1.   All the old fusty stuff had to be blown away, of course, so we might be nearer to nature.

2.   She would have liked to be nearer to the panel, but she doubted her ability to kneel or squat in the spacesuit.

3.   The place where we were going was much nearer than I thought.

4.   The police are no nearer to catching his killer.

5.   The sounds came from the left this time and were much nearer.

6.   The storm is nearer now too near.

7.   Which of these apparently contradictory views is nearer to the truth?

8.   The Abbey Church of Souillac, now chiefly famous for its magnificent Romanesque sculpture, is nearer to Prigueux.

9.   The Front was nearer now, and Rogers climbed to five thousand feet over the airfield before he turned east.

10.   Her religious sensibility is much nearer to that of the affective Franciscan devotion just as his is to the Dominican tradition of speculative thought.