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Sentence example with the word 'nearly'
nearly
about, approaching, by and large, closely, identically, just about, much, nigh, only just, roughly, scarcely, well-nigh
Definition
adv.
(of actions or states) slightly short of or not quite accomplished
Last update: September 6, 2015
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We've been married for
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five years, and we just made love.
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In 1709,
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a century after the poet's death.
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For
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three months, I had never been called to Mrs.
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I
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fell out of mine; it was like a shelf.
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Rochester is
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forty; she is but twenty-five.
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It is
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four oclock in the afternoon, sir.
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"Nearly seven good leagues."
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