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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181. The belay will probably be a few feet lower than it was and nearer to the exit from the groove.
182. To say he was both administrative and executive officer to the family - and legal adviser - would be nearer the mark.
183. As it drew nearer to Corrie's fifth birthday she began desperately seeking a way in which to keep her in Chertsey.
184. Delia Sutherland did not need to go nearer to know who they were - apparitions of herself, her father.
185. As I got nearer, I saw they were young people, mostly in their late teens and early twenties.
186. The idea of training hard for the jump was soon shelved and the day of reckoning drew nearer.
187. In fact, as the great challenge of the conference drew nearer, an astonishing change seemed to come over my father.
188. There was the whistle of a bomb which got nearer and nearer.
189. Possibly, but the site of Clairvaux suggests an explanation much nearer at hand.
190. In Moscow, nearer his native Armenia, he placed third.
191. The appointed hour of the ceremony was drawing nearer.
192. He leaned nearer, speaking confidentially.
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193. Walking nearer, he murmured bleakly, Ma.
194. The gap between candidates usually narrows nearer to polling day.
195. The Avent Anti - colic Nipple - nearer to natural feeding.
196. Each step brought him nearer to London, farther from his own sober inartistic life.
197. Through pathless woods she ran, but the sound of his pursuing feet ever grew nearer.
198. They were nearer the level of the ancient Sumerians or of the Maya civilization of America.
199. Near an ear, a nearer ear, a nearly eerie ear.
200. Approaching nearer, the Gothic building is gloomy and heart - rending.
201. He lay and watched his birthday tick nearer, wondering if the Dursleys would remember at all, wondering where the letter writer was now.
202. They are the more insolent, and it is the nearer ended.
203. As the election day came nearer, mud slinging and violence got even worse.
204. And for many of us, that threshold is drawing nearer[sentencedict.com], or already a distant smirch in the rear-view mirror.
205. The windlass creaked slowly as the rope wound up creak bringing the bucket nearer the top.
206. He went back into the bedroom, slipped into the nearer bed, and said goodnight.
207. The footsteps came nearer, grew quiet and turned to low whispers like ghosts lamenting.
208. It'slowly drew nearer, with each day bringing a new harbinger of its coming.
209. Anterior ( Ventral, Front ) Nearer to the front of the body is anterior.
210. This brings us an important step nearer to being able to prevent the birth of children with a particular type of inherited disease.
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