The group of us closed in a little around the car.

And as I saw her a cold hand closed around my heart.

Before she could go far, he closed a hand around her arm.

She opened her left hand and closed it around the case.

The post office closed around the turn of the century.

The theater then closed around the late 1980s to early 1990s.

I took one step, two steps, and a hand came out of the darkness to close around me.

He reached up and his fingers closed around the line.

We see it among college students who will close ranks around one of their own.

But her throat closed around any words she might have said.