How to use "nearby" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "nearby" in popular movie and book plots

  • Vostrikov is informed that a helicopter is approaching, but it is a United States Navy helicopter from a nearby destroyer.  - K-19: The Widowmaker
  • They manage to escape and find refuge on a nearby island off the coast of Norway, but the fate of Nautilus is unknown.  - Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
  • He takes shelter in a nearby house that turns out to belong to dr Kemp, a former acquaintance from medical school.  - The Invisible Man
  • Both Deus and the Zohar survived the explosion and landed on a nearby planet along with Abel, under the protection of the Wave Existence.  - Xenogears
  • Tuco, who now has strong motivation to keep Blondie alive, gives him water and takes him to a nearby frontier mission to recover.  - The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
  • A man standing nearby rushes in and pulls her away just before the dumpster crashes.  - The Wedding Planner
  • MacReady sits nearby as the camp burns, and Childs reappears, claiming he was lost in the storm, pursuing Blair.  - The Thing (1982 film)
  • Watson and Sir Henry pursue Selden on the moor, but he eludes them, while Watson notices another man on a nearby tor.  - The Hound of the Baskervilles
  • They stumble upon a nearby house.  - The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
  • They flee to nearby caves to hide from Ra.  - Stargate (film)
  • The servants transport the immobile statue to a nearby crypt.  - Orgy of the Dead
  • The Epiphyte Corporation uses this income stream to fund the creation of a data haven in the nearby fictional Sultanate of Kinakuta.  - Cryptonomicon
  • Furious with Mickey's notion that they have a threesome, Mallory drives to a nearby gas station, where she flirts with the mechanic.  - Natural Born Killers
  • The humans take a shuttle to a nearby planet to find a replacement beryllium sphere as a new power source.  - Galaxy Quest
  • Meanwhile, young women and girls in the nearby towns have begun dying from an unknown malady.  - Carmilla
  • At a nearby inn, a surgeon informs Barry that the leg will need to be amputated below the knee if he is to survive.  - Barry Lyndon

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