close quarters

Example Sentences

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In Minneapolis, those officers are walking and driving through the largely residential city looking for people to arrest—and coming into close quarters with angry and organized residents.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 17, 2026

“Anytime you have a gathering of kids in close quarters, you risk sharing germs,” says Elizabeth Murray, a pediatrician in Rochester, New York.

From Slate • Jan. 9, 2026

And they have to play in these close quarters; it was a very close kind of set.

From Salon • Sep. 23, 2025

The trial has offered a rare chance for the French public to see the once-revered actor - star of films like Green Card and Cyrano de Bergerac - at close quarters.

From BBC • Mar. 26, 2025

It certainly comes out, living in such close quarters with people, which ones are only looking out for themselves and which ones are thinking about the whole group.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez