close thing

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synonyms for close thing

On this page you'll find 16 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to close thing, such as: cliffhanger, close shave, close squeeze, hairbreadth escape, heart stopper, and narrow escape.

How to use close thing in a sentence

  • It will be a close thing; but I agree with you, I am afraid that the lugger will be here first.

  • By the time we got there they had all cleared off, but it was a close thing.

    A Final Reckoning | G. A. Henty
  • Yet it touched me deeply; and the thought of the Man of Sorrows seemed a very close thing—not a faint hearsay.

  • The thing began to buzz—but I watched narrowly my dwindling hoard: it was a close thing!

    The Mercy of Allah | Hilaire Belloc
  • Both John Castellan and the Englishman were good swimmers, and the race was a very close thing.

    The World Peril of 1910 | George Griffith

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