How to Use up close in a Sentence

up close

adverb or adjective
  • Schultze has seen that up close.
    — Matt Le Cren, Chicago Tribune, 12 Aug. 2025
  • Paul has watched that shift up close.
    — Preston Fore, Fortune, 17 Jan. 2026
  • Want to see the full moon up close?
    — Anthony Wood, Space.com, 1 May 2026
  • Want to see the full moon up close?
    — Anthony Wood, Space.com, 9 Dec. 2025
  • This is what love looks like up close.
    — Ashlyn Robinette, PEOPLE, 8 May 2026
  • But to look at it up close is a treat.
    — Ashley Fetters Maloy, Washington Post, 16 June 2026
  • Want to see Jupiter and the moon up close?
    — Anthony Wood, Space.com, 30 Jan. 2026
  • Want to catch a glimpse of Jupiter up close?
    — Anthony Wood, Space.com, 9 Jan. 2026
  • Denver fans saw it up close last year.
    — Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 6 Feb. 2026
  • To meet them, to hear from them, and to see their fight up close.
    — Samantha Barry, Glamour, 13 Dec. 2023
  • The moon up close — and a solar eclipse, too!
    — Mike Wall, Space.com, 11 Apr. 2026
  • Want to see the full Beaver Moon up close?
    — Anthony Wood, Space.com, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Zoom in on an object to see it up close and learn more about it.
    — Dana Holmes, CNN Underscored, 18 Aug. 2020
  • Nakase has seen Jackson up close.
    — Nathan Canilao, Mercury News, 18 Apr. 2026
  • The Broncos saw that up close a year ago.
    — Parker Gabriel, Denver Post, 2 Dec. 2025
  • They can be heard from miles away, but have rarely been witnessed up close.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 29 June 2021
  • The mangrove is a tree who grows up close to the ocean and our creek(s) here.
    — Maggie Andresen, Scientific American, 17 Dec. 2021
  • Jimmy held them up close to her face and spat into them.
    — Literary Hub, 7 Oct. 2025
  • To see her up close in that way and be able to study that is the greatest gift.
    — Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 22 Feb. 2023
  • People who had seen death up close kept their distance.
    — Caleb Crain, Harpers Magazine, 24 Mar. 2026
  • Photos show the colony from afar and one spider up close.
    — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Holzberg knows illness up close, not just from his own cancer.
    — Hanna Kang, Oc Register, 21 Aug. 2025
  • The mission is the first to study a metal-rich space rock up close.
    — Denise Chow, NBC News, 13 Oct. 2023
  • At low tide, visitors can walk right up to see the gate up close.
    — Lauren Schuster, Charlotte Observer, 23 Apr. 2026
  • See the gripping portrait up close here.
    — Kyler Alvord, PEOPLE, 19 June 2026
  • Far-out sounds, up close and personal.
    — John Wenzel, Denver Post, 5 Feb. 2026
  • Want to see the clue-white stars of the Pleiades and the craters of the moon up close?
    — Anthony Wood, Space.com, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Part of the fun of a car show is getting a chance to see rare machines up close.
    — Elana Scherr, Car and Driver, 9 Aug. 2020
  • The rise in oil prices has already sent prices at the pump up close to 10%.
    — ABC News, 4 Mar. 2026
  • The rise in oil prices has already sent prices at the pump up close to 10%.
    — Elaine Kurtenbach, Chicago Tribune, 5 Mar. 2026

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