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Sentence Examples The gun, though supposedly effective at close quarters, has so much recoil and kickback that it is usually not worth the trouble. If the air-powered darts fails for any reason, the gun handset can be used itself at close quarters as a stun gun. Older children can work off a little steam after being confined in close quarters. The close quarters of dayroom and dormitory living had socialized him, made him a good mingler. I have seen half a dozen conflicts at close quarters and know exactly what shrapnel does to flesh and bullet does to bone. The Globe's surrounding environs are attractive, despite being at close quarters with warehouses and other businesses. Living in such close quarters and facing daily dangers engendered a sense of great camaraderie at the Airfield. I have watched at close quarters as he has fended off the most rigorous questions concerning both his private life and his political beliefs. My job gave me the opportunity to study other people's paintings and prints at close quarters. The only occasion I have seen one of them at close quarters was when Princess Margaret visited the Royal Photographic Society. For youngsters gathered in white flannels, it was a great opportunity to see their latest batting hero at close quarters. We're going to be working at close quarters with the people we hire for years. The silent paddle allows wildlife photographers and scientists to observe nature at close quarters. There was a lot you could learn about other people when you were stuck with them in close quarters. There will inevitably continue to be problems that arise from living in close quarters while performing a lengthy, gruelling activity. The familiar, musty odor of monkey fur at close quarters fills my nostrils. The last time I had experienced a death at such close quarters was many years ago as a houseman, but then I was not so personally involved. It seemed a little strange, at first, living at such close quarters to Julie. How many people could look at power from such close quarters and not grab it with both hands? Events of the past five months have forced us all into contemplation of violent death, but few of us have confronted it at close quarters. Show More Sentences The audience is ushered into a series of spaces where battles and banquets take place at close quarters. I descend to greet my public at 11 pm and am able to scrutinize at least 6 different chins and sets of grinning teeth at close quarters. Perhaps there is some pressure placed on people in such close quarters to initiate conversation. It is daunting to strike up a conversation with a stranger, especially if you are in close quarters and have an audience. She had plenty of opportunity to study him at close quarters, for she had agreed to go through his thesis with him, correcting his German. It was a tactic that made Napoleonic War sea battles particularly hellish for those confined in the close quarters of a wooden ship. There are many 19 th-century illustrations of the disastrous possibilities that could befall a whaling boat at close quarters with a whale. The fans all the while remained somewhat in awe as they watched what seemed to be their favourite band in such close quarters. Living in close quarters with her, I decided that the time had come for me to learn how to speak my mother tongue. It does not have the blinding reflective glare that powerful halogen lamps can cause in close quarters. Though our spirits were high, nerves were growing raw in such close quarters. The young people, who looked extremely unbruised when I met them, have the advantage of working with one of the greats at close quarters. Fortunately, our car sprang back into action and we followed him at close quarters, weaving in and out of the other traffic at high speed. When it comes to planting up a window box or tub, select good-quality large bulbs because the blooms are seen at close quarters. One could have observed her at close quarters and would have seen that, however playful, she was a most faithful and devoted mother, carrying her babies with her through all her frivoling. A visit provides you with an opportunity to watch their master carvers at close quarters. Anyone who has seen the effects of war at close quarters understands that it is to be avoided. Bears are interesting to observe and photograph, but they can react suddenly to your presence at close quarters. Having observed the Service at close quarters during all of this time, we too are optimistic. Of course, families need a different set of ground rules, because living together at close quarters can be very intense and difficult. Show More Sentences The boards have all the warmth and beauty of exotic wood, even when seen at close quarters. I could watch men at close quarters with the veil of civilization torn off. Visitors arriving on the Freiberg high plateau will experience a fascinating piece of Swiss geology at close quarters. I myself have experienced at close quarters a rail accident involving dangerous goods. As a member of a local football club board, I have seen this at close quarters. Tourists, in carefully regimented parties, are ferried round to gawp at close quarters at blue-footed boobies and marine iguanas. Volume Four features long and short stick training, counters, snaking and stripping disarms, solo training, close quarters combat and much more! This enhances the driver's capability to operate in close quarters or in tight turning radiuses. The horses and steers are accustomed to each other and very tolerant of close quarters. The British, who watched the disaster from close quarters, were also very interested in such a guarantee. This is a fact you should always take into consideration when driving in close quarters with a large vehicle like this. A typical Goliath Gang, full of muscles and eager to fight in close quarters. A First York bus driver who managed to stop his single-decker only yards from the two cars, but witnessed the smash at close quarters, was said to be in a state of shock. The mail byrnie of the Vikings had been sufficient to give reasonable protection to the fighting man at close quarters from the sword-blows of his adversary. Behind the Iron Curtain, Manea had the opportunity to observe this colonization of sorts at close quarters. I of course have never held the job, but it can't be so different from covering campaigns at close quarters, which I have done. A handgun, a shotgun, and a rifle are all pretty deadly at close quarters, and Lanza went to the school with all three. We all sat in close quarters, awkwardly shuffling our coats and bags. Knives, bludgeons and handguns are the weapons of kidnappers, not rifles, which are cumbersome, restricting, and inappropriate for violent situations in close quarters. For close quarters battles, you can't go wrong with light machine guns, like the FN MAG and M249, or the man-stopping buckshot of the Pancor Jackhammer automatic shotgun. Show More Sentences He was under sustained enemy fire, witnessed fighting at close quarters with bayonets, and the death and serious injury of many comrades and enemy soldiers. It was an unforgettable experience to see Everest at close quarters. In addition, the Court may need to accommodate a large number of victims who wish to follow the proceedings, especially interventions by their legal representatives, from close quarters. Working for 36 to 48 hours at a stretch in close quarters with nine or ten other people from different backgrounds, different education levels, and different prejudices is not always easy. The difficult life in the trenches, the boredom, danger, close quarters with other soldiers and the isolation from their friends and families led to the development of a trench culture. Child jockeys usually live in close quarters with the camels for two or three months before a race so that each becomes familiarized with the other. Mr. Boucher said that despite all of the people travelling together in close quarters, everyone is still friends and expects to remain so after the mission wraps up this evening. Up above however, and at close quarters, they afford the clamberer a surprising number of secret joys. One can love one's neighbours in the abstract, or even at a distance, but at close quarters it's almost impossible. With any large number of people being in close quarters there was a constant threat of disease. No one escaped diseases as the close quarters infected everyone including the crew. On little islands, at close quarters, being outspoken draws attention. When Bibiana Steinhaus was at the recent G8 summit in her capacity as a policewoman, she took the opportunity to observe Angela Merkel at close quarters. Zsuzsanna Szelényi, a liberal left MP and psychologist who has studied Orbán at close quarters as a colleague in the 1990s, describes him as restless and combative with leanings towards megalomania. From this superb vantage point, you can see at close quarters the likes of Bewick's swans who have flown in all the way from Russia. Good manners are everything in close quarters. Finally, he does not dislike close quarters. These are catacomb-like performance spaces underneath Waterloo Station, and they exhale a suffocating clamminess that felt just right for O'Neill's portraits of stir-crazy sailors, trapped in close quarters in ships. Observing Kennedy at close quarters did not help to solve the mystery. At close quarters, it is a muffled cough, while at long distances it is sharper. Show More Sentences Pierre Delaunay was subsequently appointed secretary of the European Nations' Cup Organising Committee, and was therefore able to observe at close quarters the blossoming of the competition that his father had wanted. After a short breather at Chatzensee, crossing Zurich will give anyone a good shake up with the exhilarating spirit of the economic metropolis experienced at close quarters. The DNS BE organisation has come to rely on an enthusiastic Board of Directors, which has monitored the innovative policy of DNS BE at close quarters, with a great sense of responsibility and with no personal interest. Clearly, the close quarters necessitate interesting adjustments. About two cable lengths upstream of buoy S74, the bridge watches on both vessels noticed the masthead light of the other vessel at close quarters on the port bow. Such visits are of immense value, as they allow OFID to experience its operations at close quarters and to talk directly with country officials and executing agencies on site. We will continue to follow the proceedings at close quarters for, if no solution is found, we will unfortunately need to act at European level, which I do not consider to be desirable. White witnessed the success of Hiss's campaign at close quarters. There would be fighting at close quarters. Seeing him at close quarters, you marvel every day. The lorries at Obajana seem huge at close quarters. First of all, because the Japanese live in very close quarters, more often than not a single room, and at the time of the study a poorly ventilated one. In college residences and dormitories, large numbers of people live in close quarters and are at a higher risk of becoming infected with meningococcal disease than students who live off campus. With hundreds of thousands of quake survivors living at very close quarters in makeshift settlements, children are at risk of contracting life-threatening illnesses. With a sword and shield he could have let his enemies come to very close quarters with perfect impunity to himself and then have run them through with infinite ease. England can then be blockaded from Western France at close quarters by the Air Force, while the Navy with its submarines extend the range of the blockade. Indeed, when in close quarters to Rooney, it must prove almost irresistible to stick a plastic moustache and silly clownish shoes on the potato-headed fool. The Romans, with a clear advantage in armour, weapons, and discipline, had a decisive advantage in the close quarters fighting against the tightly packed Britons. Stephen, that is when the accosting figure came to close quarters, though he was not in an over sober state himself recognised Corley's breath redolent of rotten cornjuice. Examples from Classical Literature I would give anything to have known Vidocq and Cartouche and rocambole, and to have seen them at close quarters. The pilum was sometimes used at close quarters, but more commonly it was thrown. It had been fired at random, altogether, more like a signal for coming to close quarters. Poverty and showiness, supreme beauty and grotesque ugliness, jostle each other at close quarters. My husband, who went for a climb, came to pretty close quarters with a striped hyena. The Spanish ships, if higher and of greater size, and therefore dangerous at close quarters, were unwieldy and undermanned. It will, nevertheless, interest me to see him at close quarters. At last he was going to see Caleb Barter again at close quarters. It was an excellent weapon, better at close quarters than my claymore. At close quarters one observed a cast in Mr. carder's right eye. It was the dead silence of our long gaze at such close quarters that gave the whole horror, huge as it was, its only note of the unnatural. Before there was time for another shot they were at close quarters. The dislike of the wolf for close quarters was his to an unusual degree. Don Quixote merely observed him steadily, longing for him to leap from the cart and come to close quarters with him, when he hoped to hew him in pieces. Find more words! 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