adverb
definition
In a close manner.
example
Finnish and Estonian are closely related languages.
definition
Secretly; privately
Examples of closely in a Sentence
Dean spent the remainder of the workday sorting reports and more closely reviewing the Byrne papers.
He didn't expect a reply and started forward, trailed closely by Yully.
He looked more closely and saw that it was an ant.
Jule trailed as closely as he dared.
He looked closely at the creature.
You're either lying or not looking closely enough.
He looked at her closely, a slow smile spreading across his face.
And closely related to all your mares.
Jenn looked at her closely, uncertain how to take the words.
It was a closely written letter of two sheets from Bilibin.
We knew the young girl was in trouble shortly after she left her house, with Howie following closely behind her.
The foundation was closely modelled on Winchester College, with its warden and fellows, its grammar and song schoolmasters, but a step in advance was made by the masters being made fellows and so members of the governing body.
The more closely a man was engaged in the events then taking place in Russia the less did he realize their significance.
Prince Andrew, being always near the commander in chief, closely following the mass movements and general orders, and constantly studying historical accounts of battles, involuntarily pictured to himself the course of events in the forthcoming action in broad outline.
Rostov, always closely followed by Ilyin, rode along the side of the road between two rows of birch trees.
He was watching her closely, and she willed her body not to respond to him as it had earlier.
Beyond stating that in colour it conforms very closely to the striped phase of domesticated tabby, it will be unnecessary to describe the species.
In 1640 Henderson, Baillie, Blair and Gillespie came to London as commissioners from the General Assembly in Scotland, in response to a request from ministers in London who desired to see the Church of England more closely modelled after the Reformed type.
Then looking around more closely, they saw that much of the treasure was already melted, for the oaks and maples were arrayed in gorgeous dresses of gold and crimson and emerald.
Now tell me, my dear boy, are you serving in the Horse Guards? asked the old man, scrutinizing Anatole closely and intently.
In three carriages involved among the munition carts, closely squeezed together, sat women with rouged faces, dressed in glaring colors, who were shouting something in shrill voices.
Other members of the defense bar would surely look closely if their clients were apprehended because of unverifiable tips and assail the source, if they could locate it.
Jenn asked, watching him closely.
She peered at him closely.
Demons are … demons, and Immortals are more closely related to angels.
He was peering closely at the people on the screen, as if trying to assess if there were any survivors.
He took off running toward the palace, his demon vision guiding him in the darkness. Kris followed closely, and they burst onto the yards surrounding the palace.
The most magnificent part of the exterior and indeed the finest polychrome monument in existence is the west façade, built of richlysculptured marble from the designs of Lorenzo Maitani of Siena, and divided into three gables with intervening pinnacles, closely resembling the front of Siena cathedral, of which it is a reproduction, with some improvements.
After awhile he went nearer, and looking closely at the buds, found that they were folded up, leaf over leaf, as eyelids are folded over sleeping eyes, so that Birdie thought they must be asleep.
She looked more closely at the paper she'd just signed and flipped the page to the receipt he'd stapled there.
She looked at him more closely.
To examine it more closely.
Then looking more closely at the trees around, they saw that the treasure was all melting away, and that much of it was already spread over the leaves of the oak trees and maples, which were shining with their gorgeous dress of gold and bronze, crimson and emerald.
Prince Andrew entered a plain tidy room and saw at the table a man of forty with a long waist, a long closely cropped head, deep wrinkles, scowling brows above dull greenish-hazel eyes and an overhanging red nose.
Among the soldiers in the shops and passages some men were to be seen in gray coats, with closely shaven heads.
Through the cross streets of the Khamovniki quarter the prisoners marched, followed only by their escort and the vehicles and wagons belonging to that escort, but when they reached the supply stores they came among a huge and closely packed train of artillery mingled with private vehicles.
The small bands that had started their activities long before and had already observed the French closely considered things possible which the commanders of the big detachments did not dare to contemplate.
Its whole surface consisted of drops closely pressed together, and all these drops moved and changed places, sometimes several of them merging into one, sometimes one dividing into many.
She dismounted and examined the equipment more closely.
I managed to calm myself enough to relate what little I knew of what happened to the people with whom we'd both worked so closely.
Tell me that, Dean continued, picking up a large bone and looking at it closely.
Wynn poured her a cup of coffee and sat back, studying her closely.
He stood over Claire Quincy, much too closely.
He looked up to find Dan studying him closely.
We have some time to think about this, Kiki said, peering at him closely.
She studied the picture more closely.
He unfolded his arms and faced her, studying her closely.
More or less closely connected with the Northern Church are the theological seminaries at Princeton, Auburn, Pittsburg (formerly Allegheny - the Western Seminary), Cincinnati (Lane), New York (Union) and Chicago (McCormick), already named, and San Francisco Seminary (1871) since 1892 at San Anselmo, Cal., a theological seminary (1891) at Omaha, Nebraska, a German theological seminary (1869) at Bloomfield, New Jersey, the German Presbyterian Theological School of the North-west (1852) at Dubuque, Iowa, and the Presbyterian Theological Seminary of Kentucky, which is under the control and supervision of the northern and southern churches.
Closely allied with this industry was shirt-making, with an output valued at $4,263,610.
In the western Sierras, which are more or less closely attached to the main chain of the Cordillera, Cambrian and Silurian fossils have been found at several places.