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Nearby is an English word with synonyms like near or close. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.

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Nearby in a sentence

Nearby meaning

Adjacent, near, close by.

Synonyms of Nearby

Using Nearby

  • The main meaning on this page is: Adjacent, near, close by.
  • Useful related words include: near, close, nigh.
  • In the example corpus, nearby often appears in combinations such as: the nearby, to nearby, in nearby.

Context around Nearby

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 29.2 words
  • Position in the sentence: 8 start, 11 middle, 1 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Corpus analysis for Nearby

  • In this selection, "nearby" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 29.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, estates, home, basins, hospital, resident and schoolyard stand out and add context to how "nearby" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include 9 and nearby streets creating, a person nearby is sick, nearby village, living nearby and nearby hospital. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "nearby" sits close to words such as camera, journey and feeling, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with nearby

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

An office building and nearby barracks were destroyed, and 25 nearby homes were also damaged. (15 words)

Nearby, volunteers drenched the ground with water pumped from a nearby marsh and sprayed it with two fire hoses. (19 words)

People nearby heard the commotion and were able to lift the teenager out and take him to a nearby hospital. (20 words)

After assessing his grandma’s injuries and helping her to a nearby bench, Harry realised there was no first aid kit on the family boat, so he approached others nearby and swiftly returned with the necessary kit to clean and dress the laceration. (43 words)

The problem is that, for the gamma rays to be bright enough to detect, the supernova has to be nearby — within our Milky Way galaxy or one of its satellite galaxies — and nearby stars explode only on average every few decades. (41 words)

The second floor, which offers a view along St Leonard’s Place and the nearby Bootham Bar, was converted from a subscriber only hot-desking area, said Jolanta, with groups of regularly returning students whose campus was nearby coming in. (40 words)

Example sentences (20)

Another nearby resident argued that they believed there are "more appropriate commercial business premises available on industrial estates nearby" rather than on the residential street.

First, they went to a relative’s home nearby, but still fearing the aftermath of tremors, they took their car and went to a nearby schoolyard, filled with cars of other residents seeking safety.

I’m not entirely sure what the blueberries care about, nor am I clear whether the nearby blackberries and raspberries, sitting listless and apathetic in their cozy basins nearby, care about anything at all.

When I scanned for nearby devices through the app, my Nanoleaf Lines Squared and Shapes lights did not come up, but I did get a Samsung Range and a TV that must have been from another nearby residence.

After assessing his grandma’s injuries and helping her to a nearby bench, Harry realised there was no first aid kit on the family boat, so he approached others nearby and swiftly returned with the necessary kit to clean and dress the laceration.

An office building and nearby barracks were destroyed, and 25 nearby homes were also damaged.

Despite this having a big effect on nearby residents, many living nearby say they were unaware of the work and closure.

Police searched a nearby garage and the nearby wooded area for the occupant(s) of the home while firefighters conducted searches within the residence which all yielded negative results.

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The problem is that, for the gamma rays to be bright enough to detect, the supernova has to be nearby — within our Milky Way galaxy or one of its satellite galaxies — and nearby stars explode only on average every few decades.

The second floor, which offers a view along St Leonard’s Place and the nearby Bootham Bar, was converted from a subscriber only hot-desking area, said Jolanta, with groups of regularly returning students whose campus was nearby coming in.

They managed to retrieve three bodies from the rubble, and three more who were seriously injured in the crash, and rushed to the nearby M.W. Desai Municipal Hospital in nearby Govind Nagar.

If a person nearby is sick, the wind will scatter the virus, potentially exposing nearby people but in far smaller quantities, which are less likely to be harmful.

Nearby, volunteers drenched the ground with water pumped from a nearby marsh and sprayed it with two fire hoses.

The blast almost levelled the nearby Vassilikos power plant, which produces nearly 60 percent of the island's energy, damaged buildings in nearby villages and rained metal on a motorway.

The move came as baseball’s Philadelphia Phillies announced that some of their players and staff had tested positive in nearby Clearwater, Florida, and the had one player show symptoms consistent with the coronavirus in nearby Dunedin, Florida.

It said the route had been 'sensitively positioned to ensure minimal impact upon local views, nearby heritage assets and nearby occupants'.

No one was injured, but Sullivan said the blast blew out the window of a nearby business and caused officials to briefly close off Route 9 and nearby streets, creating standstill traffic.

People nearby heard the commotion and were able to lift the teenager out and take him to a nearby hospital.

The child was rushed to a nearby fire station after he was found not breathing, and later died at a nearby hospital.

The major concern for the firefighters was nearby fuel and gas lines as well as explosives housed at a nearby company.

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Common combinations with nearby

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Frequently asked questions

How do you use "nearby" in a sentence?
An example: "Another nearby resident argued that they believed there are "more appropriate commercial business premises available on industrial estates nearby" rather than on the residential street." This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "nearby" from authentic English texts.
What does "nearby" mean?
Nearby means: Adjacent, near, close by.
What are synonyms of "nearby"?
Common synonyms of "nearby" include: near, close, nigh.
How many example sentences with "nearby" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains at least 10+ example sentences with "nearby", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.