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Example sentences for: nearer

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

For six years he begged for his food, learned to meditate, and practiced severe self-mortification, but still felt no nearer to understanding life’s suffering.
His reason: He wants to be nearer to some members of his family.
The tone of Elizabeth comes nearer to the nihilistic relish of Jacobeans such as John Ford and John Webster than to the more sorrowful horror of the Elizabethan dramatists Ben Jonson and William Shakespeare.
The big green-and-white boat weaves its way through an ever-changing obstacle course of both large and small craft, and the soaring skyline of Hong Kong Island draws nearer.
Nearer the port, a passage leads to the Museu de Cera (Wax Museum), a tourist trap with a collection of some three hundred realistic wax effigies.