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Examples of near in a Sentence

Examples of near
1. Her new neighborhood had to be “more familyish, less hipsterish,” and preferably near Prospect Park, which she liked better than McCarren Park, so packed with exercisers that it felt like an athletic field.
2. The small scratch meant that his copy of X-Men #2 was merely fine when it otherwise would have been near mint. ‎
3. Now all this was very fine, but not at all in keeping with the Celebrity's character as I had come to conceive it. The idea that adulation ever cloyed on him was ludicrous in itself. In fact I thought the whole story fishy, and came very near to saying so.
4. This dictionary will be nowhere near complete in the foreseeable future.
5. This annual March gathering of the digital elite, held at a resort near Tucson, is a combination of a three-day free-form think tank and schmooze-athon where the latest trends are dissected and, in the corridors or on the golf course, deals are hatched.
6. It was brought to General Lee as he sat on his horse near the Chancellorsville House, and, unable to open it with his gauntleted hands, he passed it to me with directions to read it to him.
7. Bars gemel, or two barrulets placed near and parallel to each other.
8. His boss gets grouchy when deadlines draw near.
9. The CGLE is a general model that describes the behavior of reaction-diffusion systems near onset of self-oscillations, while they remain approximately harmonical.
10. Ever since she was placed in the gifted program, she's become so high and mighty that no one wants to be near her.
Examples of nears
1. The ship nears the land.
Examples of nearer
1. We are nearer hand to the great coal districts, and there is a tendency for the men to go there. We are nearer hand to the great mining centres than are those that Mr. Scott represented
2. Of this we may be sure, that the most haphazard guess at the cause by the most unlettered, nowaday, will be nearer the mark-thanks to the diffusion of knowledge—than were the speculations of the learned, ages ago [ …]
3. Objective assessment is good but defeatism will reduce our potentials even when the prospects for victory have never been nearer.
Examples of neared
1. The horse broke into a gallop as they neared the barn.
Examples of nearing
1. The drop which thou shakest from thy wet hand, rests not where it falls, but to-morrow thou findest it swept away; already on the wings of the North-wind, it is nearing the Tropic of Cancer.
Examples of nearest
1. Excuse me, sir, could you tell me where the nearest bookstore is?
2. GET TALKED DOWN: When a pilot gets caught in weather, he may call the nearest tower for Ground Controlled Approach landing assistance, wherever the airport has GCA radar.
3. The digit in Fig 23 changes towards that class label which the classifier and the heatmapping implicitly perceive as the nearest neighbor.
4. Length was assessed using an infantometer to the nearest 0.1 cm.