Sentence examples for near from high-quality English sources.

• Author of The Ancient Near East and others.

• Many of these protests took place near the bridges and roads near university campuses.

• Near Sheerness, a train struck a fence that had been blown on to the line, while a tree blocked the line near Deal.

• His financial-disclosure form lists honorary memberships in four country clubs—near Chicago, near Indianapolis, near Washington, and in Florida.

• Near the cloud tops, the winds blow east-west in zones, as on Jupiter, Saturn, and Uranus.

• Air Education and Training Command (AETC) operates out of Randolph AFB, near San Antonio, Tex.

• Within a year two more were found: (617) Patroclus, located near L5, and (624) Hektor, near L4.

• Among the important mines are the Fort Knox and Pogo gold mines near Fairbanks and the Red Dog zinc mine near Kotzebue.

Use near in a sentence.

• Among the important mines are the Fort Knox and Pogo gold mines near Fairbanks and the Red Dog zinc mine near Kotzebue.

• The closure – between junctions 22 near Saddleworth and 24 near Huddersfield and Halifax – is now expected to remain in place for much of the morning, Highways England has said.

• On Monday, the National Park Service is to open Yellowstone’s three main Montana portals: the west entrance (near West Yellowstone), north entrance (near Gardiner) and northeast entrance (near Cooke City).

• Many megalithic sites have been connected in folklore with the Devil, among them the Devil’s Quoits near Oxford; the Devil’s Bed and Bolster, near Frome in Somerset; the Devil’s Den near Avebury; and the Devil’s Arrows in Yorkshire.

• The Bronze Age is represented by round burial mounds known as bell barrows at various sites near Treyford and Worthing, and there are Iron Age hill forts at the Trundle near Goodwood, at Cissbury, and at the Caburn Mount near Lewes.

• A recently published Congressional Research Service document explains that the SSN(X) will be designed to "counter the emerging threat posed by near peer adversary competition for undersea supremacy," with more of an emphasis on advanced near-peer threats.

• Video GPS coordinates verified Parler-users near congressional offices and stairwells, in hallways leading to the House and Senate chambers, in the Rotunda, and near leadership offices or the press gallery, depending on the floor, according to Gizmodo's analysis.

• In general, coal can be considered a hydrogen-deficient hydrocarbon with a hydrogen-to-carbon ratio near 0.8, as compared with a liquid hydrocarbons ratio near 2 (for propane, ethane, butane, and other forms of natural gas) and a gaseous hydrocarbons ratio near 4 (for gasoline).

near sentence examples

• A hurricane warning was posted for the Florida coast from near Jupiter to near Titusville, indicating the area that forecasters see as most likely to experience hurricane-force winds on Monday; a storm surge warning was posted from Lantana, near Boca Raton, to near Titusville.

• Catacombs are found all over the Mediterranean world: in Malta, near the ancient capital of the island; in Sicily, near Taormina, Syracuse, and elsewhere; in Egypt, near Alexandria and Cairo; in Lebanon, near Sidon (now Ṣaydā); and at many places in Italy, especially around Naples and in ancient Etruria.

• Among the most important of those are Sariska National Park (established 1955), near Alwar in the northeast; Desert National Park (1980), near Jaisalmer in western Rajasthan; and Keoladeo Ghana National Park (1981), in the eastern part of the state near Bharatpur—the latter designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1985.

• Amazon hascreated more than 18,000 permanent jobs in nine modern logistics centers: in Sady (near Poznań), Sosnowiec, Kołbaskowo (near Szczecin), two facilities in Bielany Wrocławskie, Pawlikowice (near Łódź), Łódź, Okmiany (near Bolesławiec) and Gliwice, as well as in the Amazon Web Services office and Amazon Technology Development Center in Gdańsk, which provide innovative solutions to support Amazon products and services worldwide, including Alexa voice solutions.