Sentence examples for near written from inspiring English sources

He noted that "they've damn near written a perfect pop song.

The republic has been declining for a long time – "The ditch is nearer," wrote Lowell in 1964.

Due out this fall via Faber & Faber, the London publishing house describes the text as a "utopian costume drama, set in the near future, written in the recent past".

"Imagine the near future," writes Shane Hegarty in a perceptive piece in the Irish Times.

"Obviously AMD is likely to trade up and Intel is likely to trade down for the near term," wrote Merrill Lynch analyst Joe Osha in a research note.

The Scots poet, Robert Burns (1759 96), a near contemporary, wrote a number of works celebrating the tragic romanticism of the Jacobite cause.

"William adores his little brother and spends the entire time swamping Harry with an endless supply of hugs and kisses, hardly letting the parents near!" she wrote.

"The most remarkable fact about human genomic engineering today is not how far out of reach it is, but how perilously, tantalizingly near," Mukherjee writes.

But the sheer equilibrium of his bars elevates him to near-greatness," wrote Ben Beaumont-Thomas in the Guardian.

"Paolo, I'm on Skiathos (in Greece) with my girlfriend and it's nearing 4am," writes Luke Mersey.

After his departure from King Features, Pegler was for the first time since the First World War without hard, near-daily writing assignments.