CLOSE in Classic Quotes

Simple words can express big ideas - learn how great writers to make beautiful sentences with common words.
Quotes from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Free Online Vocabulary Test
K12, SAT, GRE, IELTS, TOEFL
 Search Panel
Word:
You may input your word or phrase.
Author:
Book:
 
Stems:
If search object is a contraction or phrase, it'll be ignored.
Sort by:
Each search starts from the first page. Its result is limited to the first 17 sentences. If you upgrade to a VIP account, you will see up to 500 sentences for one search.
Common Search Words
Buy the book from Amazon
 Current Search - close in The Great Gatsby
1  Gatsby's eyes opened and closed.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 7
2  It had seemed as close as a star to the moon.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 5
3  Mr. Sloane murmured something close to her ear.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 6
4  She walked close to Gatsby, touching his coat with her hand.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 7
5  He was reluctant to close the book, reading each item aloud and then looking eagerly at me.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 9
6  But Wilson stood there a long time, his face close to the window pane, nodding into the twilight.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 8
7  It started because she passed so close to some workmen that our fender flicked a button on one man's coat.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 3
8  The circle closed up again with a running murmur of expostulation; it was a minute before I could see anything at all.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 7
9  He had come a long way to this blue lawn and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 9
10  Myrtle pulled her chair close to mine, and suddenly her warm breath poured over me the story of her first meeting with Tom.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 2
11  Each night he added to the pattern of his fancies until drowsiness closed down upon some vivid scene with an oblivious embrace.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 6
12  As Gatsby closed the door of "the Merton College Library" I could have sworn I heard the owl-eyed man break into ghostly laughter.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 5
13  The butler came back and murmured something close to Tom's ear whereupon Tom frowned, pushed back his chair and without a word went inside.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 1
14  A white ashen dust veiled his dark suit and his pale hair as it veiled everything in the vicinity--except his wife, who moved close to Tom.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 2
15  She wanted her life shaped now, immediately--and the decision must be made by some force--of love, of money, of unquestionable practicality--that was close at hand.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 8
16  It was sharply different from the West where an evening was hurried from phase to phase toward its close in a continually disappointed anticipation or else in sheer nervous dread of the moment itself.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 1
17  No--Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and short-winded elations of men.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 1
Your search result possibly is over 17 sentences. If you upgrade to a VIP account, you will see up to 500 sentences for one search.