Sentence examples for and getting near from inspiring English sources

I know somebody's swinging on the rope and getting near the tree.

He's participated in about half a dozen Kaggle competitions, winning first place in one and getting near the top in others.

BILL McGUIRE: You'd start seeing bigger earthquakes, you may see parts of Yellowstone uplifting as magma intrudes and gets nearer and nearer the surface.

But in the presence of a third star, this timing speeds up and slows down as the pair orbits its mate and gets nearer and farther from Earth.

For example: imagine that you're afraid of flying, and even getting near planes makes you nervous.

From then on in, the course gets bloodier and bloodier, with Detective Gunderson, largely through intuition and luck, getting nearer and nearer to a solution.

Using a swift behind-the-back dribble, Davis shook Sprewell and got near the rim.

Where else can you travel the whole of Latin America and the Caribbean in one place, and get near year-round sunshine to boot?

You can take your family and get near the athletes, whether it's the women soccer players or Marion Jones signing autographs until everyone leaves".

Yet between the first Russian stint and the second he twice agreed to carry enough explosives, and get near enough to Adolf Hitler, to kill him.Related topics Adolf HitlerIt was not, he said, the business of soldiers to think too much.

An unidentified man caught up with baby in the middle of a large expanse of dried-out grass, and got near enough to stroke its back — but as soon as he did, baby bolted off, and the chase began anew.