6 sentences with 'closest'
Example sentences and phrases with the word closest and other words derived from it.
• « Joan Bugas, the widow of John Bugas, a man who became Henry II's closest confidant within the firm, recalls those nights in the 1970s when her husband and Henry II would meet until the wee hours of the morning to reminisce about the old days and the battles with Harry Bennett: two comrades in arms who in retrospect, more than a quarter of a century later, relived the excitement, the risk, the danger. »
• « The reason sex is so intense is that it is the way we come closest to total union with another being. »
• « The closest Rome came to defeating the Persians was under Trajan when he managed to conquer Armenia and parts of Mesopotamia, but after his death Rome quickly abandoned those territories. »
• « The main source of information about the life of Jesus is the four Gospels, accounts of his life and teachings composed after his death by three of his apostles (his closest followers and students), Matthew, Mark and John, and another early Christian leader, Luke. »
• « In its first century, the areas of Europe that benefited most from the Industrial Revolution were those closest to coal. »