nigh
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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 another long stretch of unrelenting news, the weekend is finally nigh.
From Slate ● Aug. 7, 2026
Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s wedding weekend is nigh, and if you’re anywhere on the internet, you already know.
From Salon ● Jul. 2, 2026
The end is nigh for hereditary peers, whose inherited right to sit in the House of Lords is set to be stripped from them after the passage of a new law this week.
From BBC ● Mar. 13, 2026
“The bride-maidens rejoice the eyes that wait the coming of the bride; but when the bride draweth nigh, then the maidens shine not to the eyes that are filled.”
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
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
Through all hopes that keep us brave, Further off or nigher, Love me for the house and grave,— And for something higher.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846 by Various
We be fast set at trump, man, hard by the fire; Thou shalt set on the king, if thou come a little nigher.
From Gammer Gurton's Needle by Mr. S. Mr. of Art
The old man sees toward his brandished bells The climbing fire With hands of boiling gold stretch nigher.
From Poems of Emile Verhaeren by Emile Verhaeren
Every one," says Coverdale, "doth his best to be nighest to the mark.
From Early Theories of Translation by Flora Ross Amos
But the yard remained, and, nighest the seaward edge of it, Exciseman Jones slept in his fearful winding sheet and bided his time.
From At a Winter's Fire by Bernard Edward Joseph Capes
Thorstein sent forthwith a messenger to Wick to Flosi, and so to the nighest farm-steads.
From The Story of Grettir the Strong by William Morris
She taketh Perceval by the hand and leadeth him to the windows of the hall that were nighest the sea.
From The High History of the Holy Graal by Sebastian Evans
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
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