Sentence for near | Use near in a sentence

Sentences with near in them. The sentences below are ordered by length from shorter and easier to longer and more complex. They use near in a sentence, providing visitors a sentence for near.

• It was near Fort C.F. (7)
• Farina was nowhere near. (10)
• He drew a chair near her. (4)
• At times he was near despair. (12)
• He so near her, and in misery. (4)
• She wished him not so near her. (4)
• Captain Bulsted sauntered near. (10)
• Another whitecoat was lying near. (10)
• They were speaking as they drew near. (4)
• But Mutual comes pretty near the idea. (9)
• A saw-mill had been built near Halifax. (19)
• At least they were to be near one another. (10)
• These drag the orator too near to the matter. (10)
• But it was deliciously near to the real thing. (10)
• Quite near it medicinal springs were discovered. (12)
• I was mild as milk all those days I was near her. (10)
• As he came near, they raised a hubbub of gratulation. (10)
• Two men were sitting near, one on each side of a woman. (8)
• Near the balustrade cowered the white kitten and mewed. (12)
• The action took its name from a water-power mill near by. (7)
• There was an inn near the station where they knew Mathilde. (12)
• But this idea illumined him only near the moment of parting. (10)
• He envied Redworth the common friendly right to be near her. (10)
• Now that she had lost Chillon, no one was near to do so much. (10)
• He burned to be near these ladies, and he passed them but once. (10)
• He was near; and quietly the eyelids of mademoiselle lifted on him. (10)
• I do not like the idea of leaving Mrs. Grant now the time draws near. (4)
• And the lime-flowers that year were of rare prime, near honey-coloured. (8)
• With such views about marriage, what business had you to go near a man? (8)
• Men from the camp of a regiment near by ran in crowds to see, all shouting. (1)
• This was as near to religion, perhaps, as his practical spirit had ever gone. (8)
• The far and the near must be relative, and depend on many varying circumstances. (4)
• There was a ladder leaning against one of the houses in repair near the school. (10)
• Rhoda knew in a moment that she was near a great trial of her strength and truth. (22)
• Then blow upon blow was struck, and he prayed to be near her till he died: no more. (10)
• The hour was near nine in the evening; the room was dimly lighted by a single candle. (1)
• There were keen, sharp hissings in the air, terminating abruptly with a thump near by. (1)
• The Greek stretched forward his ear, and was never so near getting it vigorously cuffed. (10)
• To be so near Antonia, and as far as if he lived upon another planet, was worse than ever. (8)
• Anne found Captain Benwick getting near her, as soon as they were all fairly in the street. (4)
• Evan strolled near the group, and bowed to Mrs. Shorne, whom he had not seen that morning. (10)
• You will offend, Go near to outrage them; and perturbate As they have not deserved of you. (10)
• He passed the remaining years of his life in an asylum near Bonn, where he died July 29, 1856. (3)
• The hour was near midnight when she came into the room, bearing another letter from the Park. (22)
• Not the dimmest lamp, or guiding sound, was near; but the lady went on as one who knew her way. (10)
• She remains, however, kneeling near the register, and she involuntarily inclines a little more toward it. (9)
• At a social gathering he observed near him several young men engaged in eager but whispered conversation. (12)
• As soon as he realized that Wurzburg was so near he had slipped down from Gotha for a glimpse of the manoeuvres. (9)
• She loved him hungrily and jealously, always in fear for him when he was absent, even anxiously when she had him near. (10)
• The rich brother-in-law near Bristol was the pride of the alliance, and his place and his carriages were the pride of him. (4)
• The Allens, he believed, had lived near them too long, and he knew the young man on whom the Fullerton estate must devolve. (4)
• It has six finger holes, three near each end, and is pierced with another hole at the middle, across which the player blows. (3)
• She did not think very much about it, however: he pleased her for the present; she liked to have him near her; it was enough. (4)
• Various difficulties made Paris unpleasant to me, and the Princess Valuyeff offered me a refuge on her estate near Petrograd. (12)
• My destiny, whatever it might be, fluttered over them; to see them seemed near the knowing of it, and not to see them, deadly. (10)
• Near upon morning he roused with his tender fit strong on him, but speechless in the waking as it had been dreamless in sleep. (10)
• On closer approach we distinguished near the landing the form of a low gray vessel quite unlike any craft we had hitherto seen. (20)
• When the uhlans got near the colonel, and when they had seen him lying down in agony, they all planted their lances in his body. (10)
• Something gave way in him, and words came welling up; for the moment he forgot himself, forgot everything but that he was near her. (8)
• It was near upon the hour of the unmasking of the great Lombard conspiracy, and Vittoria, standing there, was the beacon-light of it. (10)
• She stood near the little running ripple of the flat sea-water, as it hurried from a long streaked back to a tiny imitation of spray. (10)
• After all, he was near that truth in his devotion to his daughter; perhaps that made him understand a little how he had missed the prize. (8)
• The time was near the half-hour bell before dinner, the situation between them that of the fall of the breath to fetch words electrical. (10)
• There had been a collision between the Imperial and patriotic forces, near Brescia, from which the former had retired in some confusion. (10)
• Imagine now, if a handsome young woman were known to be admired rather more than enough by a good-looking gentleman near about her own age. (10)
• Wheeler found himself near Venetia Phillips, who was nursing a sprained elbow, the result of being pitched against a fence by a vicious horse. (13)
• The Countess hastened away from one who, when roused, could be almost as clever as herself, and again stood in meditation near the joyful Harry. (10)
• In the riverside house which he now inhabited near Mapledurham he had a gallery, beautifully hung and lighted, to which few London dealers were strangers. (8)

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