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"Nearly" in a Sentence (22 examples)
When I ask people what they regret most about high school, they nearly all say the same thing: that they wasted so much time.
You nearly poked me in the eye with your pencil.
I nearly choked on a fishbone.
I was nearly run over by a car.
She wasn't hurt, but she got goose bumps when her car nearly crashed.
The sea covers nearly three-fourths of the earth's surface.
We were nearly frozen to death.
Here it's August and our summer vacation is nearly over.
I was nearly hit by a car.
It's nearly lunchtime. Why don't we stop to have a bite to eat?
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He left a nearly full beer on the bar.
I nearly didn't go to work yesterday.
He was (so/very) nearly over the worst part of his college degree.
She was like a Beardsley Salome, he had said. And indeed she had the narrow eyes and the high cheekbone of that creature, and as nearly the sinuosity as is compatible with human symmetry.
'Since Heidi's been here, delightful things have happened nearly every day.'
In the past two years, NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope has located nearly 3,000 exoplanet candidates ranging from sub-Earth-sized minions to gas giants that dwarf our own Jupiter.
It’s been nearly four years since China put tariffs on American-grown soybeans during a tit-for-tat trade war with then-President Donald Trump – and they remain in place despite the change in administrations.
And whosoever hath traced mee and nearely [translating de pres] looked into my humours, Ile loose a good wager if hee confesse not that there is no rule in their schoole, could, a midde such crooked pathes and divers windings, square and report this naturall motion, and maintaine an apparance of liberty and licence so equall and inflexible […].
Let that which he learns next be nearly conjoined with what he knows already.
She could have joined most comfortably in all their supposings, and suspicions, and doubts, and prognostications, but the honour of the family was too nearly concerned to allow free reins to her tongue.
[H]e was also accounted a man of wealth, and was nearly related to a high chief.
I doubt some danger do's approach you neerely.
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