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    Synonyms and Definitions

    Use "nearly" in a sentence

    nearly example sentences

    nearly


    1. I pull on my ear flaps and waddle out with my case of beer, nearly tripping on the first step through the door


    2. Their bath was nearly a pool, one walked down steps into it


    3. "Venna?" he choked and took a long time recovering, nearly losing control of the boat


    4. the matter is that, nearly most of the time when God speaks


    5. Her attack hadn’t gone as she had expected, and she hadn’t thought that Scar was nearly as strong as he was


    6. ‘Inspector, it is nearly three thirty and my client has had nothing to eat


    7. ‘He is nearly ten years younger than me, Stephen


    8. He picks up his cup and drinks some of the nearly cold tea in it


    9. Then she had another gruesome thought, even though this was nearly desert, there could very well be carnivores out here, and she didn't even have a dinner knife on her for self defense


    10. At one point, I nearly rang Emma, but thought better of it, she’d only feel that she had to come over and the last thing I want is for her to come round here and see me in pieces

    11. The clock says it’s nearly three a


    12. Without that, it will be nearly a year till I can reach you


    13. was nearly brain dead, but that


    14. How ironic however, she was nearly three times as old as anyone on Earth was the day she was born, but she was young for a native


    15. It is a long and very warm hug; it very nearly undermines my practical non-emotional intentions and I feel tears pricking


    16. He spent nearly twenty-four hours


    17. As soon as Barney sees me, he bounds forward and throws his arms round my legs, nearly tripping me up


    18. nearly dropped his perfect girl while negotiating kerbs, and he cursed the fates that


    19. ’ Barney said, pushing the plate away from him with so much enthusiasm that it nearly falls off the table


    20. ‘Emma nearly went crackers, you know

    21. In his surprise and disgust Dan nearly crushed the empty brandy balloon that


    22. ‘What sort of idea?’ he called back, amusement audible in his voice – cheeky so-and-so! ‘Oh, hang on, I’ve nearly finished


    23. between Africa and Italy, the old man had been away for four years nearly and I think


    24. I had very nearly phoned Stephen to rip his head off for telling tales to Paul when I heard that, but it seemed ungrateful after all he has done for me


    25. For nearly ten years I shut myself away from all


    26. He was nearly the height of an average man already and getting pretty good strength for an Elf boy


    27. A dog wanders out one of the open front doors and one of students kicks at it, misses, nearly falls on his ass while other students laugh and point


    28. But they had never gotten it from him or from anyone nearly as good as he was


    29. The baby is nearly complete


    30. That's right, I'm having a baby tattooed onto my back and it's nearly done

    31. "You don't know what it's like to be only 28 years of age and have people nearly twice that working for you


    32. Nearly an all time low


    33. She was my lover for nearly two decades after the Brazilians left the Kassikan


    34. Jack died in the November and by the time we had got probate and so on, it was nearly February


    35. Russ chortles, guffaws, nearly swallows his chaw


    36. Johnny took a quick, almost furtive sip of the tea and nearly spat it out all over


    37. ‘I did have a sister, Dorothy, her name was … she was nearly ten years younger than me


    38. Theo passed more speed cameras on the way back, he was at nearly twice the speed limit on some sections of the small Irish motorway


    39. What’s the time? Eleven thirty nearly … no, probably not


    40. He was nearly in tears again

    41. We hadn’t got back here until nearly eight; it had taken a while to pack all the stuff into the cars and close the house up


    42. As I had predicted, we resorted to getting a take-away but even so, we didn’t eat until nearly ten forty-five – a silent meal - after which, by tacit agreement, we all went to bed


    43. I sit in the car for nearly ten minutes muttering imprecations about that bloody man before my sense of humour gets the better of me and, realising just how stupid this whole thing is, burst out laughing


    44. Liz doesn’t get back to the house until nearly three in the afternoon


    45. It was built in low orbit and could be seen from the ground for it was nearly the size of a hundred story office building


    46. Theo nearly gagged


    47. As a final comment, I add that it is now nearly one o’clock


    48. counted for nearly an hour, but instead of marshalling his thoughts towards the


    49. Melinda drove for nearly two hours, going far up into the Dublin mountains until her fuel gauge began to get low and then returned to her flat in the Dublin suburbs


    50. At one point, handing Stephen the sugar for his cereal, my hand brushed his and I nearly jumped with the electricity between us














































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    Synonyms for "nearly"

    about almost most near nearly nigh virtually well-nigh closely intimately roughly approximately all but in round numbers generally thereabouts parsimoniously

    "nearly" definitions

    (of actions or states) slightly short of or not quite accomplished; all but


    in a close manner