How To Use Close-set In A Sentence
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Her eyes missed nothing; her dainty close-set ears heard all -- the short, dry note of a chewink, the sweet, wholesome song of the cardinal, the thrilling cries of native jays and woodpeckers, the heavenly outpoured melody of the Florida wren, perched on some tiptop stem, throat swelling under the long, delicate, upturned bill.
The Firing Line
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The study, published in the April 2002 issue of the journal Archives of Dermatology, suggested one reason is due to a larger area of close-set sweat glands in men's armpits.
Out, Out, Pesky Sweat Stains
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Frank had the close-set eyes and straight nose of his Bohemian ancestors and, by his late teens, a hardened face.
The Sins of Brother Curtis
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This pleasing prodigality would be easier to browse if the columns of text were not so close-set.
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Close-set buildings, laundry lines, slant light, patches of weeds, a few would-be gardens and bare ailanthus trees and the fire escapes that fixed fretwork patterns of light and shade on the walls and paved surfaces.
Underworld
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The _inflorescence_ is a raceme of spikes, varying from 1-1/2 to 3-1/2 inches, with the spikes mostly densely arranged, though occasionally distant and not close-set, on a long; slender, puberulous or scaberulous peduncle; _rachis_ is flexuous, flattened, grooved and scaberulous.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
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Butterflyfishes have small mouths filled with brushlike, close-set teeth.
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But Dyer was coming down the stairs: a shaven head, burning black, close-set eyes, tight twill trousers.
PASSION IN THE PEAK
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Closer examination, however, reveals the loris's close-set eyes and the nails on its feet and hands.
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The only course was to plunge into the close-set thickets where riders could not follow. and run for the Severn.
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The massive structure, some 45 metres wide, was defined not by banks and ditches but by hundreds of close-set oak posts.
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It was pale, and its ribs protruded like the rungs of a close-set ladder.
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He had close-set gray eyes, a snub nose, and a smiling mouth, framed by short blond hair.
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Blennies have scaleless, elongated bodies, and comb-like, slender, close-set teeth, which can be either fixed or movable.
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Next to your lordly wall, in dignity of enclosure, comes your close-set wooden paling, which is more objectionable, because it commonly means enclosure on a larger scale than people want.
The Two Paths
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On Saturday, April first, the moon lit the way to Paul's house, - and April floated up the street lined with close-set houses, wearing cucumber perfume, carrying a box of condoms and jell in her jacket pocket.
His Unlocked Window (april fool's challenge)
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He has a round, prominent forehead and close-set eyes.
David Walker, the prophet of deficit doom, and his sermon to save America
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Shane was a serious sort of young man with close-set eyes and a curly page boy that was already thinning on top.
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We followed a little, fast-running irrigation channel most of the way up through forest and watched a woman picking myrtles with a device that looked a bit like a comb on the front of a box you would need very close-set teeth to do the same with Scottish blaeberries.
Day 9 – Trient via the Fenetre d’Arpette
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Onion hoe A small hand version of a swan-necked draw hoe, useful for working between close-set plants and rows.
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And now, his huge gaunt form more erect than it had been for years, with a glinting of blue fires in his small and close-set eyes, he was lifting his ancient chant again.
LIKE ARGUS OF THE ANCIENT TIMES
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He looks at you with close-set yellow eyes without knowing what happened.
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Mostly all baboons have long almost dog like muzzles, heavy powerful jaws, close-set eyes thick fur except on their muzzle rough spots on their rear ends and a short tail, the rough spots on the rear ends of the baboon are called ischial callosities.
CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]
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Finally, upstage right a cluster of small, close-set houses like a typical Mediterranean village represents Ephesus.
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In plan, the present building began life as a simple rectangular structure of three bays, with close-set studding on the ground floor and square panelling above.
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The emergence of primates, with their close-set eyes and stereoscopic vision, coincided with the appearance of flowering plants and the new host of insects that fed on them.
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In the freestanding mirror, Kenji could make out the monkey's close-set eyes peering unblinkingly at its own small, reddened face.
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The other looked less human than the rest - his limbs were too out of proportion, his eyes were too close-set and large.
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Click! past the grocery and Click! past the corner and Click! only feet from the sidewalk where children are chasing each other from between close-set houses and Click!
Stop-Motion Imagery
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He's a skinny little hillbilly Jesus with bandy legs and close-set eyes and a clever, foxy face.
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Closer examination, however, reveals the loris's close-set eyes and the nails on its feet and hands.
