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Example sentences for "close examination"

  • The Reredos is a noble example of modern work, and is worthy of close examination.

  • A close examination of the grotesques should not be omitted.

  • The misereres are wonderfully carved, and are worthy of close examination.

  • The miserere seats here are worth a close examination, being carved with very quaint emblematical imagery; as, for example, the panel which figures at the end of the present chapter.

  • The monuments in the Abbey Church will reward a close examination.

  • A close examination of the finger-marks showed a white circle, centered with a ragged dot of blood near the knuckle; this had undoubtedly been caused by a wart on the hand of the assassin.

  • Then the detective made a close examination, and made still another discovery--a name in one corner of the rumpled handkerchief.

  • Harry Bernard laid the garment down on the bed, and Darrel began a close examination of the same.

  • Something like a misty cloud had been settled on the water, rather less than a league from the ship, in the western board, and had hitherto prevented a close examination in that part of the horizon.

  • After the first astonishment was over, Mark made a close examination of the place.

  • A close examination of numerous striped or spotted species, as tigers, leopards, jaguars, zebras, etc.

  • Sclater for description, the oriole and the honey-sucker were, previous to close examination, considered to be the same species.

  • On this, the violin being handed to its owner, a close examination is made all over the outside, and through the sound-holes.

  • A close examination of the surface is now made, if found quite satisfactory, it may receive its final polishing by the application of some very fine glass paper wrapped round a piece of cork, with a little clear oil dabbed on it.

  • But his extreme anxiety to save the credit of his author has betrayed him, it seems to us, into an apology which will not bear a close examination.

  • This argument is plausible; but it will not bear a close examination.

  • Though plausible arguments and objections have been urged against this doctrine, we are perfectly satisfied they will not bear the test of a close examination.

  • They often cause bleeding from the mouth and nostrils, and may be seen by close examination.

  • Any actual enlargement will at once arrest the hand; any rising or irregularity will create suspicion and lead to close examination.

  • If a close examination is made the foreign body can be felt from the outside.

  • Viewed externally, the compartments in appearance are only four; but on close examination, the lateral compartments are seen to be divided by a very fine fissure into two nearly equal compartments.

  • The cage was ascending so leisurely that Gurdon was in a position to make a close examination of the figure before the whole structure had risen to the next floor.

  • A close examination of the whole house disclosed the fact that it was absolutely empty.

  • His idea now was to walk up to the next floor, and make a close examination of the rooms there.

  • A close examination of the machinery of politics and its achievements will bear out the logic of Thoreau.

  • On rare occasions one does hear of a miraculous case of a married couple falling in love after marriage, but on close examination it will be found that it is a mere adjustment to the inevitable.

  • A close examination of the circumstances bearing upon this question will further clarify my position.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    being united; being washed; close approach; close arrest; close confinement; close contact; close covered; close interbreeding; close observer; close relation; close support; close upon; closed the; closely allied; closely pursued; closely related; closely similar; early development; fresh butter; many causes; obtain them; proportional representation; reference books; seem good; setting them; stone steps