How to Use near miss in a Sentence

near miss

noun

• After years of near misses, the team has finally won a championship.
• There are still lessons to be drawn from his win and his near miss.
  — Washington Examiner Staff, Washington Examiner, 5 Nov. 2020
• The shoot-down of the U-2 over Cuba is well known, but the near miss over the Bering Strait came as news to me.
  — Washington Post, 30 Apr. 2021
• Blake, who had a near miss in his quest to crack double figures, might call it the luck of the Irish.
  — Lars Brandle, Billboard, 24 May 2023
• This is one of those struggles where a near miss counts for nothing.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 17 Sep. 2021
• In two of those cases, a vehicle was involved; the third is the JFK near miss.
  — Hannah Sampson and Andrea Sachs, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Mar. 2023
• There was one final, near miss effort to help Jack clean up.
  — Dan Koeppel, Outside Online, 5 Sep. 2019
• The history of the Cold War is littered with near misses.
  — Will Stephenson, Harper's Magazine, 16 Aug. 2023
• The report of an apocalypse near miss came as a wake-up call to Reagan.
  — Evan Thomas, Washington Post, 22 July 2022
• One thing Larson doesn’t have on his plate is time to dwell on his near miss last year at Pocono Raceway.
  — Dan Gelston, ajc, 23 July 2022
• Anthopoulos’s path to the World Series came after a near miss in 2015 and then a bombshell.
  — Scott Miller, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2021
• Five of the children were from the original batch of synesthetes, and the sixth had been a near miss originally.
  — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 18 Nov. 2013
• Ohtani struck out twice after his near miss Wednesday and Judge’s blast was his lone hit over the previous two nights.
  — Larry Fleisher, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2023
• For an asteroid headed toward Earth, that could be enough to change a direct hit to a near miss.
  — Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 26 Sep. 2022
• His near miss stands out in British history, as does the significant loss of life.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 17 June 2022
• It can be argued Pascal was a near miss for a nomination in the show’s first two seasons.
  — Clayton Davis, Variety, 3 Apr. 2023
• Such near misses are part of why the United States wants high-level dialogue with China to restart.
  — Christian Shepherd, Washington Post, 4 June 2023
• The near miss left Mohammad racked with further despair.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 17 Oct. 2021
• Oosthuizen, the 2010 Open champion and runner up at the last two majors, had another near miss in a career full of them.
  — Steve Douglas, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 July 2021
• What’s worse, each near miss has to have increasingly higher stakes, in order to be more thrilling than the previous one.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 28 Apr. 2021
• The Democratic near miss in the Ohio special election augurs well for the party’s prospects in November.
  — Li Zhou, Vox, 10 Aug. 2018
• That is where the game stood for the next couple of hours, through Oakland’s near miss in the ninth inning, another threat in the top of the 10th and the Yankees’ getting a potential go-ahead run to third in the eighth.
  — Wallace Matthews, New York Times, 12 May 2018
• As is typical of a preliminary report such as this, the report did not assess any fault for the near miss.
  — Chris Isidore, CNN, 2 Mar. 2023
• That pattern was repeated after a near miss in the West Falls Church rail yard in February 2021, the commission said.
  — Michael Laris, Washington Post, 29 Sep. 2022
• After escaping that near miss, Paul increased the tempo and ended on top.
  — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 29 Aug. 2021
• But the aggressiveness and arm talent Shough displayed on both plays, and a near miss with Johnson in the end zone, were encouraging to see.
  — oregonlive, 8 Nov. 2020
• This need was highlighted by the recent saga of a near miss between two of Elon Musk’s Starlink satellites and China’s in-progress crewed space station.
  — Bin Li, Scientific American, 9 May 2022
• His latest near miss wasn't exactly a meltdown, so Oosthuizen can be thankful for that.
  — Tim Dahlberg, Star Tribune, 18 July 2021
• After months of waffling, lawsuits, verbal mudslinging and the near miss of a full blown trial, Elon Musk now owns Twitter.
  — Lauren Hirsch, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2022
• And a big contributor to the rise in near misses seems to be understaffing at air traffic control centers.
  — USA TODAY, 23 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024