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Example sentences for "close enough"

  • This is close enough," he whispered to Jack.

  • Here she remained until Lord Hastings believed the German battleships had approached close enough to be in range of the submarine's torpedoes.

  • Before the submarine can submerge, we shall be close enough to get her.

  • The two boys in the motorboat knew how to manage, and brought the little vessel in close enough so that even clumsy Bumpus was able to clamber aboard, after handing up his possessions.

  • We ought soon to be close enough to shoot," whispered Sandy, after he had raised his head for one of these inspections.

  • Seems like you must have been close enough to hear it all!

  • You are going to take the broadleaf down in your boat, close enough so that you can parachute it down to where it has to go.

  • That is, if Bergenholm is sure that the duplication is close enough .

  • Then, after making a series of observations, he went inert and established an intrinsic velocity which, he hoped, would be close enough.

  • I can make some guesses--close enough, probably, for Discovery work.

  • Maybe you're close enough to them to catch them with diffracted waves.

  • I should think you'd still be close enough to make it out, Joe.

  • I'll get a set of temperature readings as soon as I'm close enough.

  • I'll do what I can," Donald promised, "if you will take me up close enough to get a fair shot.

  • However, its rider at last drove it up close enough to get his hands on the rope, and when the horse found that it was holding something, it seemed to gain confidence.

  • I believe we can crawl up close enough to get a shot.

  • Is that next ridge just in front of us close enough?

  • It should not be close enough to the artillery to suffer from fire directed at the artillery.

  • Corporal Burt:= I say, "Brown, wait here until Carter is close enough to see which way you go and then trot up to me.

  • When I come to a trap that has a skunk in it, I approach the skunk, advancing a single step at a time, with a good strong stick about four feet long, with the stick drawn up in readiness to strike as soon as close enough.

  • Another thing that I have but little use for is a trap from which the animal must take the bait in order to spring it, for often the animal will go up close enough to a trap to inspect the bait but will not touch it.

  • Now when I am close enough to make the blow sure I strike the skunk a hard blow across the back, and immediately after, I place my foot on the skunk's back, holding the animal tight to the ground.

  • It might be close enough for a man to shoot one in but won't be near as close.

  • Five years be close enough; it's a little less than 5, but 5 covers it.

  • Maybe they just thought they were close enough to the three objects to see them plainly.

  • Cantrell's Comet swings about fifty million kilometers outside Jupiter's orbit at aphelion--close enough for us to reach, and yet probably too far for them to find us easily.

  • It's close enough now so that we can get it on the plate," and he set the communicator beam upon the metropolis of Titan.

  • Think I can figure it close enough so that we'll be able to find it in our little telescope, or even on our plate, since we'll be out of this atmosphere.

  • I saw a form movin' in the shadow o' the cottonwoods, and stalked it careful, finally gettin' close enough to make out the Friar.

  • I knew he would make a few remarks first, even though he was alone, an' I judged I could wriggle up close enough to grab him in the act.

  • And Kate crying on a couch in the other room, close enough to the heating stove so that she could keep the fire up without putting her injured foot to the floor.

  • Murphy says there's one on Taylor Creek, but the people have gone down below for the winter; and it's close enough so Kate could walk over and find out for herself.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "close enough" 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:
    belligerent powers; close attention; close column; close contact; close covered; close fight; close quarters; close upon; close vessels; closed circuit; closed door; closed vessel; closely akin; closely bound; closely related; closely resembles; closely resembling; closer inspection; drown myself; good sermon; guilty knowledge; pounds pressure; short length; what constitutes; wine merchant; yellow stain