Use "come close to" in a sentence

1. Travis may have been the best tattoo artist in Ireland, if not all of Western Europe, but he didn't come close to the skill of this man, at least not when it came to ritual Sak Yant; sacred skin art, Thai style

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2. Alexei had had many women in his time, alien and human, but he noted none that could come close to Tara

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3. Constantinople in its prime might have come close to the scope and hubbub of this city, but never had the levity she saw here

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4. Under the close eye of the bodyguards, who towered above everyone else, the family was allowed to come close to greet the queen

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5. Martin had become close to Jorge his first year at the University because of his scholastic aptitude

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6. Hilda had been close with Edgar and, when she and Raul’s two boys perished in the worst tragedy of his life, it seemed to affect Edgar possibly more profoundly than it did himself: any time the subject had even come close to being mentioned, he had stared at him with doe eyes welled up with tears, and quickly departed, or switched conversation to an unrelated something else

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7. Only then did she come close to a smile - about once in three, four months

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8. “There is nothing your father could say or do that could come close to what I’ve experienced with my family

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9. 7 And I saw him come close to

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10. “It’s a little complicated,” Calvin said, “but I assure you there is no active performer who could come close to Terry Tucker in his understanding of what it takes to become a star and stay on top

11. volcano once stood, Derek had come close to naming this special

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12. What was curious was the way Jack had been surprised by Becky not being dead rather than the fact she had come close to it in the first place, but his thoughts were interrupted by the two officers sitting opposite him

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13. I was beginning to lose my grip on reality the way I had dangerously come close to before and if I hadn’t heard the crackling of leaves, the stems under someone’s light footstep, moving the way only a vamp knew, tracing the forest the way only a vampire could, I would have given in to Levi then and there, without a care for what would have happened afterwards

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14. by the thought that he might become close to her father,

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15. Walter Thompson, it was natural to become close to agency people who handled our national outdoor business

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16. “At first he merely studied her, and I think he has come close to knowing the totality of her being

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17. On top of that, Dodge pickup trucks and International Harvester Scouts, even with the doors removed for ease of entry and exit, didn't even come close to providing the type of armored and armed transportation required to relieve guard posts at a defensive perimeter in a fire fight

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18. Simon would have tried to come close to him if that particular blessing had been granted, in a way they had never been close for most of his life

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19. 15:3-9 Why do you all also contravene the commandment of God by your tradition because God commanded saying: “Honour your father and mother” and: “He who curses father or mother let him die the death”? Instead you say: Whoever shall say to his father or his mother: “By whatever you might be profited by me it is a gift (for God)” and so he does not honour his father or his mother so he shall be free so you have made the commands of God void by your tradition you hypocrites; Isaiah did properly prophesy about you saying: “These people come close to Me with their mouth and honour Me with their lips but their heart is far from Me; so in vain they worship Me teaching the commandments of men as doctrine”

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20. He isn’t just some spiritual being that’s so holy no one can ever come close to Him, approach Him, or please Him

21. The fullness of these realities is so infinitely vast in comprehension that no earthly book could dare come close to revealing them

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22. And they come close to asserting that the SPECT scan proves the existence of God, or, in the authors’ cross-cultural term, ‘absolute unitary being

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23. Tress groggily came around, the pain was still intense but at least she could draw some breath now, luckily the scouting troops had not come close to her location, well not whilst she had been conscious

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24. And yet, this vast complex of computer systems and collective databases cannot begin to come close to the power, the memory, or the recording capacity of the Akashic records, he says

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25. With the launch of the DS, it seemed that nothing could ever come close to Nintendo’s throne

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26. Souls who have come close to the truth, on the

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27. She couldn't come close to becoming an

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28. There have been no books on the subject that have come close to the best seller status that is held by these two books:

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29. No physical blows could come close to the absolute devastation Eva felt at that very moment

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30. The knee of the back leg should come close to

31. It would be close to a year before I let the new guy come close to my

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32. This is not to say that there are not forces that can come close to equaling God's

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33. nothing could even come close to the joy and wonderment of a passionate

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34. Ruth was fantastic! Never before, in his relatively short life, had any woman even come close to exciting him the way that Ruth did

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35. Another time when they were alone in the front room of her house, which wasn’t often as was the case in his house, the conversation turned to sex, something they had come close to

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36. `Like what?' Victor was looking into her eyes but he didn't smile or come close to it

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37. I couldn’t come close to that

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38. `I would never allow your to come close to touching me!' she said as she almost spit

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39. `I was married to her for twenty three years and not once in those years did she even come close to wanting me

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40. `Well, I forgot to mention one thing about Eric during his trial when I testified,' At this Gorham stood up from his seat and was about to head to her when she turned to him and shouted, `Don't you dare come close to me unless you are planning to stop this

41. one dared to come close to the rooms

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42. The guards mocked me yet I noticed with wry amusement that they did not come close to the bars

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43. If it‘s a good play with professional actors, a convincing script and perfect scenery, you should feel what the writer of the play wanted you to feel (anger, frustration, sympathy, sadness, pain, regret, grief, sorrow, or a whole host of other emotions, none of which come close to joy)

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44. Unfortunately, adoption levels don't come close to the

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45. What could best come close to describing this machine, was a beetle with two sharp ovals so close to its flanks they seemed to be one, and claw like structures curving out of almost all the creases

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46. He had unwittingly come close to landing the Fish of God himself

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47. Gaston was not only a fierce lover, with endless wisdom and imagination, but he was also, per-haps, the first man in the history of the species who had made an emergency landing and had come close to killing himself and his sweetheart simply to make love in a field of violets

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48. He said her meddling had come close to ruining everything, and he told her he had everything under control before he came to Shreveport

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49. Most likely our pain doesn’t come close to others who have suffered before us and still go through the agony today

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50. come close to this understanding, you come into this,

51. Most likely the value of the wood I cut, split and stacked didn’t come close to what I would have made had I not been home sick

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52. "Fuck no! I wouldn't let one of those goons come close to my virgin ass that would be a travesty

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53. could come close to the entire package offered by Shannon

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54. � Nobody on General Joubert�s staff could come close to her when it came time to plan an apparently impossible mission

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55. He had come close to being locked inside what Thomas had called

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56. This time, he’d come close to

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57. Thankfully, none had come close to them

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58. She had come close to parading around in her new bra that

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59. He wondered if the EMT would come close to

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60. We both tried to follow the various kicking and punching and jumping that the instructor threw at us, but we didn’t come close to mimicking her movements, and instead appeared to come off as a couple of slow Stanleys headed for the short bus

61. As a general rule, most insurance agents, financial planners, financial media “experts” and stock brokers don’t have a clue about this nor do they even come close to understanding it

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62. even come close to achieving what he has,

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63. Instead of replying with words, Catherine started crying quietly, prompting Claudette to come close to her

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64. Ralph hid the vibrator guiltily behind his back, giving their leader a sheepish smile in a desperate attempt to diffuse the situation, which unfortunately for him did not even come close to working

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65. What really lifted my spirits was that Diane intuitively sensed who the entities were, something no one else had even come close to doing

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66. Her body tingled as Soren stirred up feelings inside her no other man had even come close to

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67. He must admit to himself that during his tenure he has been unable to come close to living up to any of the Mandela principles

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68. ‘In a way yes,’ said Chandrika nostalgically, ‘but those who happen to come close to us tend to be a hindrance than of any help

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69. The sheer amount of manpower and resources that they would lose in such a venture wouldn�t come close to what they would hope to gain by way of looting

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70. In young manic depressive men egoistic and ambitious wishes come close to erotic one

71. Even that hard-to-top horror that Poe couldn’t have dredged up from his most opium-aided imagination—The Inquisition—won’t come close to beating today’s variety of torture and death-dealing techniques

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72. allowed to become close to me to figure out what is different about

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73. who are engaged in the practice of yog and have come close to the de-

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74. Years ago he had come close to losing Abby, and now he was close again, albeit in a much different manner

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75. ” Carl pushed away from the chair, causing it to rock back and forth and come close to toppling over

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76. She’d come close to losing one of her eyes to a smaller branch—it would be nine years later when her left eye would be cut from its socket—that struck a glancing blow to her upper cheek

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77. As of now, we don’t even come close to deserving the one we have

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78. She had become close to the two girls, or as close as she believed they would allow, for they always seemed to have this special little secret between them

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79. would become close to Grace and not disappoint her, for her dying wish was that Grace and I

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80. They thus take him as a guide in order to come close to God through him, for he (cpth) is the best imam and the best companion for our spirits

81. ‘Being drunk doesn’t come close to being an excuse

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82. the internet and none come close to the returns of the "Secret Affiliate Weapon"

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83. I don’t think anyone has come close to topping what I have

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84. No words could come close to explaining the tragedy they’d witnessed and neither of them had tried—for which Ellie had been eminently grateful

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85. It didn’t come close to the loss of a child

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86. Here come close to me!”

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87. They had not come close to the spot where the road would improve, and in parts it seemed miraculous that they had passed through at all

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88. His dog was dead, and he hadn’t even come close to stopping Christina’s assailant

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89. “Please, like that no-talent hack could come close to me

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90. But why had he not come close to us? I began to understand within the next few moments

91. “I’m the only one that can come close to it without dying

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92. But of course it's the day from hell so this doesn't even come close to happening

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93. To reduce it to a formula doesn’t come close to capturing or describing the vast richness of variables and forces at play

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94. Yet, when faced with the reality his imagination had not even come close to doing her justice

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95. It was said it took three men to even come close to defeating one of the invaders

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96. "Even when you lived there, you didn't even come close to seeing all of it

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97. to hug him knowing that she had come close to

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98. But you do not come close to understanding everything in this Knowledge in order to think incessantly and make Choices only within the activity of SFUURMM-Forms that belong to it, and that is why you get tired very quickly, and are more subject to the obstinate desire to occupy yourself with something more primitive

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99. When she would come close to him, he could feel the

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100. I eject the magazine, even though I haven't even come close to emptying it, and slam the new one into the rifle