closing ranks Sentence Examples
- The family closed ranks in the face of adversity.
- After the scandal, the company's executives closed ranks to protect the CEO.
- The town closed ranks to prevent the spread of gossip.
- The soldiers closed ranks to fend off the enemy attack.
- The neighbors closed ranks to support the victim of a crime.
- The students closed ranks to keep their secret from the teachers.
- The community closed ranks to boycott a new business that had opened.
- The union closed ranks to negotiate a better contract with management.
- The political party closed ranks to ensure its victory in the election.
- The athletes closed ranks to protect their coach from criticism.
closing ranks Meaning
closing ranks
decided or won by a narrow margin, to unite in a concerted stand especially to meet a challenge, the concluding passage (as of a speech or play), confined or carefully guarded, in a reserved or cautious manner, to contract, fold, swing, or slide so as to leave no opening, marked by fidelity to an original, characterized by liberal use especially of commas, to reduce a gap, formed with the tongue in a higher position than for the other vowel of a pair, strict, rigorous, being near in time, space, effect, or degree, to bring together the parts or edges of, the movement of the free foot in dancing toward or into contact with the supporting foot, intimate, familiar, to bring to completion by performing something previously agreed, to cease operation, a road closed at one end, secretive, within one's personal interests so that one is strongly affected, to fill up (something, such as an opening), hot and stuffy, having no openings, to reduce to nil, to bring to an end or period, very precise and attentive to details, to enter into or complete an agreement, very short or near the surface, to move so as to bar passage through something, the conclusion of a musical strain or period, to come to an end or to a state of completion, to draw near, to consummate (see consummate entry 2 sense 2) by performing something previously agreed, not generous in giving or spending, fitting tightly or exactly, a conclusion or end in time or existence, to move so as to prevent passage through something, a coming or bringing to a conclusion, to bring or come to an end or conclusion, to make complete by circling or enveloping or by making continuous, not generous, to terminate access to (a computer file or program), to come together, to conclude discussion or negotiation about, very short or near to the surface, difficult to obtain, the point at which something ends, to suspend or stop the operations of, to go out of business, decided by a narrow margin, to draw the free foot up to the supporting foot in dancing, to be uncompromisingly obstructive, to ignore deliberately, to deny access to, having little space between items or units, to bring or bind together the parts or edges of, an enclosed area, not open or frank, in a close position or manner, to come to an end or period, to block against passage, to engage in a struggle at close quarters, having a strong liking each one for the other, to enter into or complete an agreement (as for the sale of real estate), to refuse admission, rigorous sense 1, to stop the operations of, screen, exclude, a hostile encounter, to block against entry or passage, to bring to an end or to a state of completion, restricted to a privileged class, within a sensitive or personal area, hidden from sight, secluded, secret, high sense 13, a narrow passage leading from a street to a court and the houses within or to the common stairway of tenements, terse, compact, the precinct (see precinct sense 2a) of a cathedral, enclose, contain
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FAQs About the word closing ranks
decided or won by a narrow margin, to unite in a concerted stand especially to meet a challenge, the concluding passage (as of a speech or play), confined or ca
cooperating, collaborating, pulling together, banding (together), uniting, cohering, teaming (up), joining, federating, consolidating
breaking up, disbanding, separating, splitting,falling out, detaching, disengaging, severing, parting, segregating
The family closed ranks in the face of adversity.
After the scandal, the company's executives closed ranks to protect the CEO.
The town closed ranks to prevent the spread of gossip.
The soldiers closed ranks to fend off the enemy attack.
