As it nears its mouth the Gaspereau changes its aspect.
I refer to the fact of the expulsion of gaseous matter out of the head of a comet as it nears the sun, which expulsion will be dealt with in the article on "Parts of a Comet.
The setting sun, as it nears the horizon-line of the sea, appears to be assuming a distinctly oblong shape.
It is slowly sinking into a purple haze, and becomes more and more oblong as it nears the sea.
As the centernears the snow comes ever faster and larger, but not large, flakes are mixed with the original-sized flakes.
Beneath this vast drift of air, which increases in velocity as it nears the pole, is an undertow from two to three miles thick.
As the rain nears the air gets moister, the bugs and the birds fly lower.
As the black cloud with the swaying funnel nears a roaring is heard.
They have gone, likely, to the Lake of High Hope, for it nears the time of transit to a Higher Land.
With that he nears the door: a frosty rime Is branching over it, and drifts are deep Against the wall.
But whate'er befall, She sleepeth; then he nears her, and behold He lays a hand on hers, and it is cold.
The darkness becomes more dense, and fears increase as it nears the end.
This way shines more and more, brighter and brighter, as it nears the end.
Let him never fall down in despair at dangers and sorrows at a distance; they may be harmless, like Bunyan’s stone lions, when he nears them.
I imagine they have changed the position of some, at least, of their guns, and will knock that bridge to smithereens again just as soon as it nears completion.
If she nearsthe quay there will be a riot, and perhaps thousands of lives lost.
As she nears it, the music comes to her with fuller distinctness, and sends the heart-throbs following one another in happy, swift succession.
The Emperor nears his realm, and reaching now The city of Valterne sacked by Rollànd And left in ruins, which thereafter lay A hundred years a desert; there he waits For news of Ganelon, and tribute due By the great land of Spain.
As he nears them, he sees the elder woman hurriedly pressing her daughter's arm to warn her of his approach, and Elizabeth obediently lifts her face.
Jim sees how increasingly, how horribly difficult of relation is the tale as it nears its catastrophe; but he is quite incapable of helping her.
But the boat is bearing down upon them--she nears them.
The church tower offers a landmark by which all pilots can steer, keeping it more or less to the right hand of the bows, and allowing for the increase of its parallax as the boat nears her goal.
It bumps like blazes and swerves like sin When it nears a bar or passes an inn; It jerks like the tail of a crazy kite When a brewery looms on the left or right.
When it nears The Coop or The Rooters' Rest It bucks as a mustang bucks out West.
Look how the lark soars upward and is gone, Turning a spirit as he nears the sky!
Talking of things which cannot be mentioned save in such exalted company, Dante walks on with them until he nears a castle girdled with sevenfold ramparts and moat.
At sunrise a vessel nears the shore, upon which they embark to get out of reach of the wrath of the Count of Biaucaire.
As it nears Shrewsbury, the Severn quits for a time the hill-country, though it is only near the waterside that the land is distinctly a plain.
As one nears Lea from the west the lofty spurs of the mountain of Ngalau-levu reach the coast, and basic tuffs and agglomerates prevail.
As one nears the highest point the crest becomes very narrow, between 15 and 20 feet across; and on either side there is apparently a drop of several hundred feet.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "nears" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
