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Example Sentences

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While the densely packed pilgrims from all across the Orient press close, torchbearers and musicians swirl round a procession of painted elephants.

From Time Magazine Archive

He believes they can safeguard vital sea-lanes during peacetime and could press close to Soviet shores in the early hours of a full-scale conventional war with the Soviet Union.

From Time Magazine Archive

People are clustering ten deep around it, waiting for a turn to press close to the glass that protects it.

From "You Bring the Distant Near" by Mitali Perkins

Other guards press close and Officer Bomini up in the tower trains his Thompson on Mrs. Capone.

From "Al Capone Does My Shirts" by Gennifer Choldenko

Part of our cavalry was ordered to the south side of the French Broad, and General Martin was ordered to press close on the enemy’s rear with the balance of his force.

From From Manassas to Appomattox Memoirs of The Civil War in America by Longstreet, James