almost
Example Sentences
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The atmosphere is so lovely and so precisely drawn you almost don’t want anything to happen.
From Salon
"I visited nearly 80 to 100 farms. Spoke to farmers, understood the challenges, profits and risks, and made my own analysis — almost like analysing stocks," he says.
From BBC
"This has definitely made me more aware and almost made me start doing things that I've always said, 'Oh, we need to do that,'" Alexis says.
From BBC
And it keeps its scale small: Warring nations or governments are barely discussed, the reckless conflict of statesmen taken almost as a given.
We always seemed to be almost late to wherever we needed to go.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
