What is "close calls"

Usage examples of "close calls".

There are some close calls and one morning Hannah is hit by a chunk of ice in the chest, bruising her badly.

After all the close calls, this might be the last one, and Jenrette was struggling.

He had had three close calls with bears, the last of which had found him wishing for a gun as a seven-hundred-pound black bear threw himself against the camper and tore pieces of trim and the spare tire off the rear door.

Samir embraced Newman-with whom he'd had so many close calls in just two days.

I'd had close calls before that could have sent me spinning off into eternity.

The big black hoodlum had vocalized Cazaux's own fear--this time, after so many close calls and so much death, the authorities might want Henri Cazaux out of the way for good.