The John Swaney School occupies a twenty-four acre campus, lying a mile and a half from thenearest village, and ten miles from the nearest town.
He jumped up as rapidly as Mark sprang to his feet, for just then there came, apparently not from very far off, so terrible a roar that the major ran to the nearest gun, examined the loading, and then stood with the weapon cocked.
Then you are right, Gregory, and this is the nearest way home.
We must explore it some time, and if this is the nearest way to fetch cargo we'd better find it.
In her own frank way, scorning all circumlocution, she went at once to the subject nearest their hearts.
I speak of that which lies nearest my heart," said the empress, warmly.
When you were left a widow you turned to me, as your nearest relative, for assistance.
First, that which lay in my head, and then that which was nearest my heart.
Wilhelm was facing von Bohlen, and took hold of a button of his silver-braided Hussar jacket, the button nearest the throat.
When the bell rings, whoever isnearest answers and calls the person who is wanted.
Bill had never driven to Lawton, the town nearest the Post.
I got up at 8, and we started directly in heavy rain for Gross Eplingen, two miles on our way, where the nearest Catholic church was.
It is the nearest approach to it which lies in your power.
And he whose arrow nearest hit 145 His heart, as he did stand, They'd judge him for to be right heire, And fit to have the land.
With careful deliberation he took aim, and fired at the animal nearest to us.
Follow me in single file; when I halt, come up into line; let each single out the man nearestto him, and when I hold up my hand spring like wild-cats.
We had to keep a sharp lookout, and once or twice discharged our rifles in the direction of the nearest sounds, not in the expectation of hitting any of the animals, but for the purpose of scaring them away.
He sprang up, rushed at the one nearest him, and throwing out his foot as he passed, tripped him up.
From the moment I set eyes on the negro nearest to me, my blood began to boil.
They would then find the copious springs of Tadmor the nearest and most convenient to make for; and in their direct route from the north of India along the Euphrates.
Historians relate, that he was scarcely on the throne before he stained it with the blood of his nearest relatives.
The one nearest is the figure of a warrior, who appears as having fallen wounded to the ground.
The only traces of deterioration are in the statues at the base of the column, which has been produced by the humidity undermining the parts most in relief, or nearest to the ground.
The nearest parallel Mr. Halifax could think of, was that of the temple of Baal, destroyed by Jehu, and converted into a draught-house.
The most extensive and highly ornamented are nearest to the base; those of smaller dimensions, and less decorated, occupy the middle; and the most rude and simple are situated in the upper parts.
The smallest children are nearest to God, as the smallest planets are nearest the sun.
Truth is the shortest and nearest way to our end, carrying us thither in a straight line.
The very nearest approach to domestic happiness on earth is in the cultivation on both sides of absolute unselfishness.
Woman, popularly thought to be a sieve with secrets, will crush a worry down, grapple silently and fight with it, nor ever let her very nearest know that it is there.
Logic still permits one to avoid Libel without confessing Treachery, and I am little likely to "attack" my own profession or two others from which I draw some of my nearest friends.
Under one of the nearest elms you may descry a square tomb, topped with an urn.
That is thenearest he ever gets to physical activity.
Mr. Lighton turned a rich, ripe tan colour, the nearest approach to a flush of rage that his skin was capable of attaining.
Signs appeared upon the street, "Safe Cellars Here," and when the bombardment began, people would dash for the nearest shelter and wait until the storm was over.
The nearest town where provisions can be obtained lies six miles below, at the mouth of the river, and it is very little one can carry on one's back.
Upon her return she announced that a load of live-stock from southern France would soon arrive at the nearest railroad station, five miles away.
To his eternal credit let it be said that he at once took it to the nearest police station.
The office of the upper classes, then, as a body, is to keep order among their inferiors, and raise them always to the nearest level with themselves of which those inferiors are capable.
If they refused to swear or disobeyed the law, they were to be put in the stocks for three days or more and then sent to the nearest jail till they should agree to serve as required.
He was not the nearest heir to the throne, but acted as the representative of the Lancastrian line, and by his marriage with the lady who represented the claim of the York family joined the two contending factions.
The Britons were a Celtic people related to the inhabitants of that part of the Continent of Europe which lies nearest to Britain.
Meanwhile, Vivie comes in, followed by Frank, who collapses into the nearestchair with an air of extreme exhaustion.
He hangs the shawl on the nearest chair, and sits down].
When the earth is nearest the sun she is in her perihelion; and in her aphelion at the farthest point.
As to the nearest distance at which it would pass her, that must be the result of two forces, attraction and repulsion, affecting its motion.
Speaking of the moon, she is nearest to the earth in her perigee, and farthest from it in her apogee.
But the corvette had no proper machinery, which must be both fixed and powerful; so it was resolved that they should put in at the nearest port, and give information to the Gun Club of the projectile's fall.
My tormentor came with me, and never shall I forget his harsh, jeering cries whilst I swam to the nearest alders, and even whilst I made my slow way through the sparse thorns that ran up to the furze about the earth.
Partly by swimming, but chiefly by the aid of the current, I succeeded in reaching the nearest islet of the little archipelago that studded the rippled expanse.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "nearest" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: adjacent; immediate; intimate; next; present
