9 sentences with 'nearby'
Example sentences and phrases with the word nearby and other words derived from it.
• « The volunteer fire department of nearby Jefferson County sent two nylon-reinforced, vinyl air bags - capable of lifting up to 22 tons - which were placed under the front of the boulder. »
• « An instructor and two students from a nearby vocational school cut the required l-shaped brackets with acetylene torches. »
• « Student Paul Kubichek took it upon himself to write to the Freehold Public Library in that state, from which they sent him the mechanic's address in the nearby town of Mercerville. »
• « A librarian in Oakland, California, located James Reynolds in the phone book of the nearby village of Alameda. »
• « It is no coincidence that this is where civilisation was born: as in nearby Egypt and the Nile River, early agriculture depended on a regular supply of water in a very fertile region. »
• « Rome led this coalition against the nearby hill tribes who had periodically raided the area, and then against the Etruscans who had once ruled Rome itself. »
• « Both war and trade went back and forth between Rome and Persia, with the Euphrates River as the usual border between the two empires and the nearby kingdom of Armenia as a buffer state dominated by one power and then the other over time. »
• « Jesus travelled and taught in the Roman province of Palestine and nearby Roman-dominated puppet kingdoms for three years, but was then arrested by Roman authorities for inciting rebellion. »