How to Use close-in in a Sentence

close-in

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• Much of the movie’s three-hour running time is spent close-in on the faces of star Cillian Murphy and others.
  — Robert Strauss, Los Angeles Times, 2 Jan. 2024
• The exception is the close-in Yellow zone, which runs along the east side of the stadium.
  — Jon Healey, Los Angeles Times, 25 Aug. 2023
• Filming will be happening close-in to Portland, Rosko says.
  — Kturnqui, oregonlive, 23 Mar. 2023
• Delta says the extra service at the close-in airport will drive down fares for visitors to the nation’s capital.
  — Wire Services, Dallas News, 18 July 2023
• Like many small, rocky planets orbiting close-in around red dwarf stars like Trappist-1, this world is expected to be tidally locked just like the moon is to Earth.
  — Eric MacK, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2023
• Thus, any earthlike planet close-in to the star could actually be detected.
  — Bruce Dorminey, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2023
• In all but highly unusual circumstances, yields on long-term Treasuries far exceed those on close-in maturities.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 16 June 2023
• But, Southwest said, the holiday headaches highlighted how the airline's systems were unable to cope with a high volume of close-in cancellations, which was a major factor behind the meltdown.
  — Zach Wichter, USA TODAY, 14 Mar. 2023
• Larkspur Capital has a track record of building apartments and townhomes in several close-in Dallas neighborhoods.
  — Steve Brown, Dallas News, 2 May 2023
• Story continues below advertisement Advertisement All of the men now live in Washington or its close-in suburbs.
  — Joe Heim, Washington Post, 6 July 2023
• In the San Francisco Bay Area, the communities with relatively high increases in housing in our study tended to be at the urban fringe, while many close-in suburbs had stagnant housing development or even a decline in units.
  — Paul G. Lewis, Fortune, 10 July 2023

Last Updated: 9 Jun 2024