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
• The Kings have also had a few near misses over the past three years.
  — Jason Anderson, Sacramento Bee, 25 June 2024
• 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
• Her schedule got jump-started by that near miss at the 2023 Pan Am Games.
  — David Wharton, Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2024
• The near miss, coupled with my injury, forced me to reckon with risk.
  — Sharael Kolberg, Travel + Leisure, 4 July 2024
• 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
• That wisdom comes from more than a decade of false starts, near misses, and genre pivots.
  — Mike Wass, Variety, 7 Feb. 2024
• 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
• Smith’s near misses were a storyline throughout the Games.
  — Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 3 Aug. 2024
• 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
• This space-junk impact in rural Saskatchewan was a near miss, yet no one seems too worried about correcting it.
  — Samantha Lawler, Scientific American, 11 July 2024
• 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
• Torri Huske, driven by Tokyo near miss, gets her golden moment in Paris.
  — Rachel G Bowers, USA TODAY, 29 July 2024
• The near miss left Mohammad racked with further despair.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 17 Oct. 2021
• Olivia Blodgett’s last phone – an iPhone 13 – survived some near misses before it, too, cracked.
  — Jessica Guynn, USA TODAY, 7 Mar. 2024
• 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
• Yet since then, summer-child-care policy has been marked by a succession of near misses, half efforts, and false starts.
  — Elliot Haspel, The Atlantic, 23 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Dec 2024