How to Use the Near East in a Sentence

the Near East

noun

• Instead, after the glacial maximum, people in Italy show genetic links to the Near East, suggesting a new population arrived from the Balkans.
  — Byandrew Curry, science.org, 1 Mar. 2023
• But apocalyptic traditions such as those of the Near East, from Zoroastrianism to Islam, are not universal.
  — Michael Robbins, Harper's Magazine, 9 Nov. 2022
• More than 100 game boards like these of partially similar types, crafted from various materials such as wood, stone and clay, have been found in the Near East, spanning a period of two millennia.
  — Newsweek, 20 Dec. 2024
• College students, particularly at elite colleges and universities, are not only rejecting the mere right of Jews to continue to live in their historic homeland in the Near East.
  — Miles Smith Iv, National Review, 5 Nov. 2023
• The success of this discovery, as reported in a press release, can be attributed to chicken bones that were excavated from 140 archaeological sites across Europe and the Near East.
  — Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 20 Dec. 2023
• This example, however, hails from the Near East.
  — Kathryn O’Shea-Evans, Robb Report, 29 Mar. 2026