Examples of close call in a Sentence
We nearly didn't get out of the burning building. It was a pretty close call, let me tell you!
the doctor said I'd had a close call, and was lucky to be alive
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The incident is one of many close calls, go-around and aviation accidents that has prompted calls for changes to air travel in the US and heightened public anxiety around flying.
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Alexandra Skores, CNN Money, 19 May 2025
Eventually, after a few close calls, tragedy strikes.
—Malcolm Forbes, Boston Herald, 15 May 2025
That close call came shortly after the Army resumed helicopter flights around Reagan, which were suspended following the midair collision between an American Airlines flight and an Army helicopter that killed 67 people in January.
—Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 14 May 2025
Furthermore, these cosmic close calls might be best understood using concepts derived from string theory—a notional theory of everything that posits that all of nature is fundamentally composed of countless, wriggling subatomic strings.
—Ramin Skibba, Scientific American, 13 May 2025
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Alexandra Skores, CNN Money, 19 May 2025
Eventually, after a few close calls, tragedy strikes.
—Malcolm Forbes, Boston Herald, 15 May 2025
That close call came shortly after the Army resumed helicopter flights around Reagan, which were suspended following the midair collision between an American Airlines flight and an Army helicopter that killed 67 people in January.
—Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 14 May 2025
Furthermore, these cosmic close calls might be best understood using concepts derived from string theory—a notional theory of everything that posits that all of nature is fundamentally composed of countless, wriggling subatomic strings.
—Ramin Skibba, Scientific American, 13 May 2025
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“Close call.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/close%20call. Accessed 3 Jun. 2025.
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