Idiom
close in on
Meaning
To enclose around; to tighten or shrink; to collapse.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“The dark clouds close in on the small town.”
“As the police cars close in on the suspect, he realizes he has nowhere left to run.”
“The walls of the narrow valley seemed to close in on the weary travelers as the sun dipped below the jagged horizon.”
Examples
simple
“The dark clouds close in on the small town.”
contextual
“As the police cars close in on the suspect, he realizes he has nowhere left to run.”
complex
“The walls of the narrow valley seemed to close in on the weary travelers as the sun dipped below the jagged horizon.”
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