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Example sentences for: near

How can you use “near” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

On the other side, they have argued that radical, unconventional monetary policy can still be effective--that even if short-term interest rates are near zero, massive monetary expansion can still push up demand.
His car was seen near our house around the time of the poisoning.
Near the end of the eight-day odyssey the toilets were overflowing, and on the seventh day the gunmen announced that in 30 minutes every passenger would be shot.
His urine was then taken for analysis to the Tel Hashomer medical research hospital near Tel Aviv, the paper claimed.
We--my wife, our three children, and I--had been invited to spend ten blissful days in an idyllic white cottage in the middle of a field near a couple of lakes in the depth of Caernarvonshire.