Similar words: near and dear, bearer, shearer, near, pallbearer, on earth, nearest, near to. Meaning: [nɪr /nɪə] adv. (comparative of `near' or `close') within a shorter distance.
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151. He was getting nearer to himself, travelling on a long loop of bumpy path through the trees.
152. The gasp of delight is all the stronger for the trick played being nearer to hand.
153. He expanded the area of cut grass to encircle nearer trees - this was his own idea and it pleased him hugely.
154. The hopeless cry came again, louder, nearer, and more terrible than before.
155. When some one comes nearer without invitation, we feel threatened.
156. In the long term, he concedes, Microsoft's net margins will be nearer 15% than 25%.
157. If diplomacy was bringing a settlement no nearer, military events would do so only very slowly.
158. You should contact your Travel Agent for further information nearer your departure date.
159. Most of them were from the barbaric tribes nearer the frozen Hub, which had a sort of export trade in heroes.
160. She brooded over the strangeness of her long sight - over the seeing of far-away thins that came nearer.
161. Nearer Lexington Avenue, the shops that had invaded the row of red sandstone town houses were beginning to open.
162. She was engaged in dressing a doll for the bazaar which loomed nearer and nearer.
163. I hope you can attend the meeting for which an agenda and papers will be circulated nearer the time.
164. She thought of the baby only as her last blunder in loving,[sentencedict.com] a mistake leading her nearer to this dreadful woe.
165. Nearer the coast, huge areas of land are given over to cultivating tomatoes.
166. Again the howl, nearer, more drawn out, chilling the heart as well as the blood.
167. Sammy needed to recover a little before they could move him to a hospital nearer his home.
168. The sounds came from the left this time and were much nearer.
169. All the old fusty stuff had to be blown away, of course, so we might be nearer to nature.
170. As they moved nearer, Nuadu felt the heat belch out.
171. Nearer at hand he had been involved in the building of forts at Bovisand and Crownhill.
172. But the innocence of first impression gives way as one gradually gets nearer.
173. Farms are fairly small but increase in size nearer the hills.
174. Which of these apparently contradictory views is nearer to the truth?
175. I hear only a distant occasional cowbell and the cheerful nearer transactions of insects.
176. In the meantime, electricity prices were gradually raised to nearer long-run costs.
177. If they substituted the word 'Lust' for 'Love' in the popular songs it would come nearer the truth. Sylvia Plath
178. It is always preferable to have the rig nearer the wave rather than viceversa.
179. His heavy footsteps were thumping nearer and nearer when the root of a tree sent him sprawling.
180. She waited until he grew nearer and then walked up to him, her face alight.
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