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    Use "nearby" in a sentence

    nearby example sentences

    nearby


    1. He ordered his assistant to fetch some over-priced coffee from the nearby Starbucks and contemplated his next big deal, a large painting of Jesus and Lady Julep entwined in a strangely sexless pose


    2. He hacked up a wad of phlegm and spit it into a nearby bowl


    3. And if they live nearby, we can do all that enjoy the babies and send them home to their parents


    4. “I reversed gravity,” Red exclaimed unnecessarily as she punched out a nearby guard


    5. None of the nearby stores were open yet and there was a soft morning mist that added to the eerie calm that contrasted strongly with all the fighting and explosions they had just left behind


    6. A couple of hospital workers sit on a bench nearby, chatting, keeping an eye on things


    7. An old man sitting on one of the benches nearby, GABRIEL, looks up at John


    8. Zitteraal motions to a nearby building


    9. He holds services in the local pubs and is chaplain to both the local college and the steam railway which runs nearby


    10. Estwig hadn't pestered too badly to come with them, he must still have a bit of yaag or a girl nearby

    11. John picks up a book lying nearby, throws it at the wall


    12. We could grab lunch at a pub somewhere nearby perhaps


    13. If their manufacturing plant is nearby, ask to take a tour


    14. Above, the sky is filled with thousands of stars and a nearby swirling spiral galaxy


    15. An elderly woman nearby is (CONTINUED)


    16. Nurse 1 is nearby with a small paper bag in her hand


    17. He snaps his fingers authoritatively at two workers from the Subcontinent idling about nearby trying not to


    18. Prince Ahmed, wearing furry slippers, a pair of boxer shorts with Snoopy on them, and a frilly bathrobe, sits miserably on the silk sheets of his huge canopy waterbed, while his portly, graying American lover, RICCI BAOLONI, cardigan sweater and cotton briefs, plays softly at the white baby grand piano nearby


    19. John and Teekra stand hand in hand, watching the limo burn nearby while Russ attends to Ahmed, who is oblivious to John and Teekra and still hysterical


    20. Nearby, stands a life-size copy of Rodin’s "The Thinker,"

    21. Nearby, there’s a cluster of anti-aircraft guns


    22. Russ, Ricci, Khalid stand nearby


    23. John sits nearby, logging it all on with his laptop


    24. A shattered airplane wheel lies nearby, aircraft parts are everywhere, as are broken bottles of moonshine and flaming boxes


    25. Mohammed is poised nearby, watching her


    26. ANOTHER GUARD sits in a small shack nearby with his head on a desk, SNORING


    27. At a serving trolley nearby, Mohammed pops a cork, winks at the princess, who nods slightly


    28. ‘Cheek!’ I retorted, grabbing a handful of cleavers from the nearby hedgerow and dabbing it on him


    29. There was no reason not to mine the nearby moon for all the materials they could use


    30. You leave her nearby for a moment to buy ice cream

    31. She is nearby


    32. Around its base there are nice lilies and nearby there is an apricot tree


    33. All things considered, it was much nicer than I thought; the asram has been improved a lot since 1992: A spacious cottage has been built to the west, and another one is under construction nearby


    34. We took part in interesting discussions, we played volleyball with the others, we walked to the nearby village every afternoon


    35. There were several thermonuclear flashes from a nearby point in space


    36. The young woman smiled and, pulling a chair from a nearby computer station, sat next to Kara


    37. A fly hovered above the disordered tresses, analysing and collating the data flooding the atmosphere, another joined it, debated landing but was deterred by a worm of hair borne on the cooler breeze crossing from the nearby seashore


    38. Parking the two excited young people and their baggage in a café nearby with strict instructions not to wander off, she went to introduce herself to the warden, a woman by the name of Zareide


    39. Greening on nearby trees


    40. Between them they manhandled the two ruffians to the rubbish store, threw them in and rammed the door shut, using a nearby length of discarded metal bar to jam the door firmly

    41. Half a dozen ducks splashed in the shallows near a small wharf that apparently served the glasshouses nearby … there was a boy sitting on the wharf fishing … he waved as they passed


    42. ’ The girl said, setting the tray down nearby


    43. sweets and savouries from the nearby shop


    44. She took a wherry across the river to the Southwark side where the warehouse was situated, strolling along the lanes behind the Shakespearean theatre where herb gardens, supplying the nearby centre for the Herbmasters, occupied neat little patches of ground carefully tended by a cadre of gotteswomen specially trained for the purpose, the purple outfits of their calling showing up clearly as they toiled amongst the neat rows of plants


    45. When he didn't think anything was nearby he would straighten his legs to stretch them


    46. As he stood by the bed he noticed a pile of clothing stacked up on the nearby chair


    47. he knew there was one nearby, he was not concerned as the


    48. Alan enjoyed her even more this time because he didn't have Desa nearby to worry about


    49. ’ Berndt promised, with a weather eye to the crew member doing something technical with a rope nearby


    50. Then horrible thrashing erupted in some nearby water, and a scream that turned Alan's hair white and made his nuts crawl up inside his belly














































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    "nearby" definitions

    close at hand


    not far away in relative terms