Example sentences for: close-ups

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

  • It would have been "a half-hour shorter without Costner's close-ups of his own horizon-scanning mug," says the Washington Post 's Rita Kempley.

  • The 463 steps to its top climb in comfortable stages to reveal a panorama of the surrounding city, different views of the cathedral’s interior, and fascinating close-ups of the dome’s structure and the 16th-century frescoes restored in 1996.

  • To go down, take the staircase (158 steps) for some fascinating close-ups of the cathedral’s construction.

  • Leone, Schickel writes, developed a style that alternated cunningly between extreme wide shots and extreme close-ups partly in an effort to monumentalize Eastwood's face; the director's mise en scène became "a landscape of masks."

  • The former is noir camp, another acid- and amphetamine-soaked foray into Oliver Stone's America, full of pixilated brutality and meaningless montage (fractured zooms, black-and-white scudding clouds, close-ups of carrion and stuffed mountain lions).


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