nearest approach

But he was the nearest approach to it I'd ever met.

Could he hope to hold them away from the nearest approach to the capital?

I rather like these rough services, for they are the nearest approach to Church we can get out here.

At its nearest approach, it is 4351 million kilometres or four light hours from Earth.

They and the like are the nearest approach to legislation possible in the present state of international relations.

It was his nearest approach to a prayer since childhood.

A small boy is the nearest approach possible to the feminine ideal.

That had been his nearest approach to success through conformity.

Sedna is now making its nearest approach to the Sun.

This from Larry, with the nearest approach to awe that he had yet shown.

This was the nearest approach Henchard could make to the full truth.

They took no papers, and the nearest approach to a book in the house was an almanac three years old.

Somewhere in this building was its owner, the man who had made him feel his nearest approach to hatred.

This is our nearest approach to nectar, and they seem to recognise it.

The nearest approach to it appears to have been seen at Margate.

A fiery orange-red is the nearest approach to this colour possible.

Nevertheless, it was the nearest approach to a foreign ministry which the country had as yet possessed.

At its nearest approach, it is slightly less than sixty-five million kilometers from Earth.

The nearest approach to it was a cigar store.

In short, it was intelligent and conscious: machine's nearest approach to humanity.

Von Buch's is the nearest approach to such discussion known to me.

A few hours before the asteroid's nearest approach in 2011, it appeared close to the Sun, so observations were possible for only a brief period.

It was the nearest approach to a human being in the wonderful things it could do of any machine I have ever known.

Saxon Court stood on a small rise; the nearest approach to a hill m this part of the county.

Then, with the dry chuckle which was his nearest approach to a laugh, he tossed it over to me.