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Example sentences for "nearmost"

Lexicographically close words:
nearer; nearest; nearhand; nearing; nearly; nearness; nears; nearsighted; neas; neat
  1. The rich wood that surrounds the castellated hill clothes a precipitous descent to the water's edge, and, with other sylvan decorations of Newton park, forms the nearmost boundary of the vale.

  2. The town of Bualt occupies a spot on the nearmost side of the vale, overhanging the pride of Welch rivers; and beyond its opposite hilly boundary, a majestic outline of distant mountains defines the horizon.

  3. At length, in fact directly the tramp had passed the limit of territorial waters, the peremptory hail to stop instantly came from the nearmost German torpedo-boat, which promptly swung out of station and slowed down.

  4. Unheard and unseen he gained the remote side of the car, then working round the front he leapt upon the nearmost of the spies.

  5. With lowered heads they charged straight for the nearmost of the waterside idlers.

  6. Quite under the impression that the nearmost German pill-boxes were lightly held, the New Zealanders in the advance posts were afterwards surprised to learn that they had been within a few yards of hundreds of picked German troops.

  7. The second-line German trenches formed the nearmost limit of ground practically unaffected by the explosion of the great mine.

  8. Another thing Peter noticed was that the nearmost of the houses on the canal side of the street was separated from the quay by a supplementary waterway that burrowed under the road.

  9. All in that second Blake and his nearmost sprang to their feet and flung themselves forward straight for the startled convoy.

  10. Like a kestrel the battleplane dived towards the nearmost of her opponents.

  11. The first, striking the ground close to the edge of the clearing, exploded with terrific violence, felling huge trees like ninepins and literally pulverising the nearmost shed.

  12. Between the threshold and the nearmost trees there was a distance of roughly ninety feet, the trees themselves exceeding a hundred and twenty feet in height.

  13. Sergeant O'Rafferty, springing to the after machine-gun, swung the weapon upon the nearmost of the German troops.

  14. The misty outlines of the nearmost biplanes could be just discerned as they rose swiftly and steadily above the invisible destroyers.

  15. Stealthily and in silence the sportsmen approached the nearmost patch of cover.

  16. At intervals the searchlights of the nearmost station crossed those of the one more remote, while in turn these effected a luminous exchange with rays still further away.

  17. Others, having provided themselves with a supply of large stones, hurled them across the intervening barrier at the nearmost of their assailants.

  18. The men "gave way", and the boat sped towards the nearmost destroyer.

  19. It was now towards Milos, the nearmost of these islands, that a small felucca-rigged craft was making.

  20. Almost miraculously the flames had failed to gain a hold upon the scrub on the nearmost bank.

  21. Already the Haussas were astride the first trench and interlocked with the nearmost of their foes, the while a German machine gun was playing on the combatants with the delightful impartiality that a Hun displays to save his own hide.

  22. Grasping the nearmost man he turned him over on his back.

  23. Wherever one of the huge shells struck the ground it burst and tore a deep pit, into which, as often as not, the nearmost gun and its mountings promptly tumbled.

  24. By this time the mist had increased; the nearmost British destroyer was just visible.

  25. Arethusa," and the invitation was taken up by others, while the crews of the light-cruisers and the nearmost destroyers hastened to lower boats to assist in the errand of mercy.

  26. Away on the starboard hand was a seemingly interminable range of frowning cliffs, the nearmost being but two or three miles distant.

  27. Acting Sub-lieutenant Sefton brought his binoculars to bear upon the nearmost trawler.

  28. A couple of miles separated her from the nearmost of the brown-sailed boats, whose dark canvas showed up distinctly in the slanting rays of the moon.

  29. He, too, had succeeded in reaching a lifebuoy thrown by the nearmost destroyer.

  30. Only two guns of the Warrior were now replying to the hostile fire, barking slowly, yet resolutely, as they sent their projectiles hurtling through the air at the nearmost of the assailants, now but 3500 yards distant.

  31. The nearmost of the cordon ran to support the fellow who had raised the alarm.

  32. Standing upright upon the narrow metal track Hamerton mentally measured the distance to the nearmost upright rod.

  33. The nearmost portion of her aluminium envelope was now within thirty yards of Hamerton's window.


  34. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "nearmost" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.