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Example sentences for "near them"

  • Near them is a pieman, who is mightily rejoiced at this roguery; while a soldier, who is fleering in his face, slily steals the pies he carries on his head.

  • Near them is a cooper inspecting a vessel that had been reported leaky, and must speedily be filled with home-brewed ale for the gratification of the populace.

  • At the noise of horses so near them, Emmeline looked up, and seeing Lord Montreville, again struggled, but without success, to disengage her hand.

  • One instinctively trembles for those lambs, the lords, with such a "panther" near them.

  • For my part, I don't see why Protestants want to go near them at all!

  • Scarcely were they gone when a door, which had been standing ajar, near them, was opened wide, and disclosed the keen visage of Master Potts.

  • Near them stood a large armoury, likewise of oak, and sculptured with the ensigns of Whalley Abbey, proving it had once belonged to that establishment.

  • In the back-ground, several men caught in a net; near them, Death with a hound pursuing three persons who are about to be intercepted by a net spread between two trees.

  • On the top of the arched cavern, a group of seven persons, one of whom, a female, points to the interior of an urn; near them a flying angel holding a blank shield of arms.

  • And, to tell you the truth, I was never yet blamed by one side as not sufficiently pleasing them; but I was blamed also by the contrary side, for coming so near them: and I had not wit enough to know which party of the accusers was the wiser.

  • Turn your fear of the instruments of the devil into pity and compassion to men in such lamentable misery; and pray for them as Christ and Stephen did: foresee now the misery that is near them.

  • They were agreeably disappointed about this; for, when morning dawned, their eyes were gratified by the sight of two large covered wagons outspanned upon the plain, with several oxen and horses grazing near them.

  • Near them was a grove of oleander bushes, loaded with beautiful blossoms.

  • Near them was a small "motte" of the Nerium oleander, a shrub about twelve feet high, loaded with beautiful blossoms.

  • I came as near them undiscovered as I could, and then before any of them saw me, I called aloud to them in Spanish, What are ye gentlemen?

  • I was curious to see the sable skins they catched; but I could never speak with any of them; for they durst not come near us; neither durst we straggle from our company to go near them.

  • Certain it is that if all the infected persons were effectually shut in, no sound person could have been infected by them, because they could not have come near them.

  • Near them sat a rider on a buckskin horse, Bent Smith on Golden.

  • They are not to be dealt with like Englishmen; and if we go near them, they will only try to get hold of our raft.

  • He is not likely to remember his old haunts, or the masters who owned him, or I should not have brought him so near them again.

  • Edward and Ellen were for some time perfectly unconscious that they were objects of the most earnest, penetrating scrutiny of a lady, leaning on the arm of a young and handsome man in regimentals, near them.

  • After a moment it was observed that only those with the large horns were taking part in this exercise, while the others were browsing quietly near them.

  • Each took a two-hours' turn as sentinel until the morning broke, which put an end to their fears, as no enemy appeared to be near them.

  • Ruby and the smith were looking out at the doorway at the time, and both instinctively grasped the woodwork near them, expecting every instant that the whole structure would be carried away; but it stood fast.

  • Perhaps this was the reason that the sea-gulls flew so near them, and gave forth an occasional and very melancholy cry, as if of complaint at the changed appearance of things.

  • The lightkeepers, high up in the apartments in their wild home, knew nothing and heard nothing of all that had passed so near them.

  • Of this lower end of the lake they happened to be most jealous; for a brood of pintail ducks, very rare I believe in England, had been hatched here this summer, and no one was allowed to go near them.

  • Near them was a rasped iron plane working along a metal bed or groove, with a solid T piece, and a winch to adjust it.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "near them" 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:
    but upon; clean saucepan; curiously enough; general debility; hotel butter; hundred head; intimate friend; issue forth; long trail; near enough; near relative; near unto; nearer view; nearly circular; nearly horizontal; nearly obsolete; nearly parallel; nearly pure; nearly round; nearly spherical; nearly square; nearly straight; nearly the; nearly uniform; nearly white; neither good nor evil