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"Nigh" in a Sentence (25 examples)
The zombie apocalypse is nigh!
The end is nigh.
Nowadays it is nigh on impossible to find a girl who does not wear a tattoo.
Night draws nigh.
I knew the end was nigh.
The end was nigh.
Repent, the end is nigh!
This is a vote the ramifications of which are going to last for many generations. We have to think very long-term here. Anyone with a sense of history knows that this country has fought bitterly to maintain its freedom and independence for nigh on a thousand years. My heart wants us to remain in Europe, but my head tells me I have no choice but to vote to leave. I'm going to vote with my head.
When noontide drew nigh they felt more ardently in love than ever; Chloe pined and languished at the sight of Daphnis's comeliness which seemed to be without flaw or blemish, and when Daphnis beheld Chloe in her fawn-skin and with the garland of pine-leaves about her brow holding out the bowl to him, he fancied that he beheld one of the Nymphs of the grotto, and drawing near he took the garland from her head and placed it on his own.
As the spring drew nigh the snow melted, the earth displayed itself, and the grass began to grow.
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The end is nigh!
Daybreak is drawing nigh.
For with ſuch puiſſance and impetuous maine / Thoſe Champions broke on them, that forſt the fly, / Like ſcattered Sheepe, whenas the Shepherds ſwaine / A Lyon and a Tigre doth eſpye, / With greedy pace forth ruſhing from the foreſt nye.
a. 1831, Ludovico Ariosto, William Stewart Rose (translator), Orlando Furioso, 2006, Echo Library, page 185, He at his head took aim who stood most nigh;
By these and many histories more, it is most evident, that the more nigh salvation and deliverance approach, the more vehement is temptation and trouble.
The enemy, somewhat imboldened, draws nigher to the fort.
You then went to St. Andrews, the nighest ocean port.
The end is nigh (or at least it was supposed to be), but the Pacers in northern England kept plugging away providing a service while awaiting the much-delayed arrival of their replacements.
Who sends the waves that bring us nigh / Unto the shore, the rock of Christ?
Ye […] are made nigh by the blood of Christ.
When the charnel-eyed Pale Horse has nighed
So, after a spell, he decided to make the best of it and shoved us into the front parlor.[…]It looked like a tomb and smelt pretty nigh as musty and dead-and-gone.
Hell of a surprise in the seventh season premiere of Game Of Thrones. Arya Stark, fresh off a nigh Cersei-level ambush of the Frey household, comes upon a small campfire surrounded by fresh-faced red cloaks.
When the Moon is horned […] is it not ever nigh the Sun?
The cottage stood nigh the burn, in a little garden, with lilyoaks and grosart bushes lining the pathway.
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