Synonym: closest, nighest. Similar words: house arrest, near and dear, near, near by, nearly, nearby, on earth, near to. Meaning: [nɪr /nɪə] 
adv. (superlative of `near' or `close') within the shortest distance.
adv. (superlative of `near' or `close') within the shortest distance. 
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271. Dougal grabbed the body's legs and hauled it on its back to the edge of the gazebo nearest the pond.
272. Although he was now nearly twenty, he was still considerably smaller than even Mike, who was nearest him in age.
273. According to our present knowledge, this machine was the nearest the artificers of antiquity came to inventing a truly mechanical clock.
274. The nearest equivalent at the time was Peter Hain's Young Liberals.
275. Alejandro was all for putting a bullet through this she-devil's head and dispatching her to the nearest abattoir.
276. The boats were lowered but the harpooner on the boat nearest him was devoured by the Great White Whale.
277. He promptly turned off the by-pass and headed for the nearest hospital.
278. On dry land the nearest equivalents of the filter-feeders are the grazers.
279. Auctions were held to sell off the town lots, those nearest the station being the most expensive.
280. On the right, nearest his father, Hubert,[http://sentencedict.com/nearest.html] best-suited school-leaver with a downy boy's face and sharp cheek-bones.
281. Your body has expressed its need through this fixation on the nearest man.
282. There is often no teacher, and the nearest medical aid is in the town.
283. It is also found at all levels, not just among our nearest evolutionary ancestors, the monkeys and the apes.
284. He took a running dive off the trolley, rolled when he hit the carpet, and scurried under the nearest seat.
285. That fear sent her across to the nearest flickering candle.
286. He begged for a painkiller, and Martha drove twenty miles to the nearest doctor to get a prescription for codeine.
287. It was five long miles to the nearest pub.
288. The waste repository was usually the nearest watercourse.
289. He jumped into the nearest cab standing by.
290. He completed the lengthy course some three seconds faster than his nearest rival, Jonathon Ford.
291. Until the nineteenth century, yeasts for bread making were obtained directly from the nearest brewery.
292. This station is our closest , ie the nearest one to our home.
293. The contents of the condenser are measured in a graduate to the nearest 0.5 ml.
More similar words: house arrest, near and dear, near, near by, nearly, nearby, on earth, near to, unearth, far and near, nearness, near miss, not nearly, earnest, rest, wrest, forest, crest, earnestly, yesteryear, research, arrest, unrest, rest on, researcher, restore, restart, forestall, for the rest, interest.