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Example sentences for "close together"

  • The whole disc and the terminal segment of both antennae are enveloped, close together, in cement, formed into two almost separate little capsules, by which they adhere very firmly to the integuments of the Alepas.

  • The middle portion, about 1/50th of an inch in diameter, is rather opaque, owing to the slips being so close together.

  • Colonel Oakford, Lieutenant-Colonel Wilcox, and I were sitting on our horses as close together as horses ordinarily stand, when one of these ugly missiles dropped down between us.

  • It had to be quickly done, we were so close together.

  • The larva is moderately stout, and the two prolegs are very close together.

  • Make the padding stitches as close together as possible, or the satin-stitches will be uneven.

  • The stitches must be close together if we want fine hemming.

  • In that case a little padding is required and the stitches should be close together.

  • The trees grow as close together as they can, and the underbrush chokes up the space between them pretty effectually.

  • The two trees, which were enormous ones, had originally grown as close together as they could, and their roots had interlaced beneath the soil.

  • The stockade was made of the trunks of pine-trees set on end in the ground, close together, but pierced at intervals with port-holes, through which the men of the garrison could fire.

  • The question of lateral stability is far simpler; on all ordinary occasions it is sufficiently secured by keeping the skis as close together, and so making as narrow a track as possible.

  • There was a strange throbbing silence that brought them close together.

  • They had been all alone out in the city's streets, close together, feeling as one the reality of life, sharing as one the sharp unconquerable tragedy, suffering together against the injustice of the world.

  • Through all the space girls and women, close together, bent over power-machines which seemed to race at intolerable speed.

  • The three ladies stopped for a moment, close together; and simultaneously the struggling man broke free and dashed back into the crowd, screaming with anger and misery.

  • His little scholarly face, with a sharp curved nose like a beak, and dark eyes set rather too close together, was not unlike a bird's; and a way he had of sudden sharp movements of his head increased the likeness.

  • Looped picots are made along a row of knots by setting the knots, far enough apart for the loop between, to form a picot when the knots are drawn up close together.

  • Take two threads, pin them on close together, make a flat double knot, fig.

  • These knots must be as close together as possible.

  • In this manner two loops are made at once, close together.

  • There were two little moles placed close together on the left side of the neck, in my description of the unknown lady, and there were no little moles at all when you looked at Miss Bygrave's neck.

  • She stepped round to the entrance; looked in; and discovered Magdalen and Frank seated close together.

  • Personal marks--two little moles, close together, on the left side of the neck.

  • He stood as still, as motionless, as silent, and with his heels as close together as if he were a young officer facing his superior in command.

  • It seemed to him that they were both quite close together, and at the same time poles removed from each other.

  • At the beginning of the history we found the earth and the moon close together.

  • The most accurate of these angular measures are obtained when two stars, or two star-like points, are so close together as to enable them to be included in one field of view of the telescope.

  • It is always desirable, also to place all the coldframes and hotbeds close together, for the purpose of economizing time and labor.

  • If the soil is very strong and the trees are close together, it may be well to head them in a little each year, especially those varieties which grow very strong and robust.

  • In the garden, plants may stand 6 inches apart in the rows, and the rows may be as close together as the system of tillage will allow.

  • On the morning of the sixth day, however, being then in the neighbourhood of the Hogsties, the lookout aloft reported at daybreak a couple of sail dead to windward, hove-to close together.

  • I never saw a chariot with its wheels so close together, nor with such long spokes.

  • Turned again, we found the beaters so near us and so close together, that we ran away from them rather than across their line.

  • Without another word we finished saddling, mounted and, close together, with the hounds in front, rode through the forest toward the rim.

  • We got into a region of oak thickets, small saplings, scrubby, close together, but beautiful with their autumn-tinted leaves.

  • The pines were small, close together, and tough.

  • So he manoeuvred around and waited until five of the deer had lined up close together.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    before noticed; close approach; close arrest; close column; close confinement; close covered; close enough; close examination; close friend; close proximity; close quarters; close the; close vessel; close vessels; closed door; closed vessel; closely connected; closely followed; closely related; closer examination; international markets; must refer the reader; not long after the; she got; though well; will offer