Close Quarter

So too is a near miss - a so-called close-quarter situation - involving the Costa Atlantica, which in 2008 came too close to the Panamanian registered car carrier Grand Neptune in the Dover Strait between Britain and France.

Toyota had said that Japan's "narrow parking spots and close-quarter maneuvering" put too much strain on the steering rods, supplied by Japanese company Somic Ishikawa, and cracked the rods. ❋ Unknown (2010)

On the western side of Misrata, where rebels have been slowly pushing Gaddafi's forces back along the road to Tripoli, there was close-quarter fighting near the satellite town of Zawiyat al-Mahjoub. ❋ Unknown (2011)

No TEP-Cs tonight—this was going to be a close-quarter bug hunt. ❋ Kresley Cole (2011)

Savage close-quarter fighting took place at the barricades, and in the hospital, which caught fire at about six o'clock, when the wounded had to be evacuated; by midnight the perimeter had shrunk to sixty-five yards in front of the storehouse. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The weapons were silent 9-mm close-quarter killing machines. ❋ Vince Flynn (2010)

The vest had full-wrap protection, critical for close-quarter engagements, when an arms-out gun stance left the sides of the torso vulnerable. ❋ Chuck Hogan (2010)

Ghane, known as Alexander, was participating with his Coronado-based SEAL team in a "close-quarter combat" training scenario — fighting an enemy with weapons at very close range, said Lt. Tommy Crosby, a Naval Special Warfare Group 1 spokesman in Coronado, Calif. ❋ Unknown (2008)

It was studded with sharp spikes and would make a devastating weapon if it came to close-quarter fighting. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Years after officers had personally observed the effects of machine guns in war, the brass clung almost mystically to the romance of close-quarter battle and championed tactics that Maxim guns had made obsolete. ❋ C. J. Chivers (2010)

We would have not stood a chance in a close-quarter battle. ❋ Sugu Althomsons (2010)

However, the evidence is that the Bush administration also permitted U.S. military units to engage in close-quarter executions when encountering alleged insurgents, even if they were unarmed and presented no immediate threat to American or allied troops. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Trained in close-quarter combat, certified to work in confined spaces and armed to the teeth, these four-person teams of Border Patrol agents have been busy lately. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The supreme court has been the cockpit for close-quarter ideological combat since the South and Richard Nixon declared war on the judiciary in the late 1960s. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I got [wasted] [off that] game of [close quarters]. ❋ The Other Mongoose (2010)

"Dude, that was a [great] [round] of 'close [quarters] combat'." ❋ Duke Of Deerfield (2017)

Jim [Carry] walks out of [the elevator], [turns], then says "It was me" ... Close Quarter Mortar ❋ TheGrogotch (2010)

[I don't know what] I ever saw in that guy. He was my [manager]. It [must've] been close quarters syndrome. ❋ Siouxsie Supertramp (2023)