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bearing down

VERB

close in on

Synonyms

WEAK

advance on approach converge on near press weigh down

Example Sentences

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When Harry Kane, Michael Olise and Luis Diaz are bearing down on goal, there is usually only one outcome.

From BBC • May 6, 2026

With the forward bearing down on goal in the dying stages, Young cynically hacked him down on the edge of the area, preventing a near-certain goal.

From BBC • Nov. 1, 2025

Chris Heinrich will never forget the winter day he and his family evacuated their home in Altadena, California, as a vertical wall of flame was slowly bearing down on their neighborhood from the mountains.

From Slate • Jul. 25, 2025

Time is not bearing down on Alfie in quite the same way, but Mahaffy makes us believe that the character is running out of hope.

From Los Angeles Times • May 21, 2025

Exhausted, many sleep so soundly they do not hear the trains bearing down on them: the earsplitting horn, the screaming brakes.

From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario