Nigh is an English word of 4 letters with synonyms like near or close. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Nigh in a sentence
Related words
Nigh meaning
- Near, close by.
- Not remote in degree, kindred, circumstances, etc.; closely allied; intimate.
Synonyms of Nigh
Using Nigh
- The main meaning on this page is: Near, close by. | Not remote in degree, kindred, circumstances, etc.; closely allied; intimate.
- Useful related words include: near, close, most, almost.
- In the example corpus, nigh often appears in combinations such as: is nigh, nigh impossible, nigh on.
Context around Nigh
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 7 middle, 9 end
- Sentence types: 18 statements, 1 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Nigh
- In this selection, "nigh" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 22.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, immediately, surely, become, impossible, unstoppable and doomed stand out and add context to how "nigh" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include aivolution is nigh and attack is nigh impossible to. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "nigh" sits close to words such as abidjan, acb and achievers, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with nigh
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The AIvolution is nigh. (4 words)
My end is surely nigh. (5 words)
The end is nigh for rate hikes in India. (9 words)
Needless to say, the truth that Hitler and Stalin were nigh to unrepeatable aberrations of history and that the nations of the world are not dominoes perennially fixing to "fall" invalidates the entire GOP/Washington foreign policy framework. (38 words)
In a world full of Grisha — people who can manipulate matter at will — she is the fabled "Sun Summoner," the only one who can defeat an impossibly charming, nigh-immortal bad guy known as the Darkling (Ben Barnes). (38 words)
The Panthers’ attack is nigh impossible to stop when Cleary and the other key cogs in Jarome Luai, Dylan Edwards and Isaah Yeo are on song, as they were against Melbourne on Friday night. (34 words)
How does a person go from feeling fine to assuming death is nigh, then back to feeling fine again in a matter of hours? (24 words)
It’s nigh impossible to take your own hip socket and stretch it away from itself! (16 words)
Example sentences (20)
After ten films in the Fast & Furious series, an eleventh immediately nigh, and a twelfth on the docket, one might see some themes beginning to emerge.
For nigh on 30 years, downtown auteur Maxwell has hewed to a tactic of rigorous minimalism—design stripped down like a rehearsal room, acting deemphasized to the point of amateurish deadpan.
He said in his farewell statement read: "I'm leaving after nigh on 30 years.
In such a state, Meliodas becomes a nigh-unstoppable force of destruction.
It’s nigh impossible to take your own hip socket and stretch it away from itself!
My end is surely nigh.
Needless to say, the truth that Hitler and Stalin were nigh to unrepeatable aberrations of history and that the nations of the world are not dominoes perennially fixing to "fall" invalidates the entire GOP/Washington foreign policy framework.
The AIvolution is nigh.
The end is nigh for rate hikes in India.
The over-ambition of the Company and the Scottish nation, poor strategic planning and, above all, infighting among the would-be colonists, all made the project well-nigh doomed.
The Panthers’ attack is nigh impossible to stop when Cleary and the other key cogs in Jarome Luai, Dylan Edwards and Isaah Yeo are on song, as they were against Melbourne on Friday night.
The sheer scale of their techniques and the absurdity of their strength clearly painted the two as the strongest shinobi to ever walk the lands, and making anyone stronger than that become nigh impossible.
The time is nigh to ignite the torch of having fun.
You’ve likely got money on the brain while Mercury spins through your income sector, but any savvy fiscal policies will be nigh useless when Mercury argues with Neptune in your humanitarian 11th house.
But with Christmas Day nigh, may this serve as a reminder there is still time for your heart to grow three sizes.
Hence, jurors understand that not only can the recollections of the participants be different, but that preferring one to the other can be well-nigh impossible.
How does a person go from feeling fine to assuming death is nigh, then back to feeling fine again in a matter of hours?
In a world full of Grisha — people who can manipulate matter at will — she is the fabled "Sun Summoner," the only one who can defeat an impossibly charming, nigh-immortal bad guy known as the Darkling (Ben Barnes).
Latimer would be moved to hospice care that year, only to move back out again within months, disenchanted with the notion that the end was nigh.
My guess is that the end of the road is nigh for DeSantis.
Common combinations with nigh
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- is nigh 19×
- nigh impossible 12×
- nigh on 9×
- nigh and 5×
- nigh for 5×
- was nigh 5×
- it nigh 4×
- be nigh 4×
- for nigh 3×
- well nigh 3×