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
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
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
The two guests who had last entered took advantage of this scene to press close upon the table at which Grasp and his party had been seated.
From William Shakespeare as he lived. An Historical Tale by Curling, Henry
