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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211. She paused and, sensing his tone, walked nearer to him.
212. The oceanographer told delegates that the problem of ocean acidification was worse in high latitudes, in the Arctic and around Antarctica, than it was nearer the equator.
213. When applying force at A , which is nearer fulcrum, A or c?
214. I talked to Yaacov Trope, a New York University professor who has researched how people's reactions change as they get nearer to a situation.
215. Judicial activist, nearer to justice, not letter-bound and surpassing law-makers' design, pays much less attention to precedent and occupies much more independent spirit in reality.
216. I'm always in a flurry ( ie confused and disorganized ) as deadlines get nearer.
217. Nearer home, I loved the stories collected in memory of Katie Sullivan, the 23-year-old mental home care assistant who was murdered last year.
218. The twinkle in his yellow-brown eyes seemed to come nearer.
219. It was inevitable that they should go short on dog food. But they hastened it by overfeeding , bringing the day nearer when underfeeding would commence.
220. Baseball Passing on the side of home plate nearer the batter. Used of a pitch.
221. Those spectra nearer the periphery of the objective are dimmer than those to the central spot.
222. "That must be a jacamar, " said Herbert, trying to get nearer.
223. If the nearer star has orbiting planets,(http://sentencedict.com/nearer.html) keen-eyed observers can spot the subtle clues of their presence in the magnified light.
224. Nearer the house, in the shadow of the office, Farrell has built a "plant prison", where the "villains and thugs of the plant world" are confined to cell-like beds.
225. The last thing he needed was another near - fatal accident, with the Quidditch final drawing ever nearer.
226. Through the Law of Attraction whatever you are focussing upon you will bring nearer to manifestation.
227. But how surprised were the boy and girl, when they came nearer, to find that the house was built of gingerbread, and ornamented with sweet cake sand tarts, while the window was formed of barley-sugar.
228. Although it is true that I am near of kin, is a kinsman - redeemer nearer than I.
229. Katherine subtly slowed down as she saw Harold's house getting nearer.
230. Mercury is called an "inferior planet" because its orbit is nearer to the Sun than the Earth's.
231. In monoecious species, male flowers are usually produced nearer the tip of a shoot than female flowers, this being related to the levels of auxins and other hormones.
232. But they hastened it by overfeeding, bringing the day nearer when underfeeding would commence.
233. As we creep nearer and nearer to cold weather, I thought I'd give you a quick update on my apartment-sized Victory Garden.
234. He also figured out the planet goes faster when it's at perihelion, nearer the sun, than when it's at aphelion, its farthest distance.
235. As the appointed day drew nearer, Hopkins started making the 100-mile round trip from Long Island to New York City twice a day, spending at least $15 on gas each trip.
236. The term caudal means nearer to the tail and is used in description of embryos.
237. Jacques argues that something like the tributary system that existed in the past can be re-created, but that system applied mainly to China's nearer and smaller neighbours.
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