"close" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- But that meant Temeraire was now undermanned, and they were vulnerable to boarding themselves: they could not risk another close engagement.
- It requires close engagement with the immediate environment.
- The function of the floating weight is to automatically keep the stylus in close engagement with the record, thus insuring accuracy of reproduction.
- It was the last close engagement of British and foreign troops in Great Britain.
- The British admiral endeavoured to force on a close engagement.
- Eliot had a fine notion of close engagement, observed Jack to himself.
- The actual close engagement lasted 35 minutes before Tribune struck.
- On the other hand, in a close engagement the leeward ship often could not see her opponent through the enormous clouds of smoke.
- The close engagement lasted only four seconds, and of all who watched it perhaps only Willie Garvin could have detailed the moves later.
- It was the last close engagement of British and foreign troops on mainland British soil.
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