almost

How To Use almost In A Sentence

• It would almost be better to have no backbench bills at all than the current system, which offers a false glimmer of hope. Times, Sunday Times
• Which is stupid, considering the drivers around here A: Don't normally stop for people and in fact have been caught trying to sneak ~around~ them and B: I've been nicked several times and almost hit three times different instances last summer attempting to obey the biking laws, none of those for mistakes on my part as I've been scared shitless at the lack of aware driving that's crept over my town. The funny thing about Pain..... (Let's talk trauma!)
• You know that moment when really liking someone turns into a radiant love - overwhelming, a little frightening and almost exasperatingly fresh?
• Added to which there is a large increase in the fees receivable in 1994 to a level of almost £123,000 which accounts for the large increase in the gross profit over the previous and subsequent years.
• If all this seems a little negative, let me assure you I now feel an almost pathological fondness for the place. Times, Sunday Times
• Save for a worktable placed almost exactly in the center of the floor, I see only a few benches, some unlit rush lamps, a large set of scales, and a wooden crate, which I discover upon examination contains small crystal vials waiting to be filled. Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer
• While a video screen adds a few visual puns, it seems almost an afterthought. Times, Sunday Times
• It was almost like my old dad was winking at me to help me notice him.
• And we -- it does extent all the way up toward Jacksonville, all the way down into West Palm Beach, all the way over to Fort Myers, and northward, almost kind of budging into the pan -- the Big Bend area, almost into the Panhandle, but not quite just yet. CNN Transcript Sep 5, 2004
• These small exquisitely carved ivory figurines come in an almost limitless variety.