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Example sentences for "close action"

  • La Blanche, had brought, on the preceding night, a few minutes after La Minerve's first broadside, the smaller Spanish frigate to close action.

  • Although the French avoided a close action, it is supposed that their loss was 1,200 killed, owing to their ships being crowded with men.

  • Sixth action between the British fleet, admiral Hughes, and French, admiral Suffrein, in the night, in close action.

  • The British schooner Balaboo, of six guns, captured by the American privateer schooner Perry of five guns, after a running fight of fifty, and a close action, of ten minutes.

  • After reconnoitering and discovering her force, and the nation to which she belonged, we hauled upon a wind to stand out of the bay, and at 3 o'clock shortened sail, tacked and ran down with an intention to bring her to close action.

  • At 45 minutes past 2 the signal was made for "close action.

  • At a quarter past six, the gunboats being all out of shot and in tow, I hauled off, after having been three-quarters of an hour in close action.

  • Graves had signaled for "close action," but Hood chose to believe that the order for line ahead still held until the signal was repeated, whereupon he bore down.

  • The following day, the 20th, brought a fresh wind that enabled the English to overhaul the Dutch, who could not move faster than the heavily laden merchantmen, and force a close action.

  • The signal to this effect, however, was soon changed to "Close action," and only the two leading ships eventually broke through.

  • Instead of transmitting the signal to the vessels under him, Nelson kept his own for "Close action" hoisted.

  • The allied van and rear came to close action (Plate VI.

  • The commander of the English van, with his seconds, also behaved with spirit and came to close action.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    caught the; close arrest; close behind; close confinement; close contact; close friend; close order; close prisoner; close together; close vessel; close watch; closed circuit; closed shop; closed the; closely related; closely similar; closer examination; drove down; gone forth; must acknowledge; our journey; physical chemistry; pretty large; report from; sing again; years earlier