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Closes in sentence

108 examples of Closes in a sentence

And so if a society closes their back on one section, we've seen what happens.
Simonides, standing outside, the sole survivor amid the wreckage, closes his eyes and has this realization, which is that in his mind's eye, he can see where each of the guests at the banquet had been sitting.
It's not that that window closes; it doesn't.
And then the aperture closes, and we have to flush the pipes with toxins, or we have to dig them up.
He closes his eyes.
Each well of these plates has specific biochemistry that we assign, that is looking for a specific microRNA, acting like a trap that closes only when the microRNA is present in the sample, and when it does, it will shine with green color.
As the day closes, we can hear the rumble of wagons outside.
But we can't have a system that closes that data off, because it is too rich of a source of inspiration, innovation and discovery for new things in medicine.
Your favorite athlete closes in for a victorious win.
The coil then closes the hole.
Our device expands, places itself and closes the hole.
It opens and closes like a bread bin.
You’ve got just a minute to jump through the portal to save him before it closes and leaves him stranded in history.
And he takes me into this room, closes the door and says, "I have 75 children here in the orphanage, and it's total bedlam."
And he closes the door, and the whole room is now filled with smoke.
And the third thing is, it only opens then closes the traps a handful of times until that trap dies.
And immediately, the flytrap closes.
It's determining if there's a fly inside the trap, and then it closes.
In “A Good Man is Hard to Find,” she redeems an insufferable grandmother for forgiving a hardened criminal, even as he closes in on her family.
Kristen closes the patient by 8:15, with a junior resident looking over her shoulder.
Drawn to the pitcher’s vivid colors and alluring scent, the fly closes in and slurps its nectar.
The lid closes, it self-cleans.
It also is much more dynamic, so that you can see that the same form opens and closes in a very dynamic way as you move across it, because it has this quality of vector in motion built into it.
When I'm in the submersible and that hatch closes, I'm confident that I'm going to go down and come back up.
And it opens and closes the shutter so the amount of light coming out of the bottom, which is made by the bacterium, exactly matches how much light hits the squid's back, so the squid doesn't make a shadow.
The Khmer Rouge closes the doors to the outside world.
He closes it down for five months to experiment with a full kitchen staff.
Since 2007 every other month the city closes down the busiest streets for traffic and converts it into a playground for children and childhood.
Because when the door closes and there's nothing for you to do, you've actually just stepped into a Hammer film.
The sound is really annoying - a medicine cabinet closes with all the gusto of a gunshot going off in your ear, while at the same time the dialog is perhaps one-fifth as loud.
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