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How to use closely in a sentence

40 example sentences · adverb

Closely means in a close manner. Example: “Finnish and Estonian are closely related languages.”

Examples of closely by meaning

adverbIn a close manner.

  • Finnish and Estonian are closely related languages.
  • The borderline between East and West Berlin was very closely guarded.
  • The chairs are too closely spaced; could you move them apart?

More sentences with closely

  • She placed the workpiece on the bench, inspected it closely, and opened the cover.From the entry bench
  • Look, I'm going to explain what to do, so you have to listen closely.From the entry look
  • If you look closely you can see the repair in the paintwork.From the entry repair
  • There is some sign of disparate standards bodies becoming more closely aligned.From the entry standards
  • I watched him closely from the get-go because I did not trust him.From the entry from the get-go
  • I watched him closely from the word go because I did not trust him.From the entry from the word go
  • That company is closely held; its equity is all private equity.From the entry private equity
  • The development of homological algebra was closely intertwined with the emergence of category theory.From the entry homological algebra
  • I work closely with my Canadian counterparts.From the entry work
  • The fight for survival knitted the men closely together.From the entry knit
  • The dogfighter fought closely with his opposite.From the entry opposite
  • The Swedish diplomat worked closely with his opposite from Denmark.From the entry opposite
  • Electric and magnetic forces are closely related.From the entry related
  • Customs officers look closely through a stuffed suitcase.From the entry stuffed
  • If you look closely, you can see that this whole patio is pitched at a quarter-inch to the foot.From the entry pitched
  • The plaintiff also stresses that the store as a whole, and the customer exits especially, were closely surveilled.From the entry surveil
  • Of the modern Balto-Slavic languages, Lithuanian is often regarded as the most conservative in morphology and phonology, followed closely by Latvian.From the entry Balto-Slavic
  • Social mobility is often closely bound up with socioeconomic status.From the entry bound up
  • Listen closely, we, the Gardanes, heard tell of the glory of the nation-kings, how those nobles performed deeds of valor!From the entry hear tell
  • This population of cells continues to codistribute closely with venous elements and remains excluded from a vascular regions in the developing wing bud.From the entry codistribute
  • A weakly-typed language will most possibly not generate an error or refuse to compile, if the argument passed to a function does not match the expected type closely.From the entry weakly-typed
  • The battle to be the absolute worst Trump henchman can feel so closely fought.2026 April 17, Marina Hyde, “Is the pope Catholic? JD Vance thinks he has an answer”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry henchman
  • It has become the unexamined modifier that everyone uses and nobody examines closely.2026 May 9, Hollis Robbins, “What does the "higher" in higher ed mean? AI is forcing the question”, in Anecdotal Value [Substack newsletter]. From the entry higher education
  • “We agreed to work together, very closely, including visiting each other’s Nations.2025 February 12, Kaitlan Collins and Kevin Liptak, “After Putin call, Trump says negotiations to end Ukraine war will start…. From the entry president
  • "We worked very closely with Southeastern to lobby government and stakeholders to increase the timetable.2024 January 24, Dyan Perry talks to Nick Brodrick, “The industry has given me so much”, in RAIL, number 1001, page 45. From the entry lobby
  • Mr Kushner worked closely with Saudi Arabia on a number of issues during the Trump administration.2024 February 14, Bernd Debusmann Jr, “Jared Kushner defends controversial $2bn Saudi investment”, in BBC. From the entry Kushner
  • When first introduced, batch mode execution was closely integrated with the columnstore storage format.2024, Pedro Lopes, Pam Lahoud, Learn T-SQL Querying: A guide to developing efficient and elegant T-SQL code, 2 edition, Packt Publishing…. From the entry columnstore
  • Powell often speaks at a closely watched Fed conference in Jackson Hole, Wyo., late in the month.2023 July 26, Jeanna Smialek, “Fed Raises Rates After a Pause and Leaves Door Open to More”, in The New York Times. From the entry Jackson Hole
  • It works, if one does not question the birds too closely.2023, Donna Haraway, “Revisiting Catland in 2019: Situating Denizens of the Chthulucene”, in Cynthia Huff, Margaretta Jolly, editors…. From the entry Trumplandia
  • Yes, I’m veering closely into “old man yells at clouds” territory, though that’s the point.2023 April 12, Matthew Byrd, “Resident Evil 4’s Microtransactions Ruin One of the Remake’s Best Features”, in Den of Geek, archived from…. From the entry old man yells at clouds
  • I have to agree with the others and say they are different but are VERY closely tied.2021 May 30, u/squify69, Reddit, r/Aeromorph. From the entry aeromorph
  • Engineers will be closely checking the bridge for damage beyond the obvious smashed parapets.2020 August 26, “Mid-September before line reopens, says Network Rail”, in Rail, page 11. From the entry parapet
  • Beyond type safety, OCaml has several features that closely interact with the garbage collector.2020, KC Sivaramakrishnan et al., Retrofitting Parallelism onto OCaml. From the entry ephemeron
  • It’s a good look for Facebook—as long as no one looks too closely.2020, Siva Vaidhyanathan, “Facebook and the Folly of Self-Regulation”, in Wired. From the entry a good look
  • Significantly, the aural-oral data does not map closely to the visual linguistic landscape at NIE.2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual…. From the entry map
  • Shadow stocks are common stocks of smaller companies that are not closely followed by Wall Street analysts.2017, David R. Anderson, Modern Business Statistics with Microsoft Office Excel, page 33. From the entry shadow stock
  • Malik Ambar made it his business to watch Chengiz closely as he managed his role as peshwa.2016, Sunil Khilnani, Incarnations, Penguin, published 2017, page 127. From the entry peshwa

Meaning of closely

  1. adverb In a close manner.
  2. adverb Secretly; privately.

Full definition of closely

Questions about closely in a sentence

How do you use closely in a sentence?
Closely is used as an adverb. For example: “Finnish and Estonian are closely related languages.”
What is a short sentence with closely?
“Electric and magnetic forces are closely related.”
What does closely mean?
Closely means in a close manner.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: closely (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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