almost

Example Sentences

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For many years, reporting a case like Emily's was almost impossible, because of privacy rules governing Family Court proceedings.

From BBC • May 26, 2026

It bounded down the stairs and almost ran me over.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 25, 2026

Gnawing, almost unbearable heartbreak acts as the catalyst for a layered analysis of the ways humans — or, in the case of “The Sheep Detectives,” humans and their woolly friends — ache to forget.

From Salon • May 25, 2026

Everyone otherwise received current standard care, and researchers followed them for a median of almost four years.

From Science Daily • May 25, 2026

How grateful I was now for Father’s insistence that his children speak German and English almost as soon as Dutch.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom