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Example sentences for "being near"

  • Even now, being near, he sees what I suffer.

  • This country is cold, and subjected to great frosts and heavy falls of snow, being near to Cashgar, yet separated by such prodigious mountains that there is no passage for caravans.

  • Lahore is one of the greatest cities of the east, being near twenty-four coss in circuit, round which a great ditch is now digging, the king having commanded the whole city to be surrounded by a strong wall.

  • He remarked to Napoleon, that the situation of the island was not suitable to his purpose of retirement, being near so many points where his presence might produce dangerous agitation.

  • He stood aside until the crowd should thin, and in the mean time had the felicity of being near Mrs. Fenton.

  • Defn: Living or being near; adjacent; as, the neighboring nations or countries.

  • Defn: The state or quality of being near; -- used in the various senses of the adjective.

  • Defn: Being near or moving towards the shore; as, inshore fisheries; inshore currents.

  • The state or quality of being near; -- used in the various senses of the adjective.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "being near" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    being alone; being bound; being cast; being compelled; being composed; being concerned; being dead; being destitute; being eager; being either; being employed; being evil; being first; being found; being heated; being joined; being loved; being minded; being much; being now; being ordained; being ordered; being possessed; being reconciled; being smaller; being united