How to Use close-in in a Sentence

close-in

adjective

• Some folks had been happy with their small, close-in apartments but now worked remotely and wanted more space.
  — Bill Conerly, Forbes, 6 Mar. 2025
• The Bulwark is the tank of the party and focuses on close-in combat.
  — Gieson Cacho, Mercury News, 6 Apr. 2026
• The exception is the close-in Yellow zone, which runs along the east side of the stadium.
  — Jon Healey, Los Angeles Times, 25 Aug. 2023
• In the short term, these systems will be used to counter drones as well as rockets, mortars, and other close-in aerial threats.
  — New Atlas, 17 Jan. 2026
• Much of the movie’s three-hour running time is spent close-in on the faces of star Cillian Murphy and others.
  — Robert Strauss, Los Angeles Times, 2 Jan. 2024
• The close-in magnetic field squeezes on the equator of the Sun, forcing particles to eject out of the poles.
  — Paul Sutter, Ars Technica, 16 Apr. 2024
• Thus, any earthlike planet close-in to the star could actually be detected.
  — Bruce Dorminey, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2023
• Delta says the extra service at the close-in airport will drive down fares for visitors to the nation’s capital.
  — Wire Services, Dallas News, 18 July 2023
• In the 30th minute, Gil had a close-in right-footer blocked, then sent a 45-yarder off the top of the crossbar. Edwards, backup to Matt Turner and Petrovic the last two seasons, performed well in his fifth start of the season.
  — Frank Dell'apa, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Aug. 2023
• And Delta launches a nonstop to its Seattle hub from the close-in airport on March 9.
  — Edward Russell, Travel + Leisure, 1 Mar. 2025
• Boswell struggled from the field, missing close-in shots, and from the free throw line, making only 8 of 16 from the stripe in the first half.
  — Darren Lauber, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 Feb. 2025
• The sample is still shaped by the limits of current instruments, which favor large planets in close-in orbits, but that bias may soon ease.
  — Eliza Strickland, IEEE Spectrum, 28 Jan. 2026
• Again and again, Kornacki has shown us rural areas bathed in red on his map and urban or close-in suburbs that are firmly blue.
  — Jen Chaney, Vulture, 6 Nov. 2024
• Sidewalks and bike trails should receive the same priority as roads in our cities and close-in suburbs, instead of being afterthoughts.
  — The Editors, Scientific American, 1 Mar. 2024
• The close-in Washington suburbs are home to a handful of beautiful private clubs — all of them expensive.
  — Barry Svrluga, New York Times, 15 May 2026
• Add to that the close-in communications, collaboration and the sharing of ideas.
  — Joe McKendrick, Forbes, 24 Mar. 2025
• Participants and bystanders can read close-in aerial maneuvers and radar warnings in various ways.
  — Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 7 Oct. 2025
• At a handful of locations, these spikes extended out to nearly a meter, looking more like lances than anything needed to ward off a close-in attack.
  — ArsTechnica, 28 Aug. 2025
• An international team of researchers has created the most comprehensive look at flaring in a star with a close-in planet.
  — John Timmer, ArsTechnica, 25 June 2026
• In all but highly unusual circumstances, yields on long-term Treasuries far exceed those on close-in maturities.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 16 June 2023
• In the midst of a close-in struggle, an adrenalized person has tunnel vision and isn’t thinking of his opponent’s airway, even if they were trained in the Marines.
  — Brandon Del Pozo, New York Daily News, 15 Dec. 2024
• Like many small, rocky planets orbiting close-in around red dwarf stars like Trappist-1, this world is expected to be tidally locked just like the moon is to Earth.
  — Eric MacK, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2023
• Their study shows that while some planets are destroyed during the early post-main sequence phase, Earth is likely safer than the close-in giant planets examined.
  — Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 8 Nov. 2025
• Michigan is one of a handful of states that does not grant an 18-year-old a general close-in-age exemption for attempting to have sex with a 15-year-old.
  — Daniel Lachance, The Conversation, 21 Sep. 2026
• The current carrier relies on layered defenses, including surface-to-air missiles and close-in weapon systems.
  — Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 19 Mar. 2026
• For those looking for a more urban experience, North Beach or McGee Beach offers a close-in getaway.
  — Gabi De La Rosa, Southern Living, 28 July 2026
• Split-ticket test Democrats have spent years chipping away at Republican dominance in Atlanta’s close-in suburbs.
  — Adam Beam, AJC.com, 1 Sep. 2026
• Arriving early gives you a better chance of snagging a spot in a close-in lot, such as Lower South Lot 1, where tailgaters congregate.
  — John Wenzel, Denver Post, 23 Mar. 2026
• Larkspur Capital has a track record of building apartments and townhomes in several close-in Dallas neighborhoods.
  — Steve Brown, Dallas News, 2 May 2023
• The surprise came in the Midwest and Sunbelt, which saw a massive jump in exclusive zip codes — found in their urban centers, close-in suburbs, and fringe exurbs — in just a few years.
  — Mark Dent, thehustle.co, 18 Oct. 2024