close range
Example Sentences
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Leicester were made to pay for their profligacy when George McGuigan's pick-and-go enabled him to drive over from close range to help pull the deficit back to five points.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
The frigate had fired "two flares towards the helicopter. One of the flares passed at close range to the helicopter," it added.
From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026
The maneuver also gave the spacecraft a rare chance to observe Deimos from close range.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 2026
Bold Coast Charter’s trips allow participants to land on an island and spend a couple of hours in blinds to see and photograph at close range puffins gathered on rocks above their nesting burrows.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
They could only shoot accurately from close range, and in order not to waste arrows they would swoop down, fire at the lowest part of their dive, and turn upward at once.
From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman
