Near

I can't see near objects very clearly without my glasses.

Stay near at all times.

At the end of the line nearest the Arch, under a flary light, stood an old bearded man having the look on his face of a kindly but somewhat irritated moo-cow.

The end is near.

We're getting near to Xmas.

The deceased man had no near relatives.

she is thy fathers neere kinswoman.

A matter of near consequence to me.

a near friend

The Besht preached that the simple man, imbued with native faith and able to pray fervently and wholeheartedly with a sense of joy in his heart, was nearer and dearer to God than the learned but joyless formalist spending his whole life in the study of Talmud.

a version near to the original

a near escape

The two words are near synonyms.

The near front wheel came loose.

the near ox; the near leg

Toward ſolid good what leads the neareſt way;

Don't be near with your pocketbook.

[T]o let you know, Miss, he's so near, it's partly a wonder how he lives at all: and yet he's worth a power of money, too.

a near pointer

He was near unconscious when I found him.

I jumped into the near-freezing water.

I near ruptured myself trying to move the piano.

[…] he hears for certain that the Queen-Mother is about and hath near finished a peace with France […]

Sir John Friend had very near completed a regiment of horse.

Peter ran after them as fast as his legs would carry him, but at last he had only one of the hares left, and when this was gone, he was very near burst with running.

Thinking about those pounds and pence, I near forgot my wound.

"I damn near forgot." He pulled an envelope from his jacket.

The fire was almost dead, the chamber near dark.

There are habitable planets orbiting many of the stars near our Sun.

Ts'ai Ch'ien 蔡乾 was born in 1908 in Changhua near Taichung, Taiwan (Formosa).

He entered the inn, and asking for dinner, unbuckled his wallet, and sat down to rest himself near the door.

This time was most dreadful for Lilian. Thrown on her own resources and almost penniless, she maintained herself and paid the rent of a wretched room near the hospital by working as a charwoman, sempstress, anything.

It shied, balked, and whinnied, and in the end he could do nothing but drive it into the yard while the men used their own strength to get the heavy wagon near enough the hayloft for convenient pitching.

Most of the Himalayan rivers have been relatively untouched by dams near their sources. Now the two great Asian powers, India and China, are rushing to harness them as they cut through some of the world's deepest valleys.

The voyage was near completion.

His opinions are near the limit of what is acceptable.

There was no way Brín felt anything anywhere near what I felt for him. He saw me as a friend.

The ship nears the land.

We started back in the same conditions, and for part of the journey ran through semi-darkness, but the sun appeared once again as we neared London.

As he neared a bridge over the East Coast Main Line near Great Heck, he lost control. His Land Rover left the carriageway and veered onto the hard shoulder before biting into the grass verge.