Pronunciation of nearly

Pronunciation of the English word nearly.

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Pronounce nearly in English


nearly in a sentence

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1. After nearly collapsing, the U.S. auto industry has added nearly 250,000 jobs—the fastest pace of job growth in more than a decade.
2. Several schools with study-abroad programs in China and South Korea, where the coronavirus has infected nearly 79,000 and nearly 1,800, respectively, have already shuttered those programs.
3. In the cities the quarters for the wealthier classes are not so sharply defined as with us, though the love for pleasant outlooks and beautiful scenery tends to enhance the value of certain districts, and consequently to bring together the wealthier classes. In nearly all the cities, however, you will find the houses of the wealthy in the immediate vicinity of the habitations of the poorest. In Tokio one may find streets, or narrow alleys, lined with a continuous row of the cheapest shelters; and here dwell the poorest people. Though squalid and dirty as such places appear to the Japanese, they are immaculate in comparison with the unutterable filth and misery of similar quarters in nearly all the great cities of Christendom. Certainly a rich man in Japan would not, as a general thing, buy up the land about his house to keep the poorer classes at a distance, for the reason that their presence would not be objectionable, since poverty in Japan is not associated with the impossible manners of a similar class at home.
4. What makes this year’s great conjunction so significant is that the two planets have not passed this close to one another in 400 years, and it has been nearly 800 years since the alignment occurred at night, as it will this year, allowing nearly everyone around the world to witness it.
5. When I ask people what they regret most about high school, they nearly all say the same thing: that they wasted so much time.
6. You nearly poked me in the eye with your pencil.
7. I nearly choked on a fishbone.
8. I was nearly run over by a car.
9. She wasn't hurt, but she got goose bumps when her car nearly crashed.
10. The sea covers nearly three-fourths of the earth's surface.

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