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Example sentences for "near the"

  • He lives in a retired part of the city, near the Pantheon, with his mother, who is a widow, a very respectable woman, always dressed in black.

  • If I remain here any longer, I shall miss the last omnibus; and I live on the other side of the river, near the Luxembourg.

  • Near the church of Notre Dame de Lorette, so he told me.

  • Near the bed, in the shade, sat a poorly but neatly clad woman about forty years of age, who was knitting industriously with some long wooden needles.

  • A numerous fleet was equipped in the ports of Italy; and the troops, after a short and prosperous navigation over the Ionian Sea, were safely disembarked on the isthmus, near the ruins of Corinth.

  • To an ordinary person the mere sight of such a tube would have been as distasteful, certainly after a week or so, as the smell of a quail to a man striving to eat one every day for a month, near the end of his gastronomic ordeal.

  • Near the middle of the lake, ranged at an equal distance from its center and from each other, were three--what shall I call them?

  • The lower end of the backbone, near the tail, we had broken off.

  • Near the center of the raft we arranged a pile of the skins of the water-pigs for Desiree; a seat by no means uncomfortable.

  • Over this framework we stretched the large piece of hide so that the ends met on top, near the middle.

  • On the ledge, near the edge of the water, stood two Incas.

  • Being so near the Giant's Causeway, I took the opportunity, on my way homewards, of visiting that object of high geologic interest, together with the magnificent basaltic promontory of Fairhead.

  • In the morning, after rising up the locks between Mariehop and Wenneberga, and passing through Lakes Roxen and Boren, we found ourselves at Motala, near the entrance to the Wettern Lake.

  • Dressed in Western clothes, she went to St. Paul's Chapel that Wednesday night and sat near the front.

  • He lived near the State University of New York at Stony Brook, near the eight or so Chinmoy disciples, near Atmananda.

  • Near the start of the "Statement," Rama lists the names of "credible persons who can verify the truth of my assertions.

  • The maritime towns Ancona, Crotona, Centumcellæ, resisted the assaults of Totila Sicily was reduced by the zeal of Artaban, and the Gothic navy was defeated near the coast of the Adriatic.

  • Numa is said to have dedicated to Janus the covered passage at Rome, near the Forum, which is usually called the Temple of Janus.

  • In the Etwah district, near the banks of the river Jumna, a boy was captured from the wolves.

  • It was found that the right ventricle was transversely opened for about an inch, the ball having penetrated its anterior surface, near the origin of the pulmonary artery.

  • My brother bought it while he was in Germany, at Tottlingen, near the sources of the Danube, as well as the little ivory-handled knife which I use at table.

  • He unfolded it, and as he chanced to be near the light, he could read it.

  • Madame Magloire," said the Bishop, "place those things as near the fire as possible.

  • A sepulchral monument was erected to his memory on the spot where he was killed, near the conflux of the Euphrates with the little river Aboras.

  • Near the town of Illescas, I ran into a fellow who I knew was an archpicaro by the way he looked.

  • They found a place to stay, near the square of Zocodover, at the house of a lady whose wines I used to announce.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "near the" 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:
    ancient glass; better word; but who; indigo blue; near relation; near the; nearer view; nearly allied; nearly black; nearly cylindrical; nearly equivalent; nearly every; nearly free; nearly horizontal; nearly parallel; nearly related; nearly sessile; nearly smooth; nearly the; nearly the same manner; nearly the same size; nearly white; proper degree; such are; what kinds; white beneath