Synonym: almost, approximately, close to, just about. Similar words: not nearly, early, early warning, regularly, similarly, particularly, nearby, on earth. Meaning: ['nɪrlɪ /'nɪə-] adv. 1. (of actions or states) slightly short of or not quite accomplished 2. in a close manner.
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91. He nearly always wears a bow tie.
92. Oh, give over complaining, we're nearly there.
93. I'm nearly fainting with the heat in here.
94. The common household fork was nearly unknown in antiquity.
95. High winds nearly tore the roof off the house.
96. You nearly got hit by that car!
97. Hunter knew nearly all of this already.
98. The last bout of pneumonia nearly did for her.
99. I nearly died laughing when she said that.
100. The car is pretty nearly new.
101. A serious injury nearly wrecked his career.
102. We're nearly always at church on Sundays.
103. He goes climbing nearly every weekend.
104. I've nearly finished that book you lent me.
105. The company employs a workforce of nearly 5(sentencedict.com),000.
106. We've saved some money, but it's not nearly enough .
107. The caste system shapes nearly every facet of Indian life.
108. Nearly 500,(http://sentencedict.com/nearly.html)000 pupils are to be guinea pigs in a trial run of the new 14-plus exams.
109. In the 19th century, inbreeding nearly led to the extinction of the royal family.
110. The pair had a comfortable win, beating the German team by nearly three seconds.
111. She's nearly 86 and still takes a constitutional every morning.
112. Emus grow to almost two metres and can run at nearly 50 kph.
113. Nearly three-quarters of people questioned in an opinion poll agreed with the government's decision.
114. The price of houses has nearly doubled in the last ten years.
115. A car suddenly shot out of a side road and nearly hit me.
116. They voted to accept a deal whereby the union will receive nearly three-quarters of a million pounds from the International Miners Organisation.
117. Nearly all of the people believed him because he was a very good man.
118. It was to be Johnson's first meeting with the board in nearly a month.
119. She's a strong woman, but she nearly went to pieces when Arnie died.
120. He left the gas on and nearly blew us all to kingdom come .
More similar words: not nearly, early, early warning, regularly, similarly, particularly, nearby, on earth, near to, far and near, year after year, neat, sneak, garlic, one another, Charlie, fairly, beneath, parlance, formerly, elderly, properly, underlying, one after another, wear, tear, year, gear, hear, rear.