Synonym: nearest, nighest. Similar words: close, closet, closer, close up, closely, close in, close down, disclose. Meaning: [kləʊs] adv. (superlative of `near' or `close') within the shortest distance.
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31. With the team's closest rivals out of the championship, the title was theirs for the taking.
32. The governor's closest advisors quietly believe the election is in the bag.
33. He was once regarded as one of Mr Brown's closest political advisers.
34. Even his closest allies describe him as forceful, aggressive and determined.
35. This win gives the team a two-point lead over their closest rival.
36. He managed to hold a lead of two seconds over his closest rival.
37. Australia is the closest we have to a classless society.
38. After dogs, the horse has had the closest relationship with man.
39. Unhappy young people will often strike out at the people closest to them.
40. The 'Gymnasium' is the closest equivalent to the grammar school in England.
41. As a little girl, Karan was closest to her sister Gail.
42. If you need to buy bread or milk, the closest shop is about a mile away.
43. Cley's closest acquaintance was Councillor Deems.
44. He was the closest thing to underage.
45. Your closest collaborator is left out in the cold.
46. Even our closest relatives, the chimpanzees, are guilty.
47. Only the family and closest friends were admitted.
48. Carriage driving is the closest thing to riding.
49. His own closest friends looked embarrassed and avoided him.
50. As with the first beams, they were landing on the side of the bullseye closest to the rear of the craft.
51. Fuschl is the closest of all our resorts to Salzburg, which is easily reached by a regular bus service.
52. The closest thing to it in Beavis and Butthead is Tom Anderson[sentencedict .com], the old guy.
53. He could hardly adapt the style of the building's closest neighbour, the Soviet-like Novotel Hotel.
54. Kissinger said it was disgraceful that the United States had turned its back on one of her oldest and closest friends.
55. It was the closest he could come to religion: this sense of something in the backyard at night.
56. Verio currently operates nearly three times as many business Web sites as its closest competitor.
57. My six closest friends in the world all became close friends at Harvard Business School.
58. He has been one of Diana's closest confidants during the difficult years of her rocky marriage.
59. Monkey business A legal case in Los Angeles County may have far-reaching implications for the rights of our closest non-human relatives.
60. And indeed, the closest competitor a creature is ever likely to meet is a member of its own species.