How to use "near" in a sentence

As I'm removing these with the knife I push too hard and the blade goes through the skin near my wrist

We travelled near the coasts of Australia and Papua New Guinea

When we re near land, we have to try to escape."

The Nautilus was finally free of the rocks near Papua

The ocean near India has thousands of oysters

But the Nautilus did not go near the surface of the water again for some time

Finally, we came to the warm waters near the Bahamas

Soon, other smaller squid came near the window

We were in the North Sea, near the coast of Norway

There, very near her, was a mouse.

'Perhaps - perhaps you like dogs? There's a very nice little dog near our house

I haven't got any chocolates.' But then she saw a box of chocolates near her feet.

There were some mushrooms near her

She was back in the long room, near the little table! 'I'm small now

Then he put his mouth near to Alice's ear

She was very near Alice

The March Hare and the Mouse were quite near him and he looked at them for ideas

Nobody could get any help to us, and the enemy soldiers were so near that we could hear them talking

She was now playing in a group called The Broken Eggs, and they played two nights each week at a place called the Hodaddy Club near Harvard University

Then, at about nine o'clock, a car stopped near the house and some people got out

I was just walking out again when I saw a little old man who was playing chess with himself at a table near the door

Then I looked up and saw a woman who was standing near him.

He was standing near the fire

Suddenly she sat down near a rock on the beach

The inspector saw a piece of muslin and two small combs that the murderer had put near her feet

The witnesses identified the victim as the woman with the man near Dutfield's Yard

Long Liz was born Elizabeth Gustafsdotter in 1843 near Gothenburg in Sweden

Perhaps it was already there and the murderer dropped the apron near it by chance

When Sarah Lewis passed Christ Church near Dorset Street, the church clock struck 2.30

Joseph Lawende saw a man with a woman near Mitre Square

On December 31st 1888 his body was found in the Thames near Chiswick

He lived at the Victoria Home, a workingmen's lodging house in Commercial Street, right in the middle of the murder area, and very near Goulston Street, where the piece of Eddowes's apron was found

Liz Stride and Kate Eddowes were murdered near Jewish clubs, and the police were very nervous about the possibility of anti-Jewish disturbances

After escaping from Montreuil, Jean Valjean had taken all his money from the bank and buried it in a forest near Montfermeil

He returned the next morning and sat on a bench all day, pretending to read a book, not daring to go near the bench where the girl and her father were sitting

When he felt that they were near him, he looked up and saw that the girl was looking steadily at him with a soft, thoughtful gaze that made him tremble from head to foot.

Then, in the top corner near the ceiling, Marius saw that there was a triangular hole.

Jondrette was on his left, his wife was standing on his right near the door

Marius, who had thrown away his guns and was now without a weapon, began to move towards a barrel of gunpowder he had seen near the door of the wine shop

When you read this, my soul will be very near and smiling at you.

When you read this, my soul will be very near...

The ground floor of the wine shop became a hospital for the wounded, and the bodies of the dead were taken to an alley near the smaller of the two barricades

When a second cannon was moved into position next to the first, they knew that the end was near.

When he arrived, he discovered that the fire had not been lit, and the armchairs had been left near the door

I am scared now because I know that I am near, and in the dark I begin to see large, grey stones standing like giants on the top of the hill

There is no one near to him to hear

"Oh, is that right? Me and Darwin live near there! It looks like we're neighbours!"

The creek is twenty metres from the farm house, and the evening seems to be alive with insects and birds that live in the trees near the green water.

You can get near to them

Then he is near enough, and he looks at the man

He opens the bag for everyone to see, and there is a cry from a woman near to him, followed by another and another

But today it is nearly three, and the case is nowhere near closed.

She stands near to him, and he can see the tears in her eyes and the sad expression on her face, but this time he knows it is not real.

The light switch is not near your door but halfway to the stairs

Then you see Sophie, in her normal place at the top of the stairs, and you see how near the burglar is

Quietly he walks past the pews and stops near the box

And now Brandon is alone, and he feels tired and lost, and he knows that the man in the dark winter coat and black hat is near

He can see nothing because of the trees, but he knows he is very near

He is sure that the man with the gun is near.

Don't shoot unless I can clearly see that there is no one near the target

Sala had soon found out that he lived near her, in an earth apartment

Sala and Cham stepped off the walkway near their apartment blocks, and as they did so, someone knocked Sala's elbow, then held her arm for a second.

"Wild roses used to grow near our house, when I was young," she told Sala

"Your house near the beach?" said Sala

Fifteen minutes later, Sala was dressed in her own clothes again, and was sitting next to Cham near the changing rooms

We have a very nice house near the ocean and there are wild roses in the garden, just as there were when we were young

It was so near that the sound of its waters could always be heard from the house

Rebecca was drowned, you know, in the sea near Manderley.'

Where would I say goodbye to him? In the lounge, with Mrs Van Hopper standing near? I was going and everything was over

You would never know the sea was so near.'

A beautiful old writing-desk stood near the window

The sea was too near here

I never go near the place or that damned cottage

The small table was put near the fire and covered with the white cloth

But I did not go near the sea

Mrs Danvers came close to me and put her face near to mine.

There were some small boats near her.

We were in the hills near Monte Carlo

Would you like to go in? There's an empty seat near the door.'

'I'll soon deal with him if he comes near Manderley again

Then, in my dream, I was alone in the woods near Manderley

He leaves his car near the trees and waits

'We're getting near to him!' says Natalie.

Minutes later, the police car stops near Natalie's car

Of course no amount of amusing talk, no quantity of icy Dom PS 233;rignon could render her unaware of the excitement that was building in the showroom as curtain time drew near

No one was near them, yet suddenly two photos began to rattle violently against the wall, and then both flew off their mountings and clattered to the floor behind the beige, brushed-corduroy sofa.

Standing near the left proscenium pillar, out of the main flow of the party, they nibbled at pieces of cake, talking about Magyck! And then about the law, Charlie and Helen Mainway, Las Vegas real estate - and, by some circuitous route, superhero movies.

You could have taken Danny away for the weekend if you didn't want to be near me

As he drew near, he opened his arms, as if it was the most natural thing in the world for him to hold and comfort her, as if he had held her many times before, and she leaned against him in the same spirit of familiarity

Both intruders stopped near the refrigerator, twelve or fourteen feet from Elliot

Eleven customers were clustered at the end of the long arm of the L, near the entrance, five on stools at the counter, six in the red booths

She went with him to the cash register, which was near the entrance.

They'd exhume it illegally if they could, but they can't get near the cemetery with us watching it

A few evergreen shrubs were clustered near the house, but none was of sufficient size to conceal a man

Maybe it was really pretty near the surface."

The drapes drew open, slid shut, drew open, slid shut, even though no one was near the draw cords.

Danny became excited when he saw her drawing near, and in spite of his terrible condition, he shakily thrust himself into a sitting position, clutching at the bed rails with one frail, trembling hand, eagerly extending his other hand toward her.

In the room near the elevators, people were still talking and laughing, but no one stepped into the corridor.

The young man sat down, and put his wet feet near the fire

A policeman found him in the river near Waterloo station

He wanted to be away from Paris but near skilled workmen who could build things for his experimental so I offered him one of the old workshops of the factory

She took me to a seat near her little square of ground.

One day he is at a street market near the Colosseum

She lives in California, near the ocean.

"Can I buy you a new hat? Do you know a store near here?"

It is early morning on a beach near the cafe.

Third way - is there a third way? My idea was to see if any of the bushes were broken near the vicarage garden wall.'

'But mother sent a note to me, and I arranged to leave the tennis party early and meet her near the vicarage at a quarter past six

That was near the bridge by the gas-works.

A few minutes earlier there had only been three things in my mind: the great size of the night and space and nature, my own weakness and unhappiness, and the near approach of death

They may stay in the pit and kill people who come near them, as they cannot get out of it

One or two adventurous people went into the darkness and crawled quite near the Martians, but they never returned, because now and again a light-ray swept round the common, and the Heat-Ray was ready to follow

I got to my feet at last and, keeping low, managed to get into a wood near Maybury without the machines seeing me

Everyone stood still, stopped by the sudden sound of battle, near us but invisible to us.

At the sight of these strange, quick and terrible creatures, the crowd near the water's edge seemed for a moment to be totally shocked

Then two other shells burst at the same time in the air near its body

Many field-guns, the report said, had been hidden around the country near Horsell Common, and especially between the Woking district and London

My brother walked from Westminster to his room near Regent's Park

While the curate had sat and talked so wildly to me in the flat fields near Walton, and while my brother was watching the refugees pour across Westminster Bridge, the Martians had started to attack again

They did this to the black clouds near us, as we saw in the starlight from the upper window of an empty house

You can see the quiet expectation, the officers watching, the gunners waiting with their horses, the groups of local people standing as near as they were allowed, the ambulances and hospital tents with the burnt and wounded from Weybridge

The men and horses near it were seen running, screaming, falling down

It was clear that he was near death

In the evening many people came hurrying along the road near their stopping-place, escaping from unknown dangers and going in the direction from which my brother had come.

Once again, on the Surrey side, there was black dust that had once been smoke, and some dead bodies - a number of them near the approach to the station.

Outside and very near was the noise from a machine, which started and stopped.

However, at first I hardly noticed the pit and the cylinder, because of the strange shining machine that I saw working there, and the odd creatures that were crawling slowly and painfully across the earth near it.

I was sitting near him, listening hard

I had no regrets about this, but in the stillness of the night, with a sense that God was near, I thought again of every part of our conversation from the time we had first met

'I was buried near the pit the Martians made around their cylinder

In South Kensington the streets were clear of dead people and of black powder, and near there I first heard the howling

Far away, through a space in the trees, I saw a second Martian fighting-machine, as unmoving as the first, standing in the park near the Zoo

Every time the planet Mars comes near to us, I worry that they might try again

We rented a nice house in the country near Norbury

There is an inn and two houses near our house, and a single cottage across the field in front of our house

'Anyway, I told you that there is a cottage near our house

I was not very near, but there was something unnatural and inhuman about the face

'There are no pubs near here

I saw him looking at the church, as we passed near it, so I moved the boat suddenly, and Harris's cap fell into the water

I sat on the river bank near Runnymede

We continued slowly up the river, and stopped for lunch near Monkey Island

But, when we heard the bad words that came from the other boat, we knew we were near people

We towed the boat past Henley and stopped near Wargrave for lunch

We were sitting in a green field near the river

We had left the boat near a swan's nest

The river near Streatley and Goring is excellent for fishing

She has often wished to drive very near to the end of the sands until the tyres of the car touched the water

There was a new inscription written on it: 'Here lies Laura, Lady Glyde...' In the near distance I saw two women with veils over their faces

Now that she was better, my heart began to beat fast again when she was near me, our hands began to shake when they met.

Sometimes, she went with other children and adults to pick coffee on big farms near the Pacific sea

At the time, astronauts had to parachute down when they came back near to Earth

"Come and stand near the fire," says the Sergeant

Sergeant Gonzales and the other soldiers are standing near the fire

Everyone must go near the fire and stay there!" says Zorro

You can put your swords and pistols near the door," says Don Alejandro

They are sitting near the fire.