NEARLY in a Sentence

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317 example sentences for NEARLY, such as:

1. He nearly fainted when he saw it.
2. Hang 'on a minute I'm nearly ready.
3. After three scoops the jar was nearly empty.
4. 'Mr. Drebber has been with us nearly three weeks.
5. The descent of the mountain took nearly two hours.

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 Meanings and Examples of NEARLY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
nearly
 ad.  (of actions or states) slightly short of or not quite accomplished; all but
 ad.  in a close manner
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  'Mr. Drebber has been with us nearly three weeks.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER VI. TOBIAS GREGSON SHOWS WHAT HE CAN DO
2  He nearly fainted when he saw it.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER VII. LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS
3  They must, he reflected, be awaiting him anxiously, for he had been absent nearly five hours.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS
4  His intention had been to be absent a year at the most, but a combination of unforeseen circumstances prevented his leaving the mines for nearly five.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS
5  He walked down the road and went into one or two liquor shops, staying for nearly half-an-hour in the last of them.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VI. A CONTINUATION OF THE REMINISCENCES OF JOHN W...
6  Boxer was an enormous beast, nearly eighteen hands high, and as strong as any two ordinary horses put together.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter I
7  In addition, Napoleon ordered the almost empty bins in the store-shed to be filled nearly to the brim with sand, which was then covered up with what remained of the grain and meal.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VII
8  And he very nearly succeeded--I will even say, comrades, he WOULD have succeeded if it had not been for our heroic Leader, Comrade Napoleon.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VII
9  A cow, three sheep, and two geese were killed, and nearly everyone was wounded.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VIII
10  Three of them had their heads broken by blows from Boxer's hoofs; another was gored in the belly by a cow's horn; another had his trousers nearly torn off by Jessie and Bluebell.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VIII
11  It was nearly nine o'clock when Squealer made his appearance, walking slowly and dejectedly, his eyes dull, his tail hanging limply behind him, and with every appearance of being seriously ill.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VIII
12  These covered a period of many years, but I observed that the entries ceased nearly a year ago and quite abruptly.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER DR. LANYON'S NARRATIVE
13  She reclined, propped up, from mere habit, on a couch: as nearly in her old usual attitude, as anything so helpless could be kept in.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII
14  The saddle and housings of this superb palfrey were covered by a long foot-cloth, which reached nearly to the ground, and on which were richly embroidered, mitres, crosses, and other ecclesiastical emblems.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
15  The other squires repeated nearly the same formula, and then stood to await the decision of the Disinherited Knight.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
Example Sentence: (107 in 8 pages)
16  Hang 'on a minute I'm nearly ready.
17  I nearly killed myself carrying that suitcase all the way here.
18  Resistance to change has nearly destroyed the industry.
19  The investigation continued for nearly three years.
20  Of the four million people who have become vegetarians in Britain, nearly two-thirds are women.
21  The national railway system has nearly all been electrified.
22  She went nearly mad with grief after the child died.
23  I nearly suffocated when the pipe of my breathing apparatus came adrift.
24  She had nearly got out of the bath and put on her clothes when the telephone rang.
25  After three scoops the jar was nearly empty.
26  The train stopped with a violent jerk , nearly tipping me out of my bunk.
27  The defensive team nearly equipoised the offensive team.
28  Hiroshima was nearly obliterated by the atomic bomb.
29  The descent of the mountain took nearly two hours.
30  Happiness, I have discovered, is nearly always a rebound from hard work.