How To Use Close up In A Sentence

He adjusts the focus of the Carl Zeiss 120 mm macro lens, which allows him to work very close up.
Finding the swiftest pursuer close upon his heels, he threw off, first his blanket, then his silver-laced coat and belt of peag, by which his enemies knew him to be Canonchet, and redoubled the eagerness of pursuit. The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon
In other words, you can adjust the zoom and camera angle to be as far away or as close up as possible, and as upside down and round about as you like.
I got a hint from my mom in Japan to steam the frozen unagi in foil with sake in a frying pan for a bit 10 minish, then finish with pouring scolding hot water and close up the foil, to wash away the excess grease. Tuna Toast
When no one is left in Cuba to extract rents from, even the Castro "selectorate" may have no choice but to close up shop. The Economics and Philosophy of the Wall, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty

Now that I could see him close up, I saw that he was very attractive.
Close up, Carlile noticed the dark scummy shoreline and two car tires mired in the mud.
without my reading glasses I can hardly see things close up
That is, close up, shut up, or, as is said now, "bung up," -- emphatically, "We kept true time;" and the probability is, that in saying this, Sir Toby would accompany the words with the action of pushing an imaginary door; or _sneck up_. Notes and Queries, Number 29, May 18, 1850
Then he and Watts and the disappointed deputy doctor went off to bed, leaving "barkeep" to close up when the few loungers quit paying for drinks, and only in the common room was there further stir about the store. Tonio, Son of the Sierras A Story of the Apache War
Close up examination of the brain revealed improper differentiation, such as an enlarged forebrain, indistinct isthmic constriction at the midbrain-hindbrain boundary (mhb), and a malformed hindbrain ( PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
Close up – eye level – Ivy and August framed from the shoulders up. Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » CarsonArtist’s Review Forum
You should also use a sealing gun to close up cracks in floorboards, skirting boards and the like.
From what he had seen already, her arm had been covered with gashes, some more serious than others, close up he saw the dirt and blood scabbing.
Wak'st anights, or do thine eyelids close upon thy sleeping eyes? The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume IV
The night of, Renee takes a few generous swigs from the bottle and just when things are heating up on the couch, she starts coughing and hacking as her throat starts to close up. Desperate Housewives Episode Recap: "Witch's Lament"
A succession of quick laps saw him close up to the back of the front two, but he lost more time in traffic when he was blocked by a backmarker who had already let the leaders pass. PaddockTalk Racing News
He then ran off in search of a vehicle, while Irving and I stood close up, like a pair of male caryatides, under the very narrow protection of a hall-door ledge, and thought, at last, that we were quite forgotten by my patron. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 37, November, 1860
Thus the scapula, which is the pleurapophysis of the occipital vertebra, is vertical on its first appearance in the embryo of tetrapoda, and lies close up to the head Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
The next day, we grabbed a quick breakfast, a close up look at some deer hanging around the townsite (we had seen a mountain sheep the day before) and headed off on a boat tour down the lake.
Then being between hot and cold, take it into molds of deep hoops, bind them about with packthred, and being cold, take them out and put them into souce drink made of boil'd oatmeal ground or beaten, and bran boil'd in fair water; being cold, strain it thorow a cullender into the tub or earthen pot, put salt into it, and close up the vessel close from the air. The accomplisht cook or, The art & mystery of cookery
There were posters too for the festival, another part of the willing students’ project, and there was Marilyn, close up head shot with a bindi on her forehead.
Maintain a balance and respiration, lift thigh, and close up crura .
One of the biggest benefits for any rookie is the opportunity to study some of the world's best players close up.
These dots appear like perforations in a three-dimensional surface that, close up, seems to bulge and swell and recede.
Its guttery flare exposed a bed, with a thin mattress and a skimpy cover, shoved close up under the sloping wall; a sprained chair on its last legs; an old horsehide trunk; a shaky washstand of cheap yellow pine, garnished forth with an ewer and a basin; a limp, frayed towel; and a minute segment of pale pink soap. The Escape of Mr. Trimm His Plight and other Plights
Alternatively, some people use varifocal or bifocal lenses in order to see objects clearly that are both close up and far away.
The teacher told the children to close up to each other near the camp fire and then began his story.
The three close upon the Dornier with all their guns firing.
When she came close up to the screen to call Pollux, the woman, who was certainly sitting to him as a model, spoke louder than before, and called out merrily: The Emperor — Complete
Disc two offers a “Close Up with the Cast of Harry Potter” (29 min.) which talks to the main stars, like the three leads, Draco Malfoy (Tom Felton) and Neville Longbottom (Mathew Lewis). HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE Blu-ray Review – Collider.com
Close up, they look cheap and tawdry. Times, Sunday Times
In the intervening two decades, equipment had become more portable; pictures could be taken in the thick of battle; civilian victims and exhausted begrimed soldiers could be studied close up.
Much of the movie is shot in close up.
This deep palmar arch lies close upon the forepart of the carpo-metacarpal joints; it sends off branches to supply the deeply situated muscles, and other structures of the palm; and from it are also derived other branches, which pierce the interosseal spaces, and appear on the back of the hand, Surgical Anatomy
Close up, Ben, close up -- mum's the word hereabouts! Peregrine's Progress
Much of the movie is shot in close up.
Close up, Penny could see he had mud in his long lank hair.
Close up, it looks cheap and plasticky, like a broken old allotment greenhouse. Times, Sunday Times
Viewed close up, they become satisfying linear abstractions in their own right, in shades of black, white and gray.
We must close up the old well; it's dangerous.
The painting is almost unreadable close up, but when we step back we admire its sheer powers of organisation. Times, Sunday Times
Some of the big ad agencies close up shop early for the holidays.
She straightened -- her arms swept out and the writhing vine, with its tendrilled heads of ruby bloom, five flames of misty incandescence, leaped into the faces of the soldiers now close upon us. The Moon Pool
We must close up the old well; it's dangerous.
Bars remain open until four in the morning, but most churches close up shop by six or seven. TIME TO MURDER AND CREATE
close up an umbrella
Close up ... well, they've been called piranha ant nests. Crashlander
Now when I set a rifle aside temporarily I close up the amino boxes that go with it and put them away in a gear bag before uncasing the next rifle.
John Burcham for The New York Times A close up of young Boswellia sacra a k a frankincense, whose gum resin is one of the three biblical gifts that the wise men bestowed on the infant Jesus. NYT > Home Page
Now you can see close up the random assortment of houses that were visible only as flashes of light from the other side of the bay. THE EARTH: An Intimate History
He stepped close up to her, made a rustling with the branches, and let his sword clatter, but she moved not. Undine
The hills rose in soft gray-green slopes around them, and she knew that, deep in this backland, they were coming close upon her secret grove.
The painting is almost unreadable close up, but when we step back we admire its sheer powers of organisation. Times, Sunday Times
She is strangely dissociated from her husband, whose disembodied voice, imperviously reciting poetry, ‘struck close upon her ears.’
Not a lot, but they tend to appear in noticeable situations, such as extended close ups.
The cinematography is astonishing, almost monochrome, capturing the darkness at the heart of the story, using close ups to great effect.
This herbal ointment will help to close up your wound quickly.
Finding the swiftest pursuer close upon his heels, he threw off, first his blanket, then his silver-laced coat and belt of peag, by which his enemies knew him to be Canonchet and redoubled the eagerness of pursuit. The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon
I remember the Suzuki nature show where he had cattle on and the narration went something like “fed to stupifaction” with a close up of cattle in a feed lot. Of Prions and People - The Panda's Thumb
They seem to be farsighted and rely on touch to identify objects close up.
All the others were converted but I was to remain an implacable and unpersuadable disbeliever in mesmerism and hypnotism for close upon fifty years.
It was now June, and the weather was warm, and the lady wore a light gauzy black dress, — there is a fabric which the milliners I think call grenadine, — coming close up round her throat. The Way We Live Now
These close up in strong sunshine, and give the plant its other names of poor man's weatherglass and shepherd's sundial. Times, Sunday Times
On this occasion I went over the hillside farm, and the same thing happened; the Germans spent most of the night in heaving shrapnel and high-explosive gas shells into us, and at dawn they dropped one of the heaviest protective barrages for their own men that I have ever seen them start, but they were not quite on to the game our boys had played, because half an hour before, our men, with the companies that were supporting them, crept out into No Man's Land as close up to the German trenches as they could get with any degree of safety, so that when the Germans dropped their barrage on the front line there was nobody there but the wounded. The Artillery at Passchendaele
close up the shop
Word was passed down the long column to close up, and to be ready to make a dash for the ford.
We'll get a close up look at the young staffers who keep a presidential campaign rolling.
When it rains, there is no alternative but to close up shop.
Close up your eyes, and draw the curtains close.
Time's close up makes Padilla's visage appear far more sinister.
The spectrum of Australian flowers is amazing; some like waratahs large and obvious, others like thryptomene small but charming; seen close up, many are exquisite.
Dave, the lens is the most important factor in close up/macro photography. any used dslr outfitted with the right lens will work for you. Dear Deron | clusterflock
When the foe is at Beth-aven, he is at Benjamin's rear, close upon thee, O Benjamin (Jud 5: 14). Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Some of the 'hardier' plants close up their stomatal pores when ozone levels increase. Undefined
It must have been a truly awesome sight to watch a herd of brontosaurs crossing a Mesozoic floodplain; evoking the same sense of awe, and puniness in one's own being in comparison, as one would feel when observing whales close up.
These spectacular images of its works, which are only available on Google Earth, will allow scholars and art lovers to appreciate from close up the most minute details and motifs represented, the lines and brushstrokes of each artist, the under-drawing, craquelure of the varnish and many other aspects difficult to see at first hand. Museo del Prado and Google Present Fourteen Masterpieces
The advert features close up's on various parts of Megan's enviable bod and has the title Megan Fox in Emporio Armani. Entertainmentwise.com | TV News
They always look smaller close up.
The camera dwells lovingly on bookshelves, there are close ups of book covers and their spines, the title page and the endpapers.
Much of the movie is shot in close up.
It always takes you slightly aback when you see a Test cricketer close up. Times, Sunday Times
Many among them had never seen a European before, and not content with accurately inspecting them on every side, came close up to the travellers, and "pawed" them all over. The Moravians in Labrador
Next, To _creep to you with his Body and Head close upon the ground_, by saying, _Come nearer, Come nearer_, or the like Words; to understand and do it, entice him with shewing him Bread, or the like: Thrusting down any rising part of his Body or head, and roughly threatning him; if he slight that, a good Jerk or two with a slash of Whip-cord will reclaim his Obstinacy. The School of Recreation (1684 edition) Or, The Gentlemans Tutor, to those Most Ingenious Exercises of Hunting, Racing, Hawking, Riding, Cock-fighting, Fowling, Fishing
Seen close up they took on all the fragility of a porcelain figurine.
We came within sight of Masherbrum, which provided us with close up views, as well as Mustagh Tower and countless other stone monoliths. Undefined
The beautiful and vast Texan landscape is well-shot and contrasts strikingly with the character close ups, intensifying their isolation.
The nest is, as a rule, placed in a babool or other thorny tree, close up against the trunk. A Bird Calendar for Northern India
Close up, though, it looked like the trumpets of daffodils, which made them the most spring-like thing I saw all day.
It's fun to learn magic tricks and be able to do close up conjuring, and it's also an interesting learning process.
A close up of the stupa, the dome shape on top of the gompa monastery. Thank You India
He hopes one day to be back inside the palace in a grander capacity, but for now he will make do with seeing life close up, and learning the locations of London's railway termini. Ed Balls: 'Tony and Gordon never found a way to bring it together'
Before these could close up all the passes, by a vallum being thrown up on all sides, five horsemen being despatched between the enemies 'posts, brought the account to Rome, that the consul and his army were besieged. The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08
This herbal ointment will help to close up your wound quickly.
The erythema on the patient's foot was psoriasis. pyoderma gangrenosum • Same lesion close up. Recently Uploaded Slideshows
Alternatively, some people use varifocal or bifocal lenses in order to see objects clearly that are both close up and far away.
However, both long and short-dated gilts recovered falls to close up the day. Times, Sunday Times
They were the most weatherly ships and could afford the additional risk in order to be close up to Brest should a sudden shift of wind enable the French to get out. Hornblower And The Hotspur
This herbal ointment will help to close up your wound quickly.
I accept that in the short term, farmers who are farming sheep and cattle, pastoral farmers, simply cannot afford to close up their paddocks and plant trees, or allow them to revert to native bush.
The awl cuts a tidy hole in the leather that will close up tight around the thread as it is sewn, leaving a watertight stitch.
It must have been a truly awesome sight to watch a herd of brontosaurs crossing a Mesozoic floodplain; evoking the same sense of awe, and puniness in one's own being in comparison, as one would feel when observing whales close up.
A rock face, so forbidding from a distance, shows fracture lines from close up: nothing is forever, everything changes. Visiting Galsan Tschinag in his Yurt Katharina Rout
Black Narcissus, Sister Ruth's transition from the dour, ascetic domain of nunhood into the unfettered, sexualised outside world is heralded by that unforgettable big close up of red lipstick metamorphosing Kathleen Byron's sensuous mouth. DVD Times
Berlin (the London ones have all fallen in, the collapse beginning after the great landslip and fire), and close upon this came the cessation of tall building and the concentration of design upon the vast (and often dangerous) carapace roof and its gigantic supporting pillars and foundation rafts. The Shape of Things to Come
SYDNEY - Megan Fox used a body double for close up shots, showing her use new Blur smart phone in the latest Motorola advertisement because of her clubbed thumbs. he 'Transformers' suffers from a genetic condition called 'brachydactyly,' commonly known as clubbed thumbs. Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7
The teacher told the children to close up to each other near the camp fire and then began his story.
Close up, the priest too had an institutional tinge; boiled-tattie complexion, musty soutane and a home haircut. A Small Death in the Great Glen
Six are vertical, of one or more of the promontories close up, including this print now at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Mo., that is thought to date between 1878 and 1881. His Best Shot
A full 3D view allows the ability to zoom in to see the action close up for full immersion.
But we're to dae't wi'oot loss o 'life on oor ain part, if possible; ye'll therefore approach the place cannily and get as close up to it as maybe wi'oot bein' discovert; and, that done, ye'll be pleased tae keek roun 'and ascertain if there's ony way o' gettin 'intil it wi'oot haein' to stor-r-m it. A Middy of the King A Romance of the Old British Navy
Close up, they didn't look at all like the vicious savages she had encountered when she first came here.
The captain ordered his men to close up.
After fastening the storm shutters on his own shop, he helped old Marise close up the taproom.
I dove below the cloud layer and started after a couple of enemy aircraft but they were shot down before I could close up.
The camera dwells lovingly on bookshelves, there are close ups of book covers and their spines, the title page and the endpapers.
It was my first thought to have made a fire and burned them; but my disposition has always been opposed to wastery, for one thing; and for another, to have burned these things that she had worn so close upon her body seemed in the nature of a cruelty. David Balfour, a sequel to Kidnapped.
When it rains, there is no alternative but to close up shop.
The specimen is inferred to represent a five-year-old individual and to be at a young adult ontogenetic stage, based on a combination of histological features including narrower outermost zones, dense haversian bone, extensive and multiple endosteal bone depositional events and absence of an external fundamental system. d, Close up of the gastroliths scale bar, 2 cm. The Panda's Thumb: Transitional Fossils Archives
In the barricade is a closet, click on the bottomright of it to close up. Archive 2010-04-01
Its sensuous black-and-white close ups of sun-kissed female faces warm the heart through their intimacy, perfectly reflecting the haunting soundtrack of multi-layered whispering bird song and wind.
It was as white and alive as the filament of a light bulb viewed close up.
Firstly try putting a piece of nylon stocking over the flash and you will take away the harsh effects of flash - especially close up.
It was now June, and the weather was warm, and the lady wore a light gauzy black dress, -- there is a fabric which the milliners I think call grenadine, -- coming close up round her throat. The Way We Live Now
All the others were converted but I was to remain an implacable and unpersuadable disbeliever in mesmerism and hypnotism for close upon fifty years.
The captain ordered his men to close up.
This meant I didn't have to get risk life and limb to get a good close up shot.
Close up of materials used: pleated crepe paper streamer, edges of paper lace doilies, glitter stack strips cut with shaped scissors, colored glitter glue, clip art. Archive 2009-02-01
No modern replica would have the intricate 1930s art deco details which can be clearly seen from close up.
In the growing dark they were unsighted until close up.
A large automatic musical instrument -- a 'penny in the slot' polyphone -- resembling a grandfather's clock in shape -- stood against one of the partitions and close up to the counter, so that those behind the bar could reach to wind it up. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
Aladdin refused, so the sorcerer cast a spell to close up the cave again.
That picture was so obviously taken from a nearby few feet, judging from the close proximity of the close up.
She straightened — her arms swept out and the writhing vine, with its tendrilled heads of ruby bloom, five flames of misty incandescence, leaped into the faces of the soldiers now close upon us. The Moon Pool
To cook, place food in a black pot or black painted jar, place the food and container in an oven bag close up with a clothes peg and place on card board scrap in the back corner of the reflector.
The moment I said I was a police officer, everyone would close up like a clam.
At last the scaffoldings of the lofty engines appeared: carrobalistas, onagers, catapults and scorpions, rocking on chariots drawn by mules and quadrigas of oxen; and in proportion as the army drew out, the captains ran panting right and left to deliver commands, close up the files, and preserve the intervals. Salammbo
You go on home. I'll close up .
The paint looks real dauby when you get close up to her. Princess Polly's Gay Winter
That ride isn't even the most ostentatious of the night, an honour that belongs to the aerialist who travels the length of one side of the stadium hidden in a balloon apparently from Roswell before emerging in a Tron-style outfit to delight patrons in the stands with some close up acrobatics on the return journey, Drummer Dom Howard and bassist Chris Wolstenholme enjoy their own trip on the platform mid-set as they riff and roll while Bellamy fetches his hybrid "keytar" for Undisclosed Desires. Londonist
Before making a statement with a beaded vintage purse, a bold piece of jewelry, or fashion's most ubiquitous accessory these last few seasons - a belt to give you that '50's inspired waistline, I remind my clients to make sure their skin is ready for its close up Try a lotion like Keri®, a trusted brand that has helped provide effective moisturization for generations and is celebrating its 50th "golden" anniversary this year. An Island Life
He has a close up of the scarf flapping in the wind.
Then your pores will close up and you won't catch pneumonia. Times, Sunday Times
But close up, the building is clearly much more substantial and tectonically satisfying than any temporary exhibition pavilion.
Thus the scapula, which is the pleurapophysis of the occipital vertebra, is vertical on its first appearance in the embryo of tetrapoda, and lies close up to the head Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
Each member of the family has a pallet of coarse cloth stuffed with fluffy flax, which is placed at night on the floor, on benches, on part of the top of the huge stone or brick stove, or on a platform laid close up under the ceiling on beams extending from the stove to the opposite wall of the living-room. The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919
In the Temburong District there is an outdoor zoo where some of the fauna - from various Bornean primates to banded kraits and other unfriendly vipers to argus pheasants can be inspected close up.
And don't close up the plastic bag until you get to the movie theatre, or the popcorn will get soggy from the steam. Maria Rodale: Stealth Organic Movie Popcorn
Also, in some persons histamine can close up the bronchial tubes (air passages of the lungs) and make breathing difficult.
We did many things using our intuition: camera placement, zooms, close up, etc… and it ended up working quite well, though more knowledge of basic rules would have helped.
The fifth is an extreme close up of a new leaf - the camera is zoomed in so close you don't see the edges of the leaf.
It was my first thought to have made a fire and burned them; but my disposition has always been opposed to wastery, for one thing; and for another, to have burned these things that she had worn so close upon her body, seemed in the nature of a cruelty. David Balfour, Second Part Being Memoirs Of His Adventures At Home And Abroad, The Second Part: In Which Are Set Forth His Misfortunes Anent The Appin Murder; His Troubles With Lord Advocate Grant; Captivity On The Bass Rock; Journey Into Holland And Fran
There are very few close ups and at times its hard to tell whose doing what to whom and why.

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