nearby wood

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nearby
adverb
adjective
uk
/ˌnɪəˈbaɪ/us
/ˌnɪrˈbaɪ/
not ...
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wood
noun
uk
/wʊd/us
/wʊd/
a hard substance that forms the branches and trunks of trees and can be used as a building material, for making things, or as ...
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(Definition ofnearbyandwoodfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Meanwhile, the public had been informed and a 1,000-people search team had been sent to anearbywood.
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Meanwhile, the public had been informed and a 1,000man search team had been sent to anearbywood.
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Firewood is stored in thenearbywoodshed.
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It takes its name from the wife of a sea captain who lived here and buried her in anearbywoodrather than confessing to her dying aboard his ship.
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There was a billiard room, a tennis court in anearbywoodand on a steep meadow a roofed bowling alley.
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The tree stands in thenearbywood, its circumference is 565 cm and its height is 25 m.
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Food was grown in nearby fields, hunted in nearby woods, or fished from nearby waters.
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Other nearby woods were in a similar situation.
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They were hewn in the nearby woods and carried down on the shoulders of many men.
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The four who were remaining, all of them wounded, fled off into the nearby woods.
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Some time later, a king, hunting in nearby woods, follows his falcon into the house.
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In the nearby woods, two hunters are caught in the raging thunderstorm.
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Gabreski ran into nearby woods and eluded capture for five days, but was eventually captured.
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The deer then jumped onto the tracks and escaped into nearby woods.
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The few survivors of the onslaught escaped into the nearby woods.
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The game begins as the pair are having a walk in some nearby woods.
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Vestiges of a fountain, dam, and other structures can be seen in the nearby woods.
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His body was then dumped in the nearby woods.
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About 60 defenders ran into nearby woods and jumped into the river.
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They enlarged the house and held hunting parties in the nearby woods.
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