: near
Examples of nigh in a Sentence
Adverb
The snow is melting. Spring is nigh.
It would be nigh impossible to fix it.
Adjective
the end is nigh
Preposition
a field nigh the church
Verb
as the hour of his death was nighing
as the old man was nighing his hour of death
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Fran Ruiz, Space.com, 15 Sep. 2025
With Hillman Grad’s myriad successes, the time to begin having these conversations is nigh.
—Angelique Jackson, Variety, 3 Feb. 2023
Henry Flynn, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2023
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Adverb
Master Chief, much like the Doom Slayer, dwarfed most of his foes and was nigh-on invulnerable.
—Fran Ruiz, Space.com, 15 Sep. 2025
With Hillman Grad’s myriad successes, the time to begin having these conversations is nigh.
—Angelique Jackson, Variety, 3 Feb. 2023
Verb
Typically, his charges have shown the classic mental strength to get over the line in awkward games—with opposition teams having to execute their game plan to nigh on perfection to prosper in most cases.
—Henry Flynn, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2023
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“Nigh.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nigh. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.
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