neared in English

verb
1
come near to (someone or something); approach.
soon the cab would be nearing State Street
synonyms:approachdraw near/nearer toget close/closer toadvance towardclose in onverge onborder onapproach
verb

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Below are sample sentences containing the word "neared" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "neared", or refer to the context using the word "neared" in the English Dictionary.

1. We cheered as he neared the finish line.

2. The crisis neared a critical point last week.

3. As half time neared, Hardyman almost scored twice.

4. As we neared the summit, we were tiring fast.

5. As we neared the center, we saw the pendulum clearly.

6. Weir missed his footing as they neared the door.

7. 19 The land flattened out as we neared the coast.

8. As Noah neared his 600th year, he dealt with losses.

9. As soon as the shark neared the electrodes, it viciously attacked them.

10. As she neared the door, Amy felt a growing sense of unease.

11. But as the centennial neared, he approached Fred with quite a secular proposition.

12. When Joseph finally neared Dothan, his brothers saw him coming from a distance.

13. As the system neared the Bay of Campeche, convection quickly developed around the low.

14. 10 She neared the crest of a hillock and was soon out of sight.

15. As the winter of 986 C.E. neared, he returned to Iceland with a full cargo.

16. 13 She neared the 22 crest of a hillock and was soon out of sight.

17. As the typhoon neared the coastline of Philippines, the entire nation was put on red alert.

18. The islands became more self-consciously Greek as the 19th century, the century of romantic nationalism, neared.

19. As the exhibition neared readiness, it appeared that Basquiat seemed most likely to survive this triage process.

20. 7 As the Gentile Times neared their end, newspapers were used to publish Bible sermons delivered by Brother Russell.

21. Synonyms for Approached include advanced, came, come, neared, closed, came closer, come closer, drew close, drawn close and drew closer

22. In February 1940, negotiations neared conclusion, but Germany demanded (by Soviet assessment) unfavourably high prices for their goods.

23. It was less than satisfying; and yet as his due date neared he kept on, sometimes all night.

24. As I neared my 12th birthday, there were several requirements to be completed before I could graduate from Primary.

25. As we neared the Island, it could be seen that the wharf was ablaze with lights, and milling with horsemen.

26. As each culture neared the end of its organic life cycle the creative stage was finished and the atrophying civilization stage began.

27. White of Ticonderoga Securities could justifiably be unnerved by the example of Microsoft (MSFT) at the end of 1999 as the tech boom neared its peak.

28. The Wide Awakes fully supported their party's choice of the "Rail Splitter," and as the election neared, their numbers continued to grow

29. I asked Jenna this question early this morning as we neared the end of a fun but unfruitful jaunt to a proven wood Blewit patch

30. As the system neared the Chinese coast, China's meteorological authority issued a yellow alert and was predicting heavy to very heavy rainfall in parts of the Sichuan Basin.

31. As The Voice’s Season 20 Blind Auditions neared their conclusion Monday evening, Blake Shelton jokingly implied to a contestant who’d Auditioned with a Maroon 5 song that he shouldn’t join

32. Nonetheless, as the International Day for the Abolishment of Slavery neared, the Authority sent letters to the IDF, the Civil Service and the Kibbutzim Movement, recommending that they hold informational activities concerning trafficking in women.

33. As the body neared the ground (forest), the bright body seemed to smudge, and then turned into a giant billow of black smoke, and a loud knocking (not thunder) was heard as if large stones were falling, or artillery was fired.

34. First, Randall Hankla presented an interesting talk on the Convention of 1833 and what it meant, then as we neared closing time, long-time Cannoneering friends James L Price and Jean Price dropped by to visit before heading home to …

35. Antinuclear Hiroshima 1945, Fukushima 2011, – Japan’s nuclear horrors – theme for March 21 As World War 2 neared its end, with 20 million Russian soldiers killed, fighting with the Allies against Hitler, America’s government was already planning its military superiority over Russia.

36. God wrote the 10 Commandments on stone tablets and gave them Moses to share with all the Israelites soon after they left captivity in Egypt (Exodus 20:1-26).Moses reiterated them 40 years later in Deuteronomy 5:1-22 as the Israelites neared the Promised Land.