Sentence for nearly | Use nearly in a sentence

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

• Nearly twelve! (8)
• It was nearly seven. (8)
• It nearly broke my heart. (8)
• He was now nearly eighteen. (10)
• She knew nearly for certain! (8)
• She nearly turned and stole away. (8)
• That one died, and she did nearly. (8)
• That was his club, nearly opposite. (8)
• Anthony was nearly a generation ahead. (22)
• There remained nearly another hundred. (10)
• She became nearly black in their minds. (10)
• Mr. Blancove has nearly quitted this sphere. (22)
• I told you last night he nearly drove over me. (8)
• In his turn, Keith very nearly wrung his hands. (8)
• If he could kiss them, would he not go nearly mad? (8)
• The fellow must be drunk; he nearly ran over my legs. (8)
• They were nearly invisible in the gloom of the grave. (1)
• Lavender, so that his eyes nearly started from his head. (8)
• Meeting her eyes, a flood of feeling nearly mastered him. (8)
• Nearly one thousand Hurons were killed or taken captive. (19)
• Temple counted nearly sixty persons of quality stationed there. (10)
• When she had nearly reached the tow-path, she stopped affrighted. (8)
• Although nearly sixty years old, she is as lively as a woman half her age. (21)
• Drilling and building of earthworks filled up nearly every hour of the day. (19)
• They left England with the probability of being nearly a twelvemonth absent. (4)
• As a matter of fact, nearly all of them have been rewritten in a certain way. (9)
• They passed over the grass into very nearly darkness, and took off their coats. (8)
• We dined together nearly every day, sometimes at my expense, sometimes at theirs. (7)
• She had hardly ever been in a state so nearly approaching high spirits in her life. (4)
• My first evening at Callonby passed off as nearly all first evenings do every where. (6)
• A large orchestra was established in 1840, which remained active for nearly a decade. (3)
• Nearly all on the list of circus performances have inherited their strength and skill. (21)
• Sometimes they sacrificed the song to the sermon, though not always, nor nearly always. (9)
• He was skilful, as nearly all architects are, in playing upon that simple instrument Man. (9)
• Why, the old man Jackson left pretty nearly every cent of his money to found this school. (13)
• It was an evening paper, and I had nearly as much time for reading and study as I had at home. (9)
• Few foreigners fail to cross themselves before performing, and nearly all wear strange charms. (21)
• Running up by different staircases, Beppo and Luigi came upon Aennchen nearly at the same time. (10)
• There was a story of a brilliant young widow of our aristocracy who had very nearly snared him. (10)
• Indeed, so long as a thing is an exhibition, and you pay to see it, it is nearly certain to amuse. (2)
• The middle man is frequently ignored, the trust dealing directly, or nearly so, with the consumer. (7)
• We had such a case once when an experienced lion tamer was clawed by a lioness and nearly killed. (21)
• Nearly 7000 English, with insufficient food and clothing, made ready to face the approaching winter. (19)
• The crews landed, and had nearly built a fort when Iberville fell upon them and made them all prisoners. (19)
• Having said it, he was screwed up to feel it as nearly as possible, such virtue is there in uttered words. (10)
• They all fly to the big doors, and vanish into the moonlight, pulling the door nearly to again after them.] (8)
• The rope which towed the barges was nearly taut; and I knew if I could get on to the barges I should be safe. (8)
• A mortar made of 1 part lime to 6 parts sand is nearly as strong as one made from 1 part lime and 3 parts sand. (17)
• They went home to their hotel for their midday dinner, and to the comfort of having it nearly all to themselves. (9)
• He got back into bed and pulled the clothes nearly over his head; but he had left a streak of moonlight coming in. (8)
• Seymour had pretty nearly satisfied himself in that rich facade; certainly Lapham had not stinted him of the means. (9)
• The singing tone is a sort of nasal sing-song, the favorite method a nasal falsetto, the mouth being nearly closed. (3)
• His was the most subtle originality, the most personal style which stamped itself indelibly on nearly every composition. (3)
• Not till nearly two months after the battle had been fought did the news of the victory reach France by way of England. (19)
• His fort was nearly a mass of ruins, and reluctantly he hoisted the white flag asking Montcalm for terms of capitulation. (19)
• The wall between is nearly all window, with leaded panes, one wide-open casement whereof lets in the last of the sunlight. (8)
• As nearly right, too, in the wording of her opinion as one may be in three or four sentences designed to be comprehensive. (10)
• Materials were at hand, on a separate table; he went to it, and nearly turning his back to them all, was engrossed by writing. (4)
• Finally, in the morning, he met an acquaintance formerly at the school, Spangler, a tenor singer, himself nearly as poor as Haydn. (3)
• With half-sullen and half-shamefaced acquiescence the crowd breaks up and drifts back whence it came, till the alley is nearly empty. (8)
• They nearly came to blows over some window frames, which the architect had seen fit to alter without consulting the building committee. (13)
• At the risk of their lives, Montcalm and his officers strove to save the fugitives, but not until nearly 1000 had been slain did they succeed. (19)
• X Pierson had passed nearly the whole night with the relics of his past, the records of his stewardship, the tokens of his short married life. (8)
• Such fertility is unique in the history of composition, and is scarcely equalled even by Mozart, whose activity extended over nearly thirty years. (3)

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