nearly

How To Use nearly In A Sentence

• He called the foiled butt "Really juicy and nearly perfect. Physicist Cracks BBQ Mystery
• If there was any hope of holding on to even a shred of her dwindling self-respect, she should do exactly what she knew Margo would do—close the laptop, take her de-scrunchied, perfumed, and nearly thonged self down to the nearest club, pick up the first passably good-looking stranger who asked her to dance, and bring him back to the apartment for some safe but anonymous sex. Goodnight Tweetheart
• The opposite change occurs in what are termed fastigiate varieties, where the branches, in place of assuming more or less of a horizontal direction, become erect and nearly parallel with the main stem as in the Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
• He nearly knocked over a couple of pop fans en route. The Sun
• Let the term geoid apply to the natural irregular surface of the earth and the term spheroid to the ideal regular sur - face of the geodesist which coincides nearly with sealevel and is necessarily a level surface. Transactions - American Philosophical Society
• She nearly gasped out loud at this insult.
• The next day Tredias' arm was very nearly healed and needed only the support of a sling.
• A study by Conservation International, an American organisation, found that nearly a third of frogs, toads, newts and other amphibian species were likely to disappear within 100 years.
• John Terry booked after a rash challenge which nearly lost Holdsworth his head.
• Nearly 40 parents were prosecuted for their child's non-attendance.