nigh
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His guests are convinced that moment is nigh.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
You know the end of summer is nigh when Vail Resorts announces opening dates for its ski resorts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
After another long stretch of unrelenting news, the weekend is finally nigh.
From Slate ● Aug. 7, 2026
Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s wedding weekend is nigh, and if you’re anywhere on the internet, you already know.
From Salon ● Jul. 2, 2026
Then one day in late February, with departure nigh, I got a call.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
Or the end of the Anthropocene might be nigher than you think.
From New York Times ● Apr. 25, 2022
“That’s nigher where it is,” said Joe; “she ain’t living.”
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
The old man sees toward his brandished bells The climbing fire With hands of boiling gold stretch nigher.
From Poems of Emile Verhaeren by Emile Verhaeren
Mary tottered as she drew nigher; a terrible sense of fear was over her,—a terror of she knew not what.
From The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II) by Charles James Lever
The whispering grove a holy temple is To him, where God draws nigher to his soul; Each verdant sod a shrine, Whereby he kneels to heaven.
From A Tale of the Kloster A Romance of the German Mystics at the Cocalico by Brother Jabez
When we reckoned this up Drusilla come the nighest to disapprovin' of the Deacon's management that I ever knew her to.
From Samantha at the World's Fair by Baron C. de Grimm
A girl upon the nighest stone, Half doubtful of the deed, was standing, So far the shallow flood had flown Beyond the 'customed leap of landing.
From Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume I. by Jean Ingelow
God is the highest, The greatest, the nighest, Gracious is ever, Is changeable never, Of all our treasures the noblest is He.
From Paul Gerhardt's Spiritual Songs Translated by John Kelly by Paul Gerhardt
Every one," says Coverdale, "doth his best to be nighest to the mark.
From Early Theories of Translation by Flora Ross Amos
Belial: They are the nighest God, their refuge sure And Father: they upon His breast have lain: Now lies a lesser one more close than they.
From Vondel's Lucifer by Joost van den Vondel
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