How to Use closer in a Sentence

closer

noun

• It’s been a weird year for some of the league’s best closers.
  — Ken Rosenthal, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2025
• The two-time All-Star remains one of the best closers in the game.
  — Jim Bowden, New York Times, 21 May 2025
• He’s been arguably the best or one of the two best closers in the game the last four years.
  — Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 28 Apr. 2025
• The horses near the front were setting it up for the closers.
  — Dick Jerardi, Philly.com, 6 May 2018
• As the lengthy trial winds down, Davis and Green are the closers for the defense.
  — Craig R. McCoy, Philly.com, 26 Mar. 2018
• Titmus, one of the best closers in the sport, left little room to breathe.
  — C.j. Holmes, New York Daily News, 4 Aug. 2024
• Closers just bring out the worst emotions in most fans.
  — Terry Pluto, cleveland.com, 27 May 2017
• On the back end, the A’s have one of baseball’s best closers in Mason Miller.
  — Chris Biderman, Sacbee.com, 28 Mar. 2025
• The Reds nearly came back against one of the best closers in baseball.
  — Charlie Goldsmith, The Enquirer, 24 May 2023
• The Kings had closers, while the Warriors’ closer got double- and triple-teamed.
  — Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 23 Jan. 2025
• Williams has been one of the best closers in baseball over the last few seasons.
  — Zach Pressnell, Newsweek, 13 Dec. 2024
• Will Smith: Last-place teams don’t have much use for All-Star closers.
  — John Shea, SFChronicle.com, 13 July 2019
• One, the Padres have a knack for producing ace closers out of scratch.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 June 2019
• Lows reach the 50s in many suburbs while hanging closer to 60 in the city.
  — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 27 May 2017
• So there are guys are getting paid $200 million to be the closers.
  — Sportsday Staff, Dallas News, 21 Apr. 2023
• One of baseball’s best closers, Josh Hader, was on the mound.
  — Louisa Thomas, New Yorker, 5 May 2025
• The time spent doing this brought her closer to the patient.
  — Lucette Lagnado, WSJ, 11 Aug. 2018
• While Scott will be a free agent at the end of the year, the market for closers has not been cheap in recent days.
  — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 29 July 2024
• But how does Jansen compare to the other closers who could be in the playoffs?
  — Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2019
• With the extra length, the race would seem made for late closers, but that's usually not the case.
  — Mark Inabinett | [e-mail], al.com, 8 June 2019
• The saving grace had lately been that if Texas could get to one of its closers, things were safe.
  — Shawn McFarland, Dallas News, 28 Aug. 2023
• From Yankees catcher Gary Sanchez to a host of closers, this past week has been a rough one.
  — Usa Today Sports, USA TODAY, 24 June 2018
• Like a good salesman, though, the Toreros proved to be fantastic closers.
  — Don Norcross, sandiegouniontribune.com, 2 Sep. 2017
• Sasaki only pitched four seasons in the big leagues, but was one of the game’s most feared closers in three of them.
  — Si.com Staff, SI.com, 7 May 2018
• Any one of those closers winning would not surprise me.
  — Brian Hamilton, NBC news, 1 May 2025
• All elite closers can strike you out, and Knebel certainly fits that bill.
  — Tom Haudricourt, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 27 Mar. 2018
• No one expects that from one of the game's most dominant closers.
  — Bob Baum, Houston Chronicle, 3 Apr. 2018
• One of those is closer Robert Suarez, who has been one of the best closers in baseball this season.
  — Drew Vonscio, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 May 2025
• Did the digested food in the victim’s stomach put the time of death closer to 2 a.m. than 10 p.m.?
  — Vibhuti Agarwal, WSJ, 31 July 2017
• Few teams have as deep a bullpen as LSU does, and fewer have three power-arm closers.
  — Brody Miller, nola.com, 7 June 2019