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How to use nigh in a sentence

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We were friends, good friends, but the time was drawing nigh when I had to lay my cards on the table.
Forbidden were men to draw nigh the plant, yet weaker were their still young and innocent minds to words of deception.
The third, John, hasn't seen the other two for nigh on 20 years, having started a family and taken on the responsibilities that go with it.
Because of the haphazard way events are patchworked together, it's nigh onto impossible to follow the flow of the season.
They range from the poor state of the roads to sheer recklessness on the part of some drivers who have nigh on abandoned all road safety rules.
Yes, the logistics of accommodating and transporting the world's best athletes for nigh on a month will mean disruption on a massive scale.
We spent a half an hour in the dealership, which is nigh unto an eternity when you have a small child.
Instead, with the match already nigh on a 7,000 sell-out, everywhere they look the stars will be on the other side of the field.
Trust me, this will be something that will be nigh unto impossible to break.
It permeates every corner of Northern Irish society, often unseen but nigh impossible to evade.
Thus, my look and in depth coverage of Roman cuisine draws nigh to a close.
But with Election Day drawing nigh once more, guess who is promising what once again?
Many and varied are the causes of homelessness and to try to document them in such a short space would be nigh on impossible.
They leak, they give the wine a plastic flavour, they are nigh on impossible to remove with a cork screw when you're squiffy.
Vapor phase coatings differ from platings in that it is well nigh impossible to plate aluminum or aluminum alloys from an aqueous bath.
Like Pandora's box, once opened, it is going to be well nigh impossible to put back the troubles and close down the lid.
This prevailing linguistic approach to the Classics meant that the study of Ancient History was well nigh ignored in the Public Schools.
They recognized that getting the nuclear genie back in the bottle was nigh impossible.
The wooden floor beneath Lord Anuru began to twist and distort, as well as the walls and the ceiling which was now nigh gone.
The time was barely ten o'clock at night, but chilly gusts of wind with a taste of rain in them had well nigh depeopled the streets.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Atter us all sot free I just changed my name to 'tines' an' dats what I been goin' by for nigh on to ninety years.
He is nigh ragged, and takes it to heart that I should go in brocaded satin.
There's no air, and I noticed the binnacle alight, so it must have been nigh dark under that funnel cloud.
It was Alischar, and smaragdine had nigh swooned away with the joy of beholding him.
Just at this moment, Robert was well nigh the victim of his own imprudence.
They tanked her cruel they did, and kept her under water till she was nigh gone.
It wuz, as nigh as I could calkerlate, about a hour and three-quarters long.
Mighty nigh all de chillun had a little teency bag of asafetida, on a string 'round they necks, to keep off diseases.
The cause of giving the chariot to Fiacc was that a chafer had gnawed his leg, so that death was nigh unto him.
The forecastle was lumbered with ship's chandlery, the hold nigh full of rice, the lazarette crowded with the teas and silks.
And when the kingdom of God comes nigh to men, human responsibility must be enlarged in commensuration with its blessings.
Look hyeah, gal, don't you tell me dat's scripter, an' me been a-settin' undah de scripter fu' nigh onto sixty yeah.
I always runned out and tried to see 'em, but old as I is, nigh 86, I ain't never seed no scritch owl.
Keep the rake, says the haymaker, as nigh the scythe as you can, and the cart as nigh the rake.
Many of them had staffs, and all were bent nigh double under their burdens.
It is life drawing nigh to life, person to person, the human to human, that conquers death.
Something broke and the nigh leader swung around until he was at right angles with his team-mate.
I left her for dead, and if there had been a limekiln as nigh her as there is now nigh you, she shouldn't have come to life again.
They got theirselves married and went off, and he was well nigh as old as me.
But according to the balladist his career, on one occasion, had well nigh terminated disastrously.
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