nearest

Example Sentences

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That facility would have been less than 500 feet away from the nearest home, and would have used three times the electricity of the entire 60,000-person city.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 3, 2026

You can find your nearest polling place from the California secretary of state’s website here.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 1, 2026

If the chuyka goes off, bus drivers are supposed to stop, let their passengers out and direct them to the nearest shelter.

From BBC • May 31, 2026

Amazon now controls roughly four out of every 10 dollars Americans spend online – more than four times the share of its nearest competitor.

From Salon • May 27, 2026

Wagons of stran-gers bumped in from the countryside, lining the crossroads nearest the cottage.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock