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How to use nearing in a sentence

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Then he turned the paraglider tightly, circling until the rapidly nearing roofs of Mayrhofen began to smear like wet paint across my sight.
The first, nearing its completion, has been marked by the recovery in financial markets and nascent recovery in the real sector.
When I heard footsteps nearing the door, I quickly pretended to be asleep again.
Many teachers are nearing retirement with more than half being age 40 or older.
Scientists have said cod in particular is nearing extinction and called for a total moratorium.
Rehearsals began in earnest in August and the first act is now nearing completion.
After three years of proposals and modifications they are finally nearing the planning application stage.
He himself was then nearing retirement, though he looked remarkably young and alert.
And since the re-opening of the pool in June visits are already nearing record levels.
Typically, the owners are people nearing retirement who've spent two or three decades building their businesses with tender loving care.
Like little fireflies these lights danced in the dark, nearing ever closer.
And he was deeply saddened that such an ebullient personality was nearing an end.
Both projects were nearing the finish, but Franklin was pipped at the post.
It was clear that the packhorses ' loads were getting lighter, and to the travellers, it indicated that they were nearing the end of the journey.
As David is nearing the end of the street, it opens out onto one of the main broadways.
I had the vaguely presentable air crew, they had the old hags nearing retirement.
With good reason he calculated that his main adversary was no longer a France now nearing exhaustion, but Britain.
It seemed that it was nearing dawn, although how long night would be on a planet with two suns I didn't know.
Do not run down the rear of the leg when nearing the hock as it is easy to cut the hamstring and cause lameness.
He was always known as Captain Jessie, a cantankerous old duffer nearing his eightieth year.
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The cough of a diesel engine exhaust and the clanking of gear told him that a ship was nearing.
The sun, a great red ball, nearing the western horizon, sent a rose-tinged pathway across the black ice from shore to shore.
It was nearing sundown when Kingozi emerged from his tent and gave the signal to move.
With fearful recollections of the Livadia accident in his mind, he watched the nearing lights and spoked the wheel over.
Captain Bunker says it's because we are really nearing the californian coast.
The nightly displays of aurora australis were not very brilliant as the moon was nearing the full.
On his return, while nearing the Nueces River, he spied a couple of Indians.
The motor-boat was nearing the centre of a deep indentation in the littoral.
Again it is a Montgolfier or fire balloon, and on nearing earth it becomes entangled in a tree and catches fire.
One night after Charley had been gone about three weeks, on nearing camp, I saw a big smoke coming out of the chimney.
But as we were nearing Torres Strait an awful storm took us, and we were driven ashore almost a wreck and lost two of our men.
She was deeply laden or waterlogged, and rolled heavily in the trough of the sea, nearing the shore as she felt the tide.
A concentrator capable of handling 4,000 tons of ore per day is nearing completion.
We are now, in this year of 1950, nearing the midpoint of the 20th century.
They were just nearing a polling place when a heavy truck came careening around a corner.
Because the stars pointed that the end was nearing, the black brood came behind again, and followed, noising.
The wind was gradually becoming lighter, and we knew we were nearing the doldrums, or horse latitudes.
The hands of the clock on the front of the Strangers' Gallery were nearing six.
The change in vegetation below showed me that we were rapidly nearing the equator.
On nearing the carrington house, they saw Croyden approaching.
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