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Sentence Examples We were friends, good friends, but the time was drawing nigh when I had to lay my cards on the table. Forbidden were men to draw nigh the plant, yet weaker were their still young and innocent minds to words of deception. The third, John, hasn't seen the other two for nigh on 20 years, having started a family and taken on the responsibilities that go with it. Because of the haphazard way events are patchworked together, it's nigh onto impossible to follow the flow of the season. They range from the poor state of the roads to sheer recklessness on the part of some drivers who have nigh on abandoned all road safety rules. Yes, the logistics of accommodating and transporting the world's best athletes for nigh on a month will mean disruption on a massive scale. We spent a half an hour in the dealership, which is nigh unto an eternity when you have a small child. Instead, with the match already nigh on a 7,000 sell-out, everywhere they look the stars will be on the other side of the field. Trust me, this will be something that will be nigh unto impossible to break. It permeates every corner of Northern Irish society, often unseen but nigh impossible to evade. Thus, my look and in depth coverage of Roman cuisine draws nigh to a close. But with Election Day drawing nigh once more, guess who is promising what once again? Many and varied are the causes of homelessness and to try to document them in such a short space would be nigh on impossible. They leak, they give the wine a plastic flavour, they are nigh on impossible to remove with a cork screw when you're squiffy. Vapor phase coatings differ from platings in that it is well nigh impossible to plate aluminum or aluminum alloys from an aqueous bath. Like Pandora's box, once opened, it is going to be well nigh impossible to put back the troubles and close down the lid. This prevailing linguistic approach to the Classics meant that the study of Ancient History was well nigh ignored in the Public Schools. They recognized that getting the nuclear genie back in the bottle was nigh impossible. The wooden floor beneath Lord Anuru began to twist and distort, as well as the walls and the ceiling which was now nigh gone. The time was barely ten o'clock at night, but chilly gusts of wind with a taste of rain in them had well nigh depeopled the streets. Show More Sentences The end is nigh for the Savoy in Broad Green as the bulldozers prepare to demolish the 1930s cinema to make way for a new housing development. After the initial shock and awe passes, commanding his respect will be nigh unto impossible. I think it is nigh on impossible to remove religious teaching from the classroom. The single-player missions are frantic and the multiplayer clashes online both frenetic and nigh on impossible to survive. With all deference to the bigger issues, it is nigh on impossible to quantify the potential economic effects of these events. Look at Northern Ireland, he suggested, where IRA weapons caches had eluded detection for nigh on 30 years. Schleiermacher is already famous for his Satie interpretations and he gives well nigh definitive accounts of the music on disc. In this peculiarly modern mood of social pessimism, the end is believed to be nigh but never comes. Chancellor Schroeder is badly winged now and facing a well nigh impossible task to get re-elected. The wicked mix of an acerbic tongue and a winning smile means holding grudges is nigh impossible. So perhaps you'd be so very kind as to be repeating now the tale you and he have been telling for nigh on six months? The young man had been waiting for well nigh a quarter of an hour while his father ignored him. The end of the world seemed nigh and I fancy I saw the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse in the starting stalls. Writing one novel must be taxing, but writing a novel within a novel within a novel within a novel must be nigh on impossible. This February the visitor tally is nigh seven thousand, a more than threefold increase of which I'm mighty proud. I've been totally drained of energy, and this morning, for instance, I found it nigh on impossible to get myself out of bed. The limestone dust in the air coats our throats and drives us nigh mad with need for a drink. He wrote to me a twelvemonth since, two months after his banishment, and told me that he lived in the forest nigh eleven miles east from here. This reviewer sadly is not, so conveying more than two-and-a-half hours of pure joy into 250 words is nigh on impossible. It's nigh impossible for me to approach this in an objective and unbiased manner. Show More Sentences I had known him for nigh on forty years, known him too for the great character that he was, the true gentleman, the sportsman supreme. In terms of musicals, he has been there for nigh on 20 years, colonising foreign cities with his chorus lines. Only one girl had escaped the powerful net of her authority in her fifty year career, and that had been well nigh twenty years ago. It is to my shame, then, to tell you that one fair morning, a ship drew nigh in the banner of the horizon. Yet this is at best difficult, if not nigh impossible, to fully reconcile with environmental protection and social justice. It has used that rage mostly effectively for nigh on 50 years now, since Barry Goldwater. And it came to pass, when the Philistine arose, and came and drew nigh to meet David, that David hasted, and ran toward the army to meet the Philistine. Groups such as the Diggers and the Levellers believed that after the execution of Charles I, a biblical monarchy was nigh and that Jesus would be the king. The time is nigh for the resurrection of these long-forgotten principles. Once the company had stopped fiddling about with three-wheelers and converted post office vans, it developed a recipe that served it well for nigh on 30 years. The kitchen door was on one of those springs to prevent it slamming shut, as a result of which it was well nigh impossible to close it with any kind of speed. I spent nigh on two years slobbering over him, and got nowhere. For nigh on 47 years, Kitty has been part of the post office structure. Heaven knows why this has been a search item for nigh on 18 months now. The only thing close to getting the media coverage that race relations has been getting for nigh on two months was what to do about superannuation. The drifting snow obliterated lesser landmarks and covered the boundaries of roads and ditches with a covering several feet thick, making normal travel nigh on impossible. As the new year draws nigh, this is a good time to show your appreciation for those who provided great service with a cash gift or small present. For nigh on 20 years, he has held the nationalist standard in the threshing rooms and bars of the STUC all over the city. For us to disentangle the persecution incidents from the rest is nigh on impossible without a body. You'd reckon, at first glance, that Rupert Murdoch's own game of thrones was well nigh over. Show More Sentences Since starting this project, my life has been opening up in well nigh miraculous ways. After all, it is nigh on impossible to prove that something is not the case and far easier to prove that something is the case. Several times I have found myself in dangerous situations where I was facing firearms and knew the end might be nigh. Indeed, the really threatening alternative is a nigh hopeless guerrilla war. Abortion is such a standard gynaecological practice that it is nigh impossible to specialise in that field and refuse to carry out abortions. Adequate information can be difficult or even well nigh impossible to carry out in the context of a constant work overload. Getting the politics right is well nigh impossible in present circumstances. The Court accepted that the so-called one way encoding of personal information could be carried out with a degree of certainty making decoding well nigh impossible. With more power than most players, she dictates rallies and though her radar can go astray from time to time, when it is set right, she is nigh unbeatable, especially on grass. Incidentally all 56 members of this field are wearing green skullcaps, which might make identifying who is doing what in the swim nigh on impossible. At the time of signing the agreement, employers and union bosses insisted widely on the value of the social partnership that has reigned in the watch industry for nigh on 70 years. Meanwhile golden oldie Kurt, 51, will finally make an honest woman of Goldie, 57, after an on-off relationship of nigh on 20 years. After turning 80 in February, my wee dad Bobby Harvey has proven nigh on impossible to pin down as he's galavanting up and down the country. In thoroughfares nigh the docks, any considerable seaport will frequently offer to view the queerest looking nondescripts from foreign parts. I have cried for many friends who have died in pain and agony from untreated illnesses as there was no medical care, and I have mourned the loss of friends who were secretly killed in the nigh because they were too stubborn. We pulled every string we could for nigh on a year and a half. A GROOM whose wedding was nearly banned over a stag night bust-up has claimed the court case had made his nigh cl cca ca marriage stronger. The German Neue Kunst Gallery presented a painter who is obsessed with paper bags, his first artistic medium with which he has been working for nigh on 20 years. People were convinced that the end of a corrupted world was nigh. I thought now the jig was mighty nigh up with me, but I determined to keep a stiff upper lip. Show More Sentences And yet through that same flitch of bacon, He in a sack was well nigh taken By the quickhanded farmer's wife, And barely came off with his life. It was nigh noon, and we had stopped at the cabin to unsaddle and bait. I am a comparative youngster in Fandom, having been a fake-fan for nigh unto 2 years I cannot say that I remember the first issues of any of the above-mentioned editor's mags. They went on very well with their work until it was nigh done, when there came the second epistle to Noah's fresh, and away went their mill, shot, lock, and barrel. By these and many histories more, it is most evident, that the more nigh salvation and deliverance approach, the more vehement is temptation and trouble. Examples from Classical Literature Atter us all sot free I just changed my name to 'tines' an' dats what I been goin' by for nigh on to ninety years. He is nigh ragged, and takes it to heart that I should go in brocaded satin. There's no air, and I noticed the binnacle alight, so it must have been nigh dark under that funnel cloud. It was Alischar, and smaragdine had nigh swooned away with the joy of beholding him. Just at this moment, Robert was well nigh the victim of his own imprudence. They tanked her cruel they did, and kept her under water till she was nigh gone. It wuz, as nigh as I could calkerlate, about a hour and three-quarters long. Mighty nigh all de chillun had a little teency bag of asafetida, on a string 'round they necks, to keep off diseases. The cause of giving the chariot to Fiacc was that a chafer had gnawed his leg, so that death was nigh unto him. The forecastle was lumbered with ship's chandlery, the hold nigh full of rice, the lazarette crowded with the teas and silks. And when the kingdom of God comes nigh to men, human responsibility must be enlarged in commensuration with its blessings. Look hyeah, gal, don't you tell me dat's scripter, an' me been a-settin' undah de scripter fu' nigh onto sixty yeah. I always runned out and tried to see 'em, but old as I is, nigh 86, I ain't never seed no scritch owl. Keep the rake, says the haymaker, as nigh the scythe as you can, and the cart as nigh the rake. Many of them had staffs, and all were bent nigh double under their burdens. It is life drawing nigh to life, person to person, the human to human, that conquers death. Something broke and the nigh leader swung around until he was at right angles with his team-mate. I left her for dead, and if there had been a limekiln as nigh her as there is now nigh you, she shouldn't have come to life again. They got theirselves married and went off, and he was well nigh as old as me. But according to the balladist his career, on one occasion, had well nigh terminated disastrously. Show More Sentences They was ashore nigh on a week, and us standing off and on in the old walrus. And he's put nigh every cent he's got, all peke Latham left him, into this schooner. It tuk me nigh a hour to make a hole, so that I ked git my head abovePg 143 the edge, an' see what the neest contained. It tuk me nigh an hour to make a hole so that I ked get my head above the edge, and see what the neest contained. Nor did he hear Maitland as he entered the room and drew nigh his bedside. But he nigh brained me with a peavey once, when I had only my bare hands. Linkin has been nigh about down sick with the fever an ager. Dost forget how nigh thou wast to death there in the alabaster Hall? Our resources of the materiel of war were well nigh infinite. We're nigh one of the Aleutians, an' Bering Strait is full of ice. I have not been in bodmin for nigh a week, nor hath any thence been here. Now they draw nigh the groves of trivia and the roof of gold. It was nearly six o'clock, but only grey imperfect misty dawn, when we drew nigh the wharf. Far and nigh Mystery and obscuration none, Yet nowhere any moon or sun! Why, we are nigh the spot that Providence first placed them at, but where, it seems, they were too rebellious to stay. But it's about as nigh to Joe's as 'tis to tabby's, seems to me. You ain't nigh so peart and hop-skippin' as you was when you started. I've heard say that bedstead is nigh two hundred years of age. Anybody who disagrees with bluey Batcheldor must be pretty nigh the limit. And if you've got holsters to that saddle o' yourn, don't let me see your hand go nigh 'em. Show More Sentences He was a young prince, the scion of a proud house that traced its lineage back to the grand old days of Rome well nigh two thousand years ago. Fields were nigh at hand, through which the New River took its winding course, and where there was merry haymaking in the summer time. By the mass, gammer, but for my staff Chat had gone nigh to spill you! But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth and in thy heart. The stroller tried a simple ruse, and nigh lost his feet in doing it. They must get just as nigh the water as they possibly can without falling in. He blew nigh the top of his head off with an old musket that they had for scarin' crows with. He took it hastily, and drew nigh to the lantern to peruse it. During the March equinox and the September equinox the length of nigh and day become equal. I tored they once avore, and 'twas nigh a month 'vore I could start again. Thus, for a dozen reasons, trout are nigh as rare as red deer. From Patmos men go into Ephesus, a fair city and nigh to the sea. I cut him nigh to the saddle-bow in a skirmish on the eve of Dunbar. Hath he not a mill over beyond Nottingham Town, nigh to the Salisbury road? When he came nigh he seemed a knight, and soon he saw that it was Galahad. Laurie, who is in one of his tantrums about something, which vexes the old gentleman, so I dursn't go nigh him. From Patmos men go to Ephesus, a fair city, and nigh to the sea. Well, you mark my words, as that cloud 'ull spread o'er the sky pretty nigh as quick as you'd spread a tarpaulin over one o' your hay-ricks. From Patmos men go unto Ephesus, a fair city and nigh to the sea. When I came nigh he turned, and thrust a bright something in 's tabard. Show More Sentences The original iron entered nigh the tail, and, like a restless needle sojourning in the body of a man, travelled full forty feet, and at last was found imbedded in the hump. Now had the great Proclaimer, with a voice More awful than the sound of trumpet, cried Repentance, and Heaven's kingdom nigh at hand To all baptized. He means all right, but he's picked up so much slang here that he's about forgotten how to talk English, and it's nigh on to four years since he's met a young lady. This one mystic branch hung down before the main entrance of the Seven Gables, so nigh the ground that any passer-by might have stood on tiptoe and plucked it off. The arm that was extended bent and brought the hand nigh to his face, when his head dropped upon it, and concealed the wonderfully speaking lineaments. My darter went to school to her and was nigh crazy about her. The light lingered about the lonely child, as if glad of such a playmate, until her mother had drawn almost nigh enough to step into the magic circle too. My heart was nigh broke, for it seemed that I had left all that was English behind me, and that I would never set eyes upon Norwich market square again. Wave after wave thus leaps into the ship, and finding no speedy vent runs roaring fore and aft, till the mariners come nigh to drowning while yet afloat. So that to this hunter's wondrous skill, the proverbial evanescence of a thing writ in water, a wake, is to all desired purposes well nigh as reliable as the steadfast land. The only thing they feared, was, that from being already so nigh to his mark, he would be enabled to dart his iron before they could completely overtake and pass him. And, as in the legend, it had resulted that her Cyprian image had suddenly appeared upon his alter, whereby the fire of the priest had been well nigh extinguished. Yet, for all his hardy sobriety and fortitude, there were certain qualities in him which at times affected, and in some cases seemed well nigh to overbalance all the rest. And I'm so nigh it that the Aud Man is already whettin' his scythe. But while he was seeking with thimbles and care, A Bandersnatch swiftly drew nigh And grabbed at the Banker, who shrieked in despair, For he knew it was useless to fly. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of nigh? Words that rhyme with nigh What is the past tense of nigh? What is the adverb for nigh? What is the adjective for nigh? What is the noun for nigh? Translations for nigh Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words niggly nigglingly niggling niggles niggled niggle Nigh nigher nighest night Night nightcap 4-letter Words Starting With n ni nig