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It would be nigh on impossible for the UK to develop an air-defence system that could defend the whole country with such limited resources.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

You know the end of summer is nigh when Vail Resorts announces opening dates for its ski resorts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

After all, it’s a formula that has worked for nigh on six decades.

From Salon ● Jul. 13, 2026

Or, the end of this Supreme Court term is nigh, at least.

From Slate ● Jun. 29, 2026

There were three bedrooms upstairs, Erma said, but no one had been to the second floor in nigh on ten years, because the floorboards were rotted through.

From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls

Or the end of the Anthropocene might be nigher than you think.

From New York Times ● Apr. 25, 2022

“That’s nigher where it is,” said Joe; “she ain’t living.”

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens

I do’no—I really do’no but I’d like that knoll t’other side the river just as well, though, and it would be nigher the spring.

From Two Wyoming Girls and Their Homestead Claim A Story for Girls by Carrie L. Marshall

They presently ran aground upon a sandbar and there stuck fast for the time, though in such shoal water that we could not come nigher to them than we then were.

From The Rose of Paradise Being a detailed account of certain adventures that happened to captain John Mackra, in connection with the famous pirate, Edward England, in the year 1720, off the Island of Juanna in the Mozambique Channel; writ by himself, and now for the first time published by Howard Pyle

The gossoon that came from Beerhaven, said it would be nine o'clock at any rate; but sure it's nigher to ten now.

From The O'Donoghue Tale Of Ireland Fifty Years Ago by Charles James Lever

I remember the voyage for Cap'n Mary's sake, but most I remember it because 'twas then that I come the nighest in my life to committin' matrimony.

From Friend Island by Francis Stevens

It comes nighest to the senses when the atoms act and react upon each other, in the flow of mighty rivers, in the leap of cataracts, in the turmoil of the sea.

From Creed And Deed A Series of Discourses by Felix Adler

He draweth toward his land the nighest he may, and hath won back the kingdom of Oriande all at his will.

From The High History of the Holy Graal by Sebastian Evans

It is the nighest, and Miss Clara cares little for rough roads.

From St. Ronan's Well by Sir Walter Scott

I can't tell what's the thought comes nighest to ye when we look at him.

From Cape Cod Folks by Sarah P. McLean Greene