nearer

Example Sentences

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Nearer to the top of the standings, Osasuna and Athletic Bilbao are tied on points and both wanting to clinch the Conference League berth that goes with a seventh-place finish.

From Washington Times • Jun. 1, 2023

Nearer the coast, Ben Bulben dominates the landscape, jutting from the earth like a great doorstop.

From Washington Post • Jul. 29, 2022

Cameron shows them performing the hymn "Nearer, My God, To Thee."

From Salon • Apr. 14, 2022

Nearer term, Brett Ewing, chief market strategist at First Franklin Financial Services, expected 2022 to be an unspectacular year for stocks.

From Reuters • Dec. 16, 2021

Nearer to the rosebush, on the edge of the woods, stood a hickory tree, its scaly bark like a ladder inviting her to climb.

From "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" by Robert C. O'Brien