come close

How To Use come close In A Sentence

• Neither man has even come close to achieving what they set out to achieve - helping their party recover from its crash towards obliteration.
• And then, he saw Nathan waving a hand, signaling him to come closer.
• While my pickoff has been a valuable asset my entire professional career, only in the last season and a half have I come close to perfecting it, including ways to better set up what I call my "A" and "" A+ "moves. Baseball Prospectus
• If breakfast is insufficient you come closer to the exhaustion of hepatic and muscular glycogen. The Sun
• Indeed, my friend Susan lives on an upslope that has never, ever come close to being flooded.
• Even those that oppose simple reductionism do not come close to Myers's ultimate hopes.
• The moment the men come close, they raise their sticks and attack them.
• Feel things may be getting excessive when a multipack of batteries doesn't even come close to filling your toys.
• It is a Tolstoyan study in human fallibility in the context of global history, the like of which nobody on this side of the pond has come close to emulating.
• No other chef has ever come close to the scale, complexity and inventiveness of his creations.