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
You know that moment when really liking someone turns into a radiant love - overwhelming, a little frightening and almost exasperatingly fresh?
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!)
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.
Just the other day, I was almost run over by a two-wheeling speed demon who felt that a four-way stop applied to everyone but him and his Schwinn. Keith Ecker: Bikers vs. Drivers vs. Pedestrians: The War Wages On
For him, cruelty was a legitimate and necessary procedure, almost a profession of faith, and European artists showed him how to excruciate a tame local reality.
And its world was a narrow swamp, a grey, nubiferous environment, where it lived its contented, active, idyllic, almost mindless existence. The Voyage of the Space Beagle
Almost all of them were familiar with some online catalogue.
This makes is seem inevitable that the scanning device which supposedly generates higher-order experiences of our first-order visual experience would have to be almost as sophisticated and complex as the visual system itself.
It was mid autumn and the leaves were already starting to swirl around me as a harsher wind blew, creating almost a curtain of color each time the breeze came.
At this level the bifurcation of the abdominal aorta into common iliac arteries has almost been completed.
Many had difficulty negotiating the cross-drive obstacle, where often it was not until they were almost upon it that is was clear whether the sheep were going through or around the outside.
Eventually almost all postwar writers whose work departs significantly from convention have come to be labeled "postmodernist," a term that has definable meaning but that also has been used as an aid in this lashing-out, a way to further disparage such writers both by lumping them together indiscriminately and by identifying their work as just another participant in literary fashion. Postmodernism
The two leads give crackerjack performances, their timing, dynamism and interaction almost flawless.
Without treatment, she will almost certainly die.
His love-making is passionate and impulsive, joyous almost to rowdyism. The Confessions of a Beachcomber
But in accordance with the idea that malaria is a product of paludal decomposition, the trees selected have almost always been the _eucalyptus_. Scientific American Supplement, No. 458, October 11, 1884
When Mary Ann wasn't home, he could almost always be found in his video aerie, lost in the soothing ether of the Quasar. BABYCAKES
And the first ranks have been followed by what one might almost call a levée en masse of those that remained. England's Effort: Letters to an American Friend
Chain car collisions on the Interstate, hysteria-tinged second by second updates from the weatherman on the local TV stations, a stunned, awestricken look from the locals that almost made one think that this was surely the first time they had ever seen this precipitation thing occurring. Election Central Sunday Roundup
They spearfish & dive for lobster, but almost never fish with hook & line. Which Fishing Cult is the Most Insane?
She was older, a yellow-haired journeyman holist almost womanly in the fullness of her body. THE BROKEN GOD
The unions had almost no influence on the factory floor and were ineffective in collective bargaining.
Politics: its always whose ox is being gored (almost). The Volokh Conspiracy » President Ron Paul?
They stood, without any respect for regularity, on each side of a straggling kind of unpaved street, where children, almost in a primitive state of nakedness, lay sprawling, as if to be crushed by the hoofs of the first passing horse. The Waverley
After the almost funereal beginning of the first movement, the clarinets introduce a lyric second theme, which is treated in the graceful manner of a siciliana. NPR Topics: News
Fire ants feed on almost any plant or animal material, including vulnerable reptile and ground-bird hatchlings.
In the strict sense overfine speeches are yet almost everywhere. Robert Louis Stevenson: a record, an estimate, and a memorial
Alex was almost speechless with rage and despair.
Khad's slight build and almost feminine looks gave him a delicate look.
It was grey with pain, already almost a death mask and beginning to melt invisibly into the charnel of the killing field. WALL GAMES
As luck would have it the winds had been howling onshore for almost a solid week.
When the evictors arrived at one home they found only a bedridden woman, Margaret Mackay, who was almost 100 years old.
The much anticipated The Twilight Saga: Eclipse premiere is almost here and we will be hosting a live stream of the red carpet arrivals! TWILIGHT SAGA NEWS JUNE 16TH: ECLIPSE PREMEIRE, CULLEN FAMILY, ROBERT PATTINSON & MORE | Open Society Book Club Discussions and Reviews
The seething sense of unfairness is almost palpable. Times, Sunday Times
It was a marriage and a lifestyle that almost destroyed him.
The prose is of a rare stateliness and intelligence, studded with clever, sometimes almost epigrammatic mots.
An almost seam free marble floor can be inlaid with tracery, borders, natural mosaics and other patterns in an infinite number of ways.
Poland has ten symphony orchestras, seventeen conservatories, over one hundred music schools, and almost one thousand music centers.
After several days of climbing, high on a huge, exposed face of Annapurna, a mountain almost double the height of Mont Blanc, a storm erupted and the two men decided to descend.
None of us wanted to ‘need’ cigarettes almost desperately and to feel insecure and anxious without them.
The goal was another peg, some 30 feet and almost horizontally leftwards across yet another blank wall.
With a minimal investment, investors can bet whether almost the entire market will rise or fall.
Life for some researchers has become almost intolerable. Times, Sunday Times
The searing heat and dense, acrid smoke inside a burning building make it almost impossible for firefighters to see what is around them. Times, Sunday Times
He is almost 30, his name is Toji, and he lives in Shizuoka, Moon’s hometown. Let’s Die Together
Forecasters are warning of almost an inch of rain an hour as showers hit. The Sun
It's almost impossible to climb up the cliff.
Feeling almost fond, I read it. Times, Sunday Times
Someone said to me, they thought it was markable that Edna Lewis was a chef during the time when there were few black men and almost no women chefs. Memories of Southern Chef Edna Lewis
It's almost too much to take in when some mischievous monkeys try to hitch a ride with us. The Sun
No part of the lunar globe became visible in relief against circumfluous solar radiance on any of the plates exposed at Grenada; and what vestiges of "structure" there were, came out almost better _upon_ the moon than _beside_ her, thus stamping themselves at once as of atmospheric origin. A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition
During a secret speech in February 1956 (which was almost immediately leaked to the Western media) he condemned the policies of the hitherto much admired Stalin and accused him of hideous crimes.
What was supposedly impossible, rapid large swings in currency values, became an almost everyday event.
As he wheeled once more she caught a glimpse of his face, almost indistinguishable beneath the mask of dirt and blood.
For two days it had been snowing, great flakes so plume-like that they seemed almost artificial, making one think of the blizzards which originate high in theatre-flies under the sovereignty of a stage-hand who sweats at his task of controlling the elements. Then I'll Come Back to You
Stewart's pigeon house almost succumbed under a drift six feet high, and half the pigeons escaped where the weight of sand forced an opening in the galvo.
It was a Sunday, so she could lie in till almost lunch time.
There is no doubt that the voters wanted to shake up the status quo and they have done this by creating what is almost a hung parliament.
I had one forged from a white metal, capable of piercing almost any armour worn by man.
~~~~~~~~~French Vocabulary~~~~~~~~ en tout cas = in any case; façon de parler = so to speak; à peu près = almost, more or less; le français (m) = French; l'anglais (m) = English; le bât (m) = packsaddle Faux amis - French Word-A-Day
I live in a part of the country which is almost completely dominated by the bibliolatrous mindset.
In an almost unnoticeable state like light or air, it could hang like a painting, existing at the edge of perception.
It is the other side of a public bridle path and almost overgrown with vicious brambles. Times, Sunday Times
Usually, fixed format cards documented the format on the top edge of the card, since keypunches almost always printed their textual information along this edge.
Preparation for the top government officers' visit are almost complete.
All this he said in an uninflected voice, almost as though he were talking to himself. GALILEE
Whereas quotations with an apothegmatic feel are normally ascribed to Shaw, those with a more grandiose or belligerent tone are almost automatically credited to Churchill.
And in almost all of the lusterware there's the constant reminder of the debt owed to the 12th - and 13th-century Persian ceramic tradition. Upper Broadway's Buried Treasures
The problem is that their remarkable efficiency allows them to overproduce almost any commodity, so agriculture tends to lurch from surplus to surplus.
Almost half a century later their privileged lifestyle and their aura of being an exclusive caste still attracted comment.
But considering how much time we spend on that time of the month - from puberty to menopause, the average woman menstruates almost seven whole years - many of us know surprisingly little about it.
The recovery is on track, the current-account surplus is healthy, capital flows are strong, companies are restructuring and the recapitalization of banks is almost complete.
The chimney, usually of lath and plaster, ending overhead in a cone and funnel for the smoke, was so roomy in old cottages as to accommodate almost the whole family sitting around the fire of logs piled in the reredosse in the middle, and there they carried on their winter's work. The Life of Thomas Telford
Penguin used to do these great science fiction paperback editions, and they had one series with really evocative paintings — glossy, garish, almost hyperrealist — on the covers. Ballardian » The 032c Interview: Simon Reynolds on Ballard, part 2
But now it is reported that your Englishmen (whom I may almost call the lordes of the Ocean sea) make yeerely voyages vnto Gronland: concerning which matter if you please to giue me further aduertisement, you shall doe me an especial fauour. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
Application of the word "privatization," however, is almost always a misuse of the English language, albeit one that has become so common that it falls automatically off the tongue and flows unchecked past the ear. Ken Allen: Say 'Corporatization,' Not 'Privatization'
I thought we were never going to reach it; and then, almost unexpectedly, we suddenly came upon it - a small but ancient village, rising up on a slight eminence, but concealed from view by big clumps of tall-growing reeds.
The company has an almost fetishistic attachment to narrowcasting.
Its curved frame suggests almost a modern reinterpretation of the bentwood chair.
The move "bedward" was almost simultaneous and the drift toward slumberland not far behind. Campfire Girls at Twin Lakes The Quest of a Summer Vacation
The government is at a stage where it is willing to talk to almost anyone.
And she, warm with what Dick had just told of him, pleasured at the goodly sight of him, dwelling with her eyes on the light, high poise of head, the careless, sun-sanded hair, and the lightness, almost debonaireness, of his carriage despite his weight of body and breadth of shoulders. CHAPTER XXIII
From almost two hundred field offices, more than two thousand special agents teletyped all new data daily to Headquarters in Washington, where an army of clerks indexed it for easy retrieval.
The dieting cycle moves to a rhythm almost as strict as that of the seasons. Times, Sunday Times
Almost 1,200,000 tonsillectomies and/or adenoidectomies are performed each year in India.
When I sat up again, I felt a pleasant glow spreading from my shoulder down to my elbow, and I found that the arm had complete freedom of movement again with almost no pain.
To illustrate, No. 2 of Table 2 may be characterized as a "right whirler," for he turned to the right almost uniformly. The Dancing Mouse A Study in Animal Behavior
The dense thicket of rules and exceptions will drive away, or drive mad, almost anyone else.
And yet I often wonder whether even he might not have found the last six years almost too highly “accidented” even for him. The Adventure of Living
It almost feels like we're a bunch of paupers waiting outside a rich man's house.
But as if divining his thoughts -- just as they passed through the dining-room door, Euphra looked round at him, almost over Funkelstein's shoulder, and, without putting into her face the least expression discernible by either of the others following, contrived to banish for the time all Hugh's despair, and to convince him that he had nothing to fear from Funkelstein. David Elginbrod
As usual with Saab, the design of the instruments and controls is almost perfect although the cruise control stalk is partly hidden from view.
It may have been the biting cold wind that concentrated minds on my questions, but contrary to what opinion surveys are finding, almost nobody owned up to being a don't know or no-show.
She's almost blind in her right eye.
I grasped his hands in mine, so tightly they almost cracked under the pressure.
Almost all non-functional programmers are unaware that tail calls facilitate a programming paradigm that they have never seen. Reddit.com: what's new online!
Cook the cauliflower until almost melting - if it is slightly crunchy, it won't liquidise to a velvety consistency.
Clinton almost delivered his own political obituary in droning on far longer than he should have, although by 1992 that was mostly forgotten. Your Right Hand Thief
A large brain relative to body size is an almost universal foetal characteristic of vertebrates, and certainly of mammals.
He was almost sixty then, yet his body still was trim and powerful, and he loved to romp with us children in the sea.
Pictures like "Snoball," which portrays a snow-cone shack with a yellow topped cone is softened by his gentle sense of humor: it is almost a "Pop" painting. John Seed: Rod Penner: Rust on Poles, Crumbling Asphalt, Light Hitting the Grass (PHOTOS)
Skeletal tuberculosis is a haematogenous infection and affects almost all bones.
Black Mountain had been seeking a new campus almost from its founding.
Find supermarket shopping almost impossible now, barely able to walk let alone push a trolley so did my first internet shop last night. AND GOD CREATED THE AU PAIR
The mini-trampoline rebounder gets amazing results for almost anyone.
They've got these almost like paper, or some kind of jumpsuits on, their heads covered. CNN Transcript Jul 29, 2005
It's almost hypnotic—the scratching of the pencil on the page.
The tan dries almost instantly, so I hit the hay. The Sun
The employee needs to probe deeply and almost overcommunicate why they wanted to leave and see if it will change in the future," says Peter Vergano, senior manager of human-resources strategic staffing for Samsung Electronics Americas. When to Take a Counteroffer From Your Employer
The show's final half hour was almost faultless. Times, Sunday Times
The regulation might almost be judged in restraint of trade. Times, Sunday Times
Some weeds, such as chickweed, common groundsel, and bittercress, may germinate and grow at almost any time of year.
How much the world revolves almost entirely around the male gaze. Times, Sunday Times
A rocky shore almost certainly provides a clearer echo than a sandy slope or mud flat.
Almost all areas are blighted by misbehaving youths at night. Times, Sunday Times
Society may be full of poisonous vapors and be built on a framework of lies; it is nevertheless prudent to consider whether the ideal advantages of disturbing it overweigh the practical disadvantages, and above all to bear in mind that if you rob the average man of his illusions, you are almost sure to rob him of his happiness. Henrik Ibsen
The Queen heard it as well, for Margaret saw her shoulders stiffen almost imperceptibly.
Good fishing for sportsmen and women also means good fortune for those who must feed their families almost entirely by fishing - loons, ospreys, bald eagles and cormorants.
I remember on this occasion of our last sugar bush in Minnesota, that I stood one day outside of our hut and watched the approach of a visitor -- a bent old man, his hair almost white, and carrying on his back a large bundle of red willow, or kinnikinick, which the Indians use for smoking. Indian Boyhood
But it was the bowler's general bearing and neatness which charmed the young writer almost as much as the name he'd been seeking for his newly conceived character of a gentleman's gentleman. From Jeeves to Herriot: all creatures great and sporty | Frank Keating
Danny looked almost glad to be going.
This wonderful diverse stretch of woodland clings tenaciously to the almost precipitous sides of the gorge.
Following close behind her, Lily could almost feel Marion breathing on her neck.
But, hey, the show is so earnest and eager to please that such things are almost easy to overlook.
The almost desperate character of the effort to silence or drown out antiwar protests suggests that something more than mindless flag-waving is going on here.
Of course, it's not all about the image and the looks (except that, in the case of this particular preening bunch of fops in their heyday, it was almost entirely about the image and the looks).
She estimated that she's counselled about 400 people, almost all of them women, since founding the organisation.
When he was fairly mastered, after one or two desperate and almost convulsionary struggles, the ruffian lay perfectly still and silent. Chapter LIV
The urge for victory was almost palpable. Sir Alf: A Major Reappraisal of the Life and Times of England's Greatest Football Manager
The little village was almost medieval - ox carts pulled the harvest in and the farmers all wore wooden clogs. Times, Sunday Times
Considering that the ship has been down almost 60 years, the wooden decking is in most places surprisingly intact, though it has rotted almost completely away in some areas.
But when it comes time to make that decision, almost 40 per cent of us fail to remove our posteriors from the couch and forfeit our voice in the nation's affairs.
She has been honing her craft for almost 20 years.
Today, spruced-up Times Square is in the midst of a surprising, almost surreal transformation into a family-oriented entertainment center.
We may almost believe that the disorder is born with them, like their frightful plica. A Philosophical Dictionary
The country is preparing for an almost complete withdrawal of foreign troops and diminishing international aid that forms the bulk of its economy. Times, Sunday Times
While in the daytime it looked just kept enough to be scruffy, the thick cool of the night hid its dinginess and transformed it into something almost beautiful.
And so we have something that's almost like automatic speaking, speaking in tongues, connected - bing!
Above all, she has the confidence to slow the narrative tempo down almost to zero: a condition of stasis in which the moment is held, like a musical note, for as long as she wishes it.
Almost every film made, anywhere in the world, follows the spirit of the yin and the yang.
The girl was aroused, her expression mirroring her mentor's almost exactly as she raptly observed the scene. In the Midnight Hour
What the BLS calls multifactor productivity is up almost 8% since 2000. Think Progress » Fox News: Election Results Show ‘Conservative USA’
Consequently, when characters share on-screen space, it is almost claustrophobic because of the heavy presence of repressed longings and unspoken desires.
The insect body has produced an almost infinite variety of forms.
The scheme became a common trope in detective fiction, but there are almost no documented cases of a criminal forging another person's fingerprint.
If the Trips,” she said, referring to her triplet grandchildren, “hadn’t brought you here that special Christmas almost three years ago, I might never have gotten to know you. Family Blessings
However, Nature, that at first sight appears so lovely, is on consideration almost always incomplete; moreover, there is no painting intertangled foliage without losing half its beauties. The Mind of the Artist Thoughts and Sayings of Painters and Sculptors on Their Art
His new job was almost a rest cure after the stresses of the army.
Tradition took root and the ball has heralded a new beginning almost every year since - in 1942 and 1943, during World War II, the ball was temporarily put out of commission by a war-time "dimout. TIME.com: Top Stories
Almost all of the fatal cases of helminthic infection in the United States are caused by an autoinfecting nematode.
It's a mistake they almost always make.
So we struggled for another three weeks, until the schools closed in late December for almost two months of winter vacation.
Upon all vegetable lakes, except those of madder, they have a destructive effect; and are injurious to gamboge, as well as to those almost obsolete pigments, red and orange leads, king's and patent yellow, massicot, and orpiment. Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists
Yet many people will swear that they produce almost instantaneous results. Times, Sunday Times
There then followed a redetermination of almost all of the other atomic weights arrived at by Stas (with the exception of carbon), and these too, in the majority of cases, were found to require exchanging for more exact values. Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1914 - Presentation
Her illegitimate position has rendered her wraithlike and insubstantial, almost disembodied.
By comparison, the current hunger strike - in which 12 of the 13 were being force-fed as of Friday - seems almost symbolic.
He lit a cigarette and almost gagged on the smoke; nevertheless, he persisted until the tobacco calmed him. THE LAST RAVEN
We rode into the clearing and the sound of the river rushing seemed almost unreal.
His eyes and forehead were enlarged; the bearded chin, and his mouth, which she'd thought so fine, almost vestigial. THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW
In time folk memory faded and with the passing of those who had lived through the events of 1903 the Gordon Bennett Race became an almost forgotten note in the annals of Irish motoring history.
He had steely blue eyes and almost perfect tanned skin.
It is almost hard not to feel a tinge of sympathy for Sturridge. Times, Sunday Times
He had woken at half past five in an almost empty hut, a reveille different from any other. THE OPEN DOOR
As the car approached a garage it came almost to a stop.
The boat lurched 370 and Thorn thumped a shinbone against the glass coffee table and almost went down. BLACKWATER SOUND
I learned the word dépanneur 'convenience store'; I heard the affricated d and t; I did not notice the tense/lax vowels or the -tu questions; I did notice the contractions (chais &c) and a feature nobody mentioned in the comments, the raising of nasalized vowels: vent sounded almost like vin (with /æ/ as in hat), and vin had a high [e] and sounded diphthongized ([veiN]) -- in fact, one guy said matin so that it struck my ears as [matiN]. Languagehat.com: MONTREAL 2.
This year, almost a billion birds will be processed in the region.
The state makes almost a quarter of each year's wine production into brandy and the aniseed-flavoured spirit raki (like arak) which, drunk with water, is the Turks' favoured alcoholic drink.
A key reason was that predictions of fossil fuel use rely heavily on economic predictions, which have been shown to be almost useless. Times, Sunday Times
This method resulted in an almost instant purification of molecules, using filtration to separate the chemical reagents from the products.
Despite predictions of almost unbounded mobility, most people in industrialised nations are less physically active than ever before.
The President and his supporters are almost certain to read this vote as a mandate for continued economic reform.
Again, the music's mood is ritualistic and almost fiercely celebratory.
He dipped his fingers in water, spun the bowls using a foot treadle and then played them almost like a piano.
Nel had also been seen loitering near her home almost daily, standing there while watching her house.
Olivia suffers from two rare conditions which severely restrict almost everything she does.
With white lights twinkling around the street-facing windows, a single red rose on our table and the candle lamp glowing between us, our fondue dinner felt almost romantic.
In contrast to liberty, equality is an almost intangible romantic dream, to be realized sometime in the future.
_a priori_ almost impossible that the inhabitants of Wenus had never heard of Pozzuoli -- would guard me from the jellifying Mash-Glance of the The War of the Wenuses
Some parts of the country are almost bare of vegetation.
Home builders have almost abandoned building homes for first-time buyers and moved upscale to attract all-cash buyers.
In fact, my computer is almost slower without my working enchantments on it.
Yet there were almost three decades of struggle before she tasted success.
‘It's just fun, almost a caricature version of rockabilly,’ adds the Gutter Demon's bassist Flipper.
He would also be a marvelous attraction for a graduate school of almost any-thing.
Investors 'paper losses on U.S. stocks now total $8.4 trillion since the market peak one year ago, based on the value of the Dow Jones Wilshire 5000 index, which includes almost all U. S.-based companies. Wild Day Caps Worst Week Ever for Stocks
The top of the picture is a dark pall, through which the canvas shows as almost invisible gold filigree. The Times Literary Supplement
Rima's dusky ayah, Asha, at eighteen almost a child herself, makes up the required third player in their games.
Where the horizontal elements of the paneling collected the most smalt, there is an almost neon glow to the blue.
NBC has already made the decision to banish it to Saturday nights starting April 18th, so its chances of renewal are almost nill. Television Review – Kings
Their conceptions of the battles between good and evil were almost identical, with Christianity adopting millennial epochs that were integral to Mithraism from Zoroastrianism .
Another satisfying feature of these sandals is their looks… the active sandals unlike many others appear graceful and go with almost all the casuals.

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