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Nearest in sentence

270 examples of Nearest in a sentence

I think after that I'd be looking for the nearest ship, island anything to get rid of them both!
It is getting late, about 10 o'clock, but he decides to head for the nearest coffee shop.
If your a fan of bad television, I mean the stuff that's so bad its funny, well this is the show for you, run to your nearest library or video store and pick it up.
One evening, when the boy was violently ill with diarrhea, his mother called a taxi to take him to the nearest clinic.
Moving Lombard Street to the Boulevard Haussmann could be more effective than any of the other attempts we English have made to harm our nearest neighbors over the centuries.
People in fear for their lives run to the nearest safe place, not the richest.
At the moment, those picked up in the Mediterranean are brought to the nearest ports, which just happen to be in Italy.
Only last month, in Narok, the town nearest my childhood village, a 13-year-old girl died after undergoing circumcision as a preparation for her marriage to a man who already had five wives.
In office since February, he won a resounding 41% of the vote, twice that of his nearest rival.
A voice replied “I’m here;” we looked up, and there he was, on top of the nearest coconut tree, with his lungi tied up at his knees, a hatchet in one hand and a cellphone in the other.
One thing seems certain to me: without increased security at both ends, political violence will spill over from the Islamic world to its nearest neighbors in Europe.
Because of the remoteness of their community, anytime my grandparents need medical care, they must travel 25 miles to the nearest hospital on motorcycles known as boda-bodas, paying about 50,000 Ugandan shillings (about $13) for the round-trip journey.
Both Japan and its nearest neighbor, South Korea, have longstanding security treaties with the US, but are hostile to each other.
We have not found the nearest such world yet, but statistically it should be within about 15 light years of us – a stone’s throw in cosmic terms.
In fact, powerful predators might be lurking around the nearest water cooler right now.
Roads to remote and beautiful mountains foster eco-tourism but do not help carry merchandise to the nearest port.
Investment is particularly needed in the road network to build the arteries that bring jobs and prosperity: most of the extreme poor in Latin America’s rural communities live five kilometers or more from the nearest paved road.
The group Swing Left has a helpful website that enables people to find the nearest congressional swing district – the point being to identify where Democrats should focus their attention and donations.
To get raw materials, by contrast, you only need to travel as far as the nearest port.
As my colleagues and I have shown, these activities are neither the nearest in terms of capabilities, nor the most valuable as stepping-stones to further development.
One man explained that not only had the disease killed his sister, but his mother-in-law had also perished as she undertook the hours-long walk to the nearest hospital.
I recently visited a remote Dong village in the mountains of Quizho, one of China’s poorest provinces, miles away from the nearest paved road; yet it had electricity, and with electricity had come not just television, but the internet.
Ultimately, Nasheed did contest the election, which was marred by irregularities, including the annulment of the original first round, in which he won the most votes – 20% more than his nearest rival.
Defeating Communism Isn't Enough for UkraineNEW YORK: Leonid Kuchma may have trounced his nearest contender -- the Communist Petro Simonenko -- but his recent election to a second five-year term as Ukraine's president is no victory for democracy.
They settle the richest, most productive land, drink the nearest, cleanest water, and tap the easiest-to-reach energy sources.
They can also use the app to alert the nearest Romanian consular mission in case of emergency, as well as quickly find out what to do in case of accident, illness, or the loss of documents.
Your sub-standard housing will probably be in a slum without a sewage system or any transport to the nearest town.
Imagine my surprise when, as a 19-year-old on my first visit to the United States, I was met by a stream of obscenities from a New York City cop who was directing traffic in Times Square after I asked him for directions to the nearest post office.
But the islets are much closer to the nearest Korean island, Ulleungdo, than to Japan’s Okishima.
Then there’s the GE MAC 400, a hand-held electrocardiogram (ECG) device that costs $800 (the cheapest alternative costs more than $2,000), and the Tata Swachh, a $24 water purifier (ten times cheaper than its nearest competitor).
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