be close

Synonyms

loom impend

Antonyms

move back keep out back off stand back keep back keep away
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Examples

Profound desire, true desire is the desire to be close to someone. Paulo Coelho

Men and women can never be close. They can hardly speak to one another in the same language. But are compelled, forever, to try, and therefore even in defeat there is no peace. Margaret Drabble

More than anything, all I have ever wanted is to be close to someone. More than anything, all I have ever wanted is to feel as if I wasn't alone. James Frey

My dream is to live a good life and be loving, be close to God and be a good human being and bring peace to people. Ziggy Marley

If a hero must have an unmarked grave, it should at least be close to where his comrades fell." "Comrades?" "One way or another we all fight for the things we believe in. Doesn't that give us some common ground? Tom Clancy

Hard to sit here and be close to you, and not kiss you. F. Scott Fitzgerald

Words in the phrase

be close

Close letter words and terms

be clearly stated be clever be clever-clever be close at hand be close to be close-lipped