How To Use Close quarters In A Sentence
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Mares which are in the ambivalent early stages of estrus or which are mistakenly in diestrus pose a clear safety threat in close quarters.
TheHorse.com News
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Flights in close quarters can also lead to back pain, swollen ankles, leg cramps and psychological distress.
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But it was an intimate kitchen, with close quarters, and as far as I was concerned, the comradery was all the better.
Jeremy Elias: Death by Dinner Rush
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You can watch aircraft take off or land at close quarters.
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This reduces the risk of airflow interference from kite to kite which at close quarters can have surprising effects!
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The day I saw it, at close quarters, it was perfect - dense, even, verdant grass, not a mark on it apart from the statutory white ones.
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For close quarters battles, you can't go wrong with light machine guns, like the FN MAG and M249, or the man-stopping buckshot of the Pancor Jackhammer automatic shotgun.
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The gun, though supposedly effective at close quarters, has so much recoil and kickback that it is usually not worth the trouble.
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The Globe's surrounding environs are attractive, despite being at close quarters with warehouses and other businesses.
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He wishes to inspect at close quarters all the actors in this drama.
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They may all, however, have been separated from one original mass by the divellent action of the sun at close quarters.
A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition
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At close quarters a rifle is almost useless.
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If you carry and use a knife it is no different from pulling the trigger of a gun at close quarters.
The Sun
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Those who have recently observed him at close quarters can report that he is now in a very pronounced upswing which the loss of one safe Labour seat at a by-election and a narrow squeak in another has left entirely undented.
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The Battle of Stiklestad raged around him as Vikings fought in close quarters with battleaxe and shield.
The Last Viking Warrior | Heretical Ideas Magazine
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I contrived to give one of them a smart tap on the crown before they came to close quarters; but ere I could recover myself they were upon me, the staff was wrenched from my grasp, and I was as hard put to it as a stag bayed by hounds.
Humphrey Bold A Story of the Times of Benbow
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The young people, who looked extremely unbruised when I met them, have the advantage of working with one of the greats at close quarters.
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At close quarters Julio Del Sol was less impressive than he had seemed while he was flirting his cape in the bullring.
DOUBLE DECEIT
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A First York bus driver who managed to stop his single-decker only yards from the two cars, but witnessed the smash at close quarters, was said to be in a state of shock.
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With regards to the number of weapons that a player can carry at any one time, one automatic rifle and one sidearm may be carried, along with a lethal knife for silent close quarters takedowns.
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There tactics were strongly influenced by reliance on line formation and fire-power, as against attack at close quarters.
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From our hiding place we were able to observe the animals at close quarters.
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When you see famous people at close quarters, they always appear much smaller than you imagined them.
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A lot of the stress and fatigue we now feel is compounded by confinement in close quarters.
Tuning the Rig: A Journey to the Arctic
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We would not admit it amongst each other, but each man was pleased to have her in our midst, even though our close quarters already meant that we had spent the last few hours in a dreamless half sleep crushed up against legs and feet on either side, which was preferable, we had all agreed, to accidentally snuggling up to a cohabitant as a man would to a wife.
Passeridae
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The last time I had experienced a death at such close quarters was many years ago as a houseman, but then I was not so personally involved.
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I descend to greet my public at 11 pm and am able to scrutinize at least 6 different chins and sets of grinning teeth at close quarters.
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He was quite as able to be terse and memorable when in conversation and, like Oscar Wilde (who was, like him, disconcertingly vast when seen at close quarters), seems seldom to have been off duty when it came to the epigrammatic and aphoristic.
Demons and Dictionaries
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Here, we saw a menagerie of farm animals and other small creatures at close quarters, too close when it came to the rats, which scurried along a run beneath our feet, and a tame jackdaw, called Jack, which decided to use my head as a perch.
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Close quarters combat training or kevlar armor plates will not save us.
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At close quarters one sees they are far more beautiful, especially in their winter plumage.
Times, Sunday Times
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We all sat in close quarters, awkwardly shuffling our coats and bags.
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Those who work in deep mines experience this heat flux at uncomfortably close quarters.
THE EARTH: An Intimate History
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Well, not much if you chose to ignore the most pin-point hand-eye co-ordination in the modern game, spring-heeled athleticism, deceptive power at close quarters, an astute tactical brain, an inner calm and sense of purpose that drew the best from those around him and deft hands for what used to be called subtle, well-weighted passes and are now termed an off-load as if the practice had never existed before.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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Yet in this case they provided a unique chance to witness the artistry of a great film actress at close quarters.
Times, Sunday Times
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Those who work in deep mines experience this heat flux at uncomfortably close quarters.
THE EARTH: An Intimate History
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If you carry and use a knife it is no different from pulling the trigger of a gun at close quarters.
The Sun
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Knives, bludgeons and handguns are the weapons of kidnappers, not rifles, which are cumbersome, restricting, and inappropriate for violent situations in close quarters.
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The mail byrnie of the Vikings had been sufficient to give reasonable protection to the fighting man at close quarters from the sword-blows of his adversary.
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We can argue the finer points of two vs. three awards of the Purple Heart being deserved or not but there is no doubt that he served in the Navy's riverine forces in one of the most dangerous places on earth at the time – Viet Nam's rivers – and that he repeatedly faced intense close quarters combat.
Kerry endorses in PA despite spectre of 'swift boat' tactics
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When you see famous people at close quarters, they always appear much smaller than you imagined them.
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This is not surprising when so many passengers are seated in close quarters breathing and exhaling infected air.
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For youngsters gathered in white flannels, it was a great opportunity to see their latest batting hero at close quarters.
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He credits Islam and neoliberalism as the forces that keep its many people living harmoniously in close quarters.
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His eyes searching hers from very close quarters, he chuckled when she hastily lowered her lashes.
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Confining the insane in close quarters was only a reflection of the prevailing standard of living rather than an expression of callousness.15
The Mad Among Us
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He was quite as able to be terse and memorable when in conversation and, like Oscar Wilde (who was, like him, disconcertingly vast when seen at close quarters), seems seldom to have been off duty when it came to the epigrammatic and aphoristic.
Demons and Dictionaries
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To anyone who has never seen the legacies of past vulcanicity at close quarters, what more awesome and eye-opening introduction could there possibly be?
Did you know? Even "microwaves" are signposted along Mexico's roads
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Aware how useless was the rifle at close quarters, he slipped both holsters to the fore, ready for action, and drew his mittens till his hands were barely shielded by the elbow gauntlets.
The Sun of the Wolf
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After spending years fighting with his older brother, Angel, in close quarters, he followed Angel onto the wrestling mat.
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How many people could look at power from such close quarters and not grab it with both hands?
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Once they were at close quarters, there wasn't a hope, and by the look of it, through that hell of smoke and gunfire and fleeing men, with Kaffirs rushing past, and the gunners and wagon-men frantically trying to inspan and flee, the surviving remnants of the 24th weren't going to hold that huge press of Zulus more than a matter of minutes.
Watershed
