Near-by

"Near-by" in a Sentence (5 examples)

“If you lost them in the near-by wood,” said the Fairy, “we’ll look for them and find them, for everything that is lost there is always found.”

For a time he kept to the ground, but finally, discovering no spoor indicative of near-by meat, he took to the trees.

He had the car pushed to a near-by stable, amidst the mixed emotions of the little crowd, and next day he had it hauled home.

Marge recently dressed Joanne Dru ranch style during the making of Howard Hawks’ Red River. Miss Dru, in old-style calicoes and ginghams, felt grubby beside the dudes and dudesses who galloped over from near-by ranches to the Arizona location where the picture was being shot.

Los Angeles itself was just emerging from a long period of glacial fundamentalism, its ice age of Protestant orthodoxy. In near-by Hollywood, the movie colony was in its “purple period,” full of scandal and commotion.

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