14 example sentences using nigh.
Nigh used in a sentence
Nigh in a sentence as an adjective
Yeah, it can be nigh-impossible to get vacation time in Japan.
Advice that happens to highlight what a nigh-impossible task that really is.
But I do know that it's nigh impossible to meet someone under 30 in the US who doesn't think copyright law is a joke.
In the early days of the web putting together a team to do something like that was well-nigh impossible.
I was under the impression they believed they were getting picked up by a space ship that was travelling with Hale Bop not that the end was nigh.
Just because a small number of students are dropping out to start companies doesn't mean that the end of the university is nigh.
"Confronting the problem" is hard in the company of reasoned discussion and nigh-impossible in the face of extremists.
Nigh in a sentence as an adverb
And if you want something not in English, you have to find the nigh-undiscoverable 'roll over top right corner' to have the language selecter appear.
My website, for example, has been blank page for nigh unto half a decade now, just because I want to write something good on there and I'm not sure whatever I write will be good.
In some seasons there have been half a dozen shows following nigh-identical formulas, much in the same way that there's so many identical blockbuster FPSs.
Even leaving a minimal footprint for analysis is becoming nigh impossible.
Thanks for submitting this - given the nigh-eclipsing popularity of SpaceX on social networks I hadn't heard about this recent launch or Orbital's recent activity at all.
We've had personal computers for nigh-on three or four decades now, and the fact that they're still treated in popular culture as magic black boxes is a failing on our part as techies for not educating better the rest of the population.
Could I replace the Absolute software with a botnet node and still use their nigh-irremovable persistence mechanism?Selling laptops with a pre-installed surveillance framework, however well you meant, is not acceptable.
Nigh definitions
not far distant in time or space or degree or circumstances; "near neighbors"; "in the near future"; "they are near equals"; "his nearest approach to success"; "a very near thing"; "a near hit by the bomb"; "she was near tears"; "she was close to tears"; "had a close call"
being on the left side; "the near or nigh horse is the one on the left"; "the animal's left side is its near or nigh side"
near in time or place or relationship; "as the wedding day drew near"; "stood near the door"; "don't shoot until they come near"; "getting near to the true explanation"; "her mother is always near"; "The end draws nigh"; "the bullet didn't come close"; "don't get too close to the fire"
(of actions or states) slightly short of or not quite accomplished; all but; "the job is (just) about done"; "the baby was almost asleep when the alarm sounded"; "we're almost finished"; "the car all but ran her down"; "he nearly fainted"; "talked for nigh onto 2 hours"; "the recording is well-nigh perfect"; "virtually all the parties signed the contract"; "I was near exhausted by the run"; "most everyone agrees"