How to Use to the nearest in a Sentence

to the nearest

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  • Works best with a clear line of sight to the nearest cell tower.
    — Kara McGinley, USA Today, 24 June 2025
  • The best plan of action is to drive to the nearest shelter.
    — Star-Telegram Weather Bot, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 19 June 2026
  • Your best course of action is to drive to the nearest shelter.
    — Bay Area Weather Report, Mercury News, 25 Dec. 2025
  • Your best option is to drive to the nearest shelter.
    — Bay Area Weather Report, Mercury News, 5 Jan. 2026
  • Then the four others had agreed to transport the group to the nearest town.
    — Elizabeth Flock, New Yorker, 23 Feb. 2026
  • The pair would then make their way to the nearest trout stream, fly rods in hand, and wait for the sun to come up.
    — Tyler Austin Harper, The Atlantic, 30 Oct. 2025
  • All amounts are rounded to the nearest dollar.
    — Celia Fernandez zachary Green, CNBC, 14 Mar. 2026
  • The Reach rides can also connect to the nearest bus or rail line.
    — Aj Willingham, AJC.com, 6 Mar. 2026
  • Point me to the nearest Trader Joe’s.
    — Symiah Dorsey, Southern Living, 11 Oct. 2025
  • All prices would round to the nearest 25 cents in cash transactions.
    — David Bogert, The Orlando Sentinel, 31 May 2025
  • Pinch or clip away the growing tip of the longest stem, cutting it back to the nearest leaf joint.
    — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 Feb. 2025
  • She’s rushed to the nearest hospital, where she is pronounced brain-dead.
    — Brea Baker, Refinery29, 22 May 2025
  • Since the station can’t move, there’s no hope of getting to the nearest planet that takes in refugees.
    — Jennifer Zhan, Vulture, 10 May 2024
  • Some merchants plan to round prices to the nearest nickel, often a penny or two more.
    — Vanessa Yurkevich, CNN Money, 12 Nov. 2025
  • The original alert advised students to go to the nearest room and lock it.
    — Suryatapa Chakraborty, Dallas Morning News, 7 Mar. 2026
  • No one knows the actual death toll—not even to the nearest hundred thousand.
    — Ben Taub, The New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Carlos helped bring the woman to the nearest clinic, someone close to all of them said.
    — Oriana Van Praag, New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2026
  • Simply head to the nearest military base and find the motor pool.
    — Aaron Kiley, Car and Driver, 9 Sep. 2023
  • Finally, pack up and head to the nearest mechanic to change your spare for a longer-term tire.
    — Lauren Farrell, Chicago Tribune, 1 Aug. 2023
  • Those without shelters in their homes ran to the nearest public shelters.
    — Oren Liebermann, CNN Money, 26 June 2025
  • The winter sky was already dark, but the teen stormed to the nearest sheriff’s station about a mile away.
    — Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 7 May 2024
  • That trip includes a roughly 20-minute walk to the nearest bus station.
    — Marin Wolf, Dallas News, 29 Apr. 2023
  • But the percentage change is based on a less rounded version of those prices, to the nearest tenth of a cent.
    — Alina Selyukh, NPR, 14 Jan. 2026
  • Her friends encouraged her to go to the nearest hospital.
    — Jordan Greene, People.com, 22 Aug. 2025
  • Estimates are shown to the nearest dollar; rows or columns may not sum due to rounding.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 26 June 2023
  • When your total ends in 8 or 9 cents, the seller rounds up to the nearest 10nth.
    — Hali Smith, Idaho Statesman, 6 Apr. 2026
  • And when there are no pennies in the till, rounding to the nearest nickel has become the fallback.
    — Kenneth R. Gosselin, Hartford Courant, 18 Jan. 2026
  • McKenzie hightailed it to the nearest judo studio to find the kid and get his card back.
    — Ayana Archie, NPR, 18 Feb. 2026
  • What follows is the inevitable mad dash to the nearest store where you’re confronted with a wall of bottles.
    — Sam Stone, Bon Appétit, 5 Dec. 2023
  • The woman drove to the nearest house to get help, but by the time police arrived, Wayne and the man were gone.
    — Katie Langford, Denver Post, 8 Nov. 2025

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