How to Use close quarters in a Sentence

close quarters

plural noun
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  • Nobody knows how likely that will be once adults begin working in close quarters in school buildings again.
    — Erin Richards, USA TODAY, 9 July 2020
  • But for many city dwellers or those living in close quarters, there's simply no room for an outdoor barbecue.
    — Isabelle Kagan, USA TODAY, 13 Aug. 2020
  • Inside prison and jails, the pandemic couldn't feel more palpable as detainees were forced to live, work and eat in close quarters.
    — Nicole Chavez, CNN, 10 July 2020
  • The jump in pediatric cases comes as children are entering close quarters for the first time in months as some schools open their doors to students again.
    — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 11 Aug. 2020
  • Data also indicate that some child-to-adult transmission cases tend to be in homes where people are in close quarters.
    — Annie Vainshtein, SFChronicle.com, 4 Aug. 2020
  • Next came seasonal workers living in close quarters in temporary housing.
    — Gregory Scruggs, Washington Post, 9 July 2020
  • Nursing homes, where vulnerable at-risk people live in close quarters, have been coronavirus hot spots throughout the pandemic.
    — Anna Bauman, SFChronicle.com, 10 July 2020
  • To space out fidgety kindergarteners, Kylie Schipper is eschewing group desks, which would place students in close quarters in little pods of six.
    — Lacey Russell, Madeleine Stix, CNN, 14 Aug. 2020
  • Unfortunately, the close quarters of cruise ships can make the vessels good environments for spreading a variety of ailments.
    — Scott Laird, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 Mar. 2024
  • Wisconsinites will now be required to wear masks while indoors or in close quarters with other people in public, thanks to an order from Gov. Tony Evers.
    — Laura Schulte, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 31 July 2020
  • That includes people who work in health care and have symptoms, people who are in the hospital or need to go to the hospital, or people who live in close quarters with other vulnerable adults, like nursing homes.
    — Katherine Ellen Foley, Quartz, 31 July 2020
  • Advocates said the state had not acted quickly enough to contain the spread of the new coronavirus in places where close quarters and bunk-style dormitories make social distancing next to impossible.
    — Helen Wieffering, The Arizona Republic, 6 Aug. 2020
  • Casinos are perhaps one of the most vulnerable places to be during the pandemic: On a typical day, people mill about in close quarters in windowless, indoor spaces.
    — Lucinda Shen, Fortune, 11 Aug. 2020
  • Scump had to retreat to the bomb site and play in close quarters.
    — Dallas News, 29 May 2022
  • Many parents have been in close quarters with their kids for the past year and a half.
    — Julie Jargon, WSJ, 14 Aug. 2021
  • On top of the close quarters, keep in mind that a duplex means twice the amount of upkeep.
    — Kristine Gill, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Sep. 2022
  • The set was designed to suggest the close quarters of a discotheque.
    — Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2021
  • Some feared coughing in close quarters; others couldn’t make the rent.
    — Megan Ditrolio, Marie Claire, 20 Apr. 2021
  • Many abusers and victims are in close quarters, day and night, during Covid-19.
    — Laken Brooks, Forbes, 13 Oct. 2021
  • Both were stuck in their Richmond rental working in close quarters 40 hours a week.
    — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Aug. 2020
  • His workshop is full of elves making toys in close quarters.
    — Washington Post, 9 Dec. 2020
  • Michael said the hardest part of the journey was being in such close quarters with each other for so long.
    — Maddie Browning, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Sep. 2023
  • The new bullpup shotgun, a pump action gun with a sleek finish, is designed for close quarters.
    — Andrew Brinker, BostonGlobe.com, 30 July 2022
  • It was sidelined in Guam but sailors were still living in close quarters on board as the virus spread unabated.
    — Andrew Dyer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Feb. 2022
  • But can their friendship survive in such close quarters?
    — Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 13 Jan. 2023
  • School, sports, after-school clubs, and the bustling cafeteria put teens in close quarters with each other.
    — Cindy Krischer Goodman, sun-sentinel.com, 28 Aug. 2021
  • As the number of people living in close quarters grew, pits no longer sufficed.
    — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New York Review of Books, 9 Feb. 2022
  • Many are concerned with people locked in close quarters for such a long period of time.
    — Tribune News Service, oregonlive, 16 Sep. 2020
  • Playing in close quarters on a venue stage, the U.K. group offered a high-energy rendition of the song.
    — Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 15 Apr. 2022
  • The inferno was exacerbated by the camp’s close quarters and shoddy construction.
    — Suzy Hansen, The Atlantic, 13 Feb. 2024

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