"close" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The huge complex gradually closed down over a period of many years.
- In 1960, the city council decided to gradually close the tramway.
- Q. I have two doors in my house that seem to gradually close by themselves and will not stay fully open.
- When the mines were gradually closed down, the rail service stopped and the company left the area.
- Services were gradually closed down between 1965 and 1977.
- The plants gradually closed in on the old road.
- In the meantime the public schools of antiquity were gradually closed.
- She fell into so deep a revery that her eyes gradually closed.
- The long, warm evening had been gradually closing in, and by this time it was almost twilight.
- Was it thought that gradually closed her eyes again?
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