What is "closes"

Usage examples of "closes".

After the midpoint is reached, the surface outline of the rock shrinks as more of it disappears, until the paint closes over the last of it and the rock has gone.

If a thing has not completed its transfer before the gate closes -- perhaps because it moves too slowly -- the part that has not gone through is left on the entry side with the rest on the exit side.

When this crack closes no smoke can reach them, and if we hasten to extinguish the flames I believe they will be safe.

So it shall be until the Great Recorder sums me up and closes my ledger account with a balance to profit or loss.

After putting everything in order, she closes the door because the wind is high, and in her anxiety not to lose one word of what I have to say, she entreats artlessly a little place near me.

Millennial Fizzy with stereo headphones on, and he hurriedly puts out his cigarette when Gately enters and closes the little drawer in the bedside table where Foss keeps his ashtray just like everybody else.

Gately as he appears in the street, even as he closes in it takes a while for the scene to decoct out of the fog of his breath and its shifting spears of color against the headlights.

With a deep breath, the white wizard closes the front door before he walks to the single closet in the cottage where he extracts a willow broom.

Heldra closes the outside door, and then leads the way to the black oak door to the old Council chamber.

Maris steps into the Council Room, glances around to see no one besides the other two Council members are there, and closes the door behind him.