press close
Example Sentences
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While the densely packed pilgrims from all across the Orient press close, torchbearers and musicians swirl round a procession of painted elephants.
From Time Magazine Archive
He believes they can safeguard vital sea-lanes during peacetime and could press close to Soviet shores in the early hours of a full-scale conventional war with the Soviet Union.
From Time Magazine Archive
People are clustering ten deep around it, waiting for a turn to press close to the glass that protects it.
From "You Bring the Distant Near" by Mitali Perkins
Other guards press close and Officer Bomini up in the tower trains his Thompson on Mrs. Capone.
From "Al Capone Does My Shirts" by Gennifer Choldenko
Now and then, when I am tired and the things of this world press close and hard, I think of those long days on that lonely lake, and the home-coming at nightfall.
From Tenting To-night A Chronicle of Sport and Adventure in Glacier Park and the Cascade Mountains by Rinehart, Mary Roberts
