ALMOST in a Sentence

Learn ALMOST from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
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.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of ALMOST
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.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19
2  Here also we made some acquaintances, who almost contrived to cheat me into happiness.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19
3  Despair had indeed almost secured her prey, and I should soon have sunk beneath this misery.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24
4  This faith gives a solemnity to his reveries that render them to me almost as imposing and interesting as truth.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24
5  They retired and I turned towards my friend, but he was sunk in languor and almost deprived of life.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24
6  "I almost made a mistake, too," she declared vigorously.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
7  I almost married a little kyke who'd been after me for years.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
8  "Well, we're almost the last tonight," said one of the men sheepishly.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
9  "I know your wife," continued Gatsby, almost aggressively.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
10  But they made no sound and what I had almost remembered was uncommunicable forever.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
11  The next day was broiling, almost the last, certainly the warmest, of the summer.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
12  This was a forlorn hope--he was almost sure that Wilson had no friend: there was not enough of him for his wife.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
13  It was almost intolerable to be borne.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In II. THE MARKET-PLACE
14  After a brief space, the convulsion grew almost imperceptible, and finally subsided into the depths of his nature.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In III. THE RECOGNITION
15  A revelation, he could almost say, had been granted to him.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XI. THE INTERIOR OF A HEART
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.