. 2020
• Conversations happen, though, because of extended time in close quarters.
  — The Washington Post, 31 Mar. 2020
• But those who live in the site and other rights groups questioned if the move was discriminatory against migrant workers and risks spreading the virus in an area with close quarters.
  — Fox News, 6 Apr. 2020
• But for others, who live in close quarters with an abuser, home may be more dangerous than the disease that confinement with family members is supposed to keep at bay.
  — Molly Bohannon and Shaena Montanari, azcentral, 6 Apr. 2020
• Limited air flow, close quarters, and shared spaces all create a higher potential for contagions to travel than normal.
  — Sara Rodrigues, House Beautiful, 26 Mar. 2020
• Counties asked to be able to hold all-mail ballots to eliminate the need to staff hundreds of polling places and allow people to vote without being exposed to large groups in close quarters.
  — USA TODAY, 6 Apr. 2020
• The carrier, like other Navy ships, is vulnerable to infectious disease spread given its close quarters.
  — Time, 1 Apr. 2020
• 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
• The set was designed to suggest the close quarters of a discotheque.
  — Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2021
• 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
• 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
• The new bullpup shotgun, a pump action gun with a sleek finish, is designed for close quarters.
  — Andrew Brinker, BostonGlobe.com, 30 July 2022
• 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

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