ALMOST in a Sentence
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328 example sentences for ALMOST, such as:
1. He wrote to her almost daily.
2. He was almost speechless with anger.
3. It was almost intolerable to be borne.
4. It happened almost exactly a year ago.
5. The pain was almost too great to endure.
2. He was almost speechless with anger.
3. It was almost intolerable to be borne.
4. It happened almost exactly a year ago.
5. The pain was almost too great to endure.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of ALMOST
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almost
ad. (of actions or states) slightly short of or not quite accomplished; all but
Classic Sentence: (202 in 14 pages)
1 I could now almost fancy myself among the Swiss mountains.
2 Here also we made some acquaintances, who almost contrived to cheat me into happiness.
3 Despair had indeed almost secured her prey, and I should soon have sunk beneath this misery.
4 This faith gives a solemnity to his reveries that render them to me almost as imposing and interesting as truth.
5 They retired and I turned towards my friend, but he was sunk in languor and almost deprived of life.
6 "I almost made a mistake, too," she declared vigorously.
7 I almost married a little kyke who'd been after me for years.
8 "Well, we're almost the last tonight," said one of the men sheepishly.
9 "I know your wife," continued Gatsby, almost aggressively.
10 But they made no sound and what I had almost remembered was uncommunicable forever.
11 The next day was broiling, almost the last, certainly the warmest, of the summer.
12 This was a forlorn hope--he was almost sure that Wilson had no friend: there was not enough of him for his wife.
13 It was almost intolerable to be borne.
14 After a brief space, the convulsion grew almost imperceptible, and finally subsided into the depths of his nature.
15 A revelation, he could almost say, had been granted to him.
Example Sentence: (126 in 9 pages)
1 Their parents had an almost preternatural ability to understand what was going on in their children's minds.
2 It seems almost inevitable that North African economies will still be primarily oriented towards Europe.
3 He was almost back to his belligerent mood of twelve months ago.
4 It happened almost exactly a year ago.
5 The air conditioner droned almost inaudibly.
6 In almost every face and every person, they may discover fine feathers and defects, good and bad qualities.
7 To live long is almost everyone's wish, but to live well is the ambitiion of a few.
8 A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
9 The pain was almost too great to endure.
10 I was almost tempted to strip off and plunge straight into the pool.
11 He had been miraculously saved from almost certain death.
12 I'm so thirsty I'm almost dying for a cuppa.
13 He was almost speechless with anger.
14 He wrote to her almost daily.
15 The debate is being conducted almost exclusively on party political lines.