Sentence examples for nearest thing that from inspiring English sources

"It was the nearest thing that passed as a happening boutique in Hounslow when I was in my early teens," Franklin adds.

It is the nearest thing that exists to a world policeman, but it must operate without a world police force, a world judiciary or a proper world system of law.

"Liberalism is the nearest thing that Judith has to a religion.

It is also, along with Chesterton's "The Napoleon of Notting Hill," the nearest thing that this masterly writer wrote to a masterpiece.

The death last year of Steve Jobs, Apple's monarch, robbed the technology world of the nearest thing that it had to royalty.

"The act of cooking is an escape from consciousness," he writes, "the nearest thing that the nonspiritual modern man and woman have to Zen meditation".

It was also a near thing that he wasn't dealt away by New England.

I can't even go near things that rhyme with Patricia Clarkson anymore.

Maybe a better goal is to stay with and near the thing that moves slowly, begrudgingly, eventually changing.

The nearest thing to that came in the finals of 2004, when the No. 1, Woods, defeated the No. 3, Davis Love, 3 and 2. Woods is on a mission.

The nearest thing to that among the shortlisted proposals was Jeremy Deller's The Spoils of War (Memorial for an unknown civilian), in which a burnt-out car from Iraq was to have been left to rust on the plinth.