How to Use come close in a Sentence

come close

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• Ticked off doesn’t even come close.
  — Ticked Off, The Orlando Sentinel, 15 Aug. 2025
• The 17-year-old has come close.
  — Simon Johnson, New York Times, 1 Apr. 2026
• Few artists have come close to breaking the record.
  — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 8 Oct. 2025
• The missiles launched didn't even come close.
  — CBS News, 1 Mar. 2026
• Let’s look at recent teams that have come close.
  — Zach Powell, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2026
• For some, Black Ops 6 might’ve come close.
  — Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 7 Oct. 2025
• But the district hasn’t come close to that point in at least the past decade.
  — Silas Allen, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 Jan. 2025
• Most of the other seven did not come close.
  — Stewart Mandel, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
• This isn’t the first time its use has come close to expiring.
  — Rebecca Santana, Chicago Tribune, 9 May 2023
• Through it all, nobody has come close to beating her.
  — Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 9 Jan. 2026
• But nobody on the team is on pace to even come close this season.
  — Sean McIndoe, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2026
• So far, that type of move hasn't come close to happening.
  — Mark Kern, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Oct. 2025
• Gunton said many others have come close.
  — Madisen Keavy, CBS News, 5 Apr. 2026
• My week of driving didn’t even come close to 200 miles per charge.
  — New Atlas, 7 Sep. 2025
• But the Valkyries made sure New York wouldn’t even come close.
  — Nathan Canilao, Mercury News, 29 June 2026
• The Griffins then took a shot from half court that didn’t come close as time expired.
  — Lou Ponsi, Oc Register, 6 Jan. 2026
• How many stadiums have come close to filling all of their seats?
  — Will Jeanes, New York Times, 28 June 2025
• Some of the flames come close to licking the glass, as the wildfire blows across the tracks.
  — Frank Landymore, Futurism, 15 July 2026
• None has come close to matching Uthmeier’s war chest.
  — Dan Sullivan, Miami Herald, 19 Feb. 2026
• But earning riches from her songs doesn't come close to owning them.
  — Rebecca Aizin, People.com, 14 Aug. 2025
• To describe this as one of the biggest honours of my life does not even come close.
  — George Caulkin, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2025
• As a result, projecting which clubs will come close to peak form isn’t easy.
  — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 June 2025
• Very few historical epics come close to the scale and, well, heart of this film.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 11 July 2026
• But unlike last year’s Buffs, those turnovers didn’t even come close to sinking them.
  — Matt Schubert, The Denver Post, 19 Oct. 2024
• Take a look at Carlos, the last player to come close to doing so.
  — Zak Garner-Purkis, Forbes, 27 Oct. 2024
• No one in major-league history has come close to putting up such numbers.
  — Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 6 May 2024
• No one in Hawks history has come close to his record 28 hat tricks.
  — Phil Thompson, Hartford Courant, 30 Jan. 2023
• But none have come close to Trump’s unvarnished quid pro quo on spending.
  — Alexander Smith, NBC News, 23 Feb. 2024
• The worry now is whether 2026 can come close to matching it.
  — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 26 Mar. 2026
• The reality is, most films don’t come close to those numbers.
  — Chris Dobstaff, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2025