Sentence examples for were near from inspiring English sources

Sometimes, there were near scrapes.

(Mr. Oldenburg and Ms. Muschinski were near divorce).

Three other centers were near centers that were not closing.

People were near to rioting.

"Fantasy books were near and dear to me," she says.

Anyone we were near, hugged us, and we hugged them.

They were near-neighbours.

Physically, the two were near-opposites.

Price and quality comparisons were near-impossible.

My Roman failures were near-erased.

(In fact they were near-perfect approximations).