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How to use the word NEARBY in a Sentence?

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We are going to [have] double the number of middle-income seniors when the baby boomers age, fewer of those baby boomers are going to have spouses or children who live nearby to provide unpaid caregiving support.

Caroline Pearson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I’ve been to shelters with the kids from the dance school where it smells like mold and everyone is trying to keep good feelings, i know this shelter at the Leopolis is where I will go next time even if I’m at the [nearby] dance studio because it was so beautiful.

Hanna Karttunen

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Starving with no food, we saw a fishing boat nearby and tried to go close, we jumped in the water to swim close to that boat but in the end, we could not.

Umme Habiba

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think everyone will agree as human beings that we have the responsibility you want to save one life in distress, let alone hundreds of people dying, (Nearby states) have to act to save these desperate people. It has to be an action which is in coordination done collectively by all the states in the region.

Babar Baloch

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I turned to my daughter, who was standing nearby, and I said, 'It doesn't take courage to break the law. It takes courage to uphold the law,'.

Donald Trump

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

It's not very likely that this plant will be damaged, in the very unlikely case that it is, the radioactive problem would mostly affect Ukrainians that live nearby.

Leon Cizelj

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The movements of the sergeant and officer are stopped when the officer's back comes into contact with a nearby police vehicle.

Chief Rosa

Found on CNN
1 year ago

People have been taught to fear sharks, thinking that if the shark's nearby it's going to bite, and we know that is not true.

Christopher Lowe

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This makes it easier, now, I can bury him, and I will be calmer knowing his grave is nearby. I was waiting for him.

Olha Matsala

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It's like trying to measure the tiny motion of a firefly next to a bright light bulb, we had to meticulously subtract the light of the nearby bright star to precisely measure the deflection of the faint source.

Kailash Sahu

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This is not available in the hospital anymore. Even nearby pharmacies have run out of stock, now, even with money, we can't find the medicine.

Upul Chandana

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Obviously the grimmest situation, I haven’t witnessed it first-hand, are in those towns that are under heavy shelling here around Kyivand where the government is trying to create these humanitarian corridors to bring the people out, i went to one of the suburbs … in the eastern part of Kyivwhich was supposed to receive these people who were supposed to be evacuated from the nearby villages and towns. According to the government, there were three corridors and three convoys of busses went to pick them up.

Volodymyr Solohub

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Wasn't a lot of thought put into it. I just grabbed a book that I had nearby that I knew that I loved, I thought the kids would like and read it.

Toby Price

Found on CNN
2 years ago

During my exercise, my mask had risen up over my nose and blurred my vision, i couldn’t see my feet, and I tripped over a scale in my path and then hit my head on a [nearby] workout machine.

Ed Norton

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We would like to characterize how life reclaims this environment, a main hypothesis from our study is that life in Costa Rica Poás volcano is able to survive on the fringes during these extreme environments. So we'd love to sample not only the crater lake but the shore line, connected groundwater systems, and anywhere where life might be harbored nearby.

Geoffroy Avard

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The surveillance is so good in South Africa and other nearby countries that they found this( new variant), understood it was a problem and told the world very fast about it, we may be at an earlier point with this new variant so there may still be time to do something about it.

Jeffrey Barrett

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Early this afternoon, a group of protestors entered the Stewart Lee Udall Main Interior Building, federal Protective Service personnel responded to the area to mitigate the situation. Multiple injuries were sustained by security personnel, and one officer has been transported to a nearby hospital. Medics representing both the Department and the protesters were present.

Interior Department spokesperson Melissa Schwartz

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

For example, if I'm taking a nap, then my partner may relax in the cabin, work at a nearby park bench or explore the area until I wake, communication is key, as it's equal parts listening to understand and speaking up for yourself.

Navod Ahmir

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I didn't care if I stuck out like a sore thumb, i remember a few days later when I went back to my LSAT class and stopped at a nearby gas station, a man yelled at me,' Go back to your country.' I stared back at him and his pathetic existence and walked away.

Nadia AhmadNadia Ahmad

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Smoke from other fires nearby did limit activity in some places, but not enough to prevent additional growth. Fuel moistures are historically low which is contributing to the critical fire behavior.

Cal Fire

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Most villagers in the remote area had fled to the nearby town.

Antonio Guterres

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The idea is to get valuable data on the rock we are about to sample by finding its geologic twin( nearby) and performing detailed in-situ analysis.

Vivian Sun

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The [ Hendrix's ] owners discovered a trail of blood leading from the passageway to their home and then noticed a CCTV camera nearby. This had been set up by a neighbor whose own cat had suffered a similar fate, having been stabbed and killed a year before, we examined the footage and discovered that it had captured Bouquet stooping to stroke the cat before taking something from his rucksack and making a sudden jerk towards it.

Detective Inspector Chris Thompson

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We're not looking for them a couple of miles up. We're looking for them lightyears away, we look at star systems, other suns that are relatively nearby, that are either known to have planets and maybe planets like earth.

Seth Shostak

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

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