Home
Idioms
Top 1000 Words
Top 5000 Words


Example sentences for "close upon"

  • Accordingly we hauld in Close upon a Wind, and sent a boat ahead to sound; after making some Trips we Anchored at 8 o'Clock in 5 fathoms, a Sandy bottom.

  • At this time we shortened Sail, and hauld off shore East-North-East and North-East by East, close upon a Wind.

  • A moderate breeze of Wind with some flying showers of hail and rain; close upon a Wind all this day.

  • Indeed, night now was so close upon us that had not the caƱon in which we were run east and west, we would have been for some time past in darkness.

  • I am not yet on that brink, but I am close upon mysticism, and never so happy as when I thus lose myself and scatter my own self, so that I have some difficulty in finding it again.

  • Close upon noon I met Kromitzki coming back from a long walk on the Kaiserweg.

  • I love as a man with diseased nerves, a man who is close upon mania; love as old men do, clinging to love with all their might, as it is for them a question of life.

  • One sunshiny afternoon, close upon winter, Arthur and Mr. Duffham went out riding.

  • And, close upon my heels, wanting to share the box with me, came Dan Sanker.

  • Close upon that, they fell in with the watchers, Gisby and the rest.

  • It was a terribly hot evening, close upon sunset.

  • Close upon that, it was known that Ketira was laid up with rheumatism.

  • Close upon this Mr. Lake took a week's holiday, leaving that interesting young deacon as his substitute, and a brother Rector to preach on the Sunday morning.

  • Close upon that, Charles Stirling of the Court (my place) came in; and Mrs. Todhetley went to the kitchen to say that we should require supper.

  • Nineteen--close upon twenty, I think she said," replied the mother.

  • Close upon Juliet's thus taking up her residence with her aunt, finding perhaps the farm rather dull, she struck up a flirtation with Fred Scott, or he with her.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "close upon" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    case they; close action; close arrest; close attention; close behind; close column; close confinement; close embrace; close prisoner; close proximity; close relation; close support; close watch; closed circuit; closed door; closed eyes; closed shop; closed system; closed vessel; closely covered; closely related; guess they; not right; private charity; will power; young sir