Example sentences for: close-up

How can you use “close-up” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Besides the “fish-eye view” of the city and harbor, you get a close-up of the grand Canada Place, jutting out into the harbor like an ocean liner, with a hint of the port’s 19th-century beginnings in its white simulated sails.

  • The brilliant cinematographer, Changwei Gu, shoots her nude through a doorway of hanging beads, and in close-up through a fogged, rain-drizzled windshield; he keeps her simultaneously naked and veiled, and the effect is both alluring and unnerving.

  • His face is fascinatingly two tiered: lean in long shot, in close-up its features distend to the point of acromegaly, the mouth going slack with lust.

  • On television, we see close-up interviews with designers babbling tensely just before the show and gasping with relief and fatigue afterward.

  • The movie's most talked-about close-up shows the track of a bullet as it enters a body, plowing its way through tissue and into a liver, which releases blackish bile.


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