well-nigh
Example Sentences
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And, outside the professional world, it seems well nigh impossible to view a group of people as fully human if you refuse, categorically, to have them as friends.
From The New Yorker • Mar. 31, 2017
Getting the ball past the great wall of Murray seemed well nigh impossible, too, on Sunday, but for all the good cheer in victory, this was hardly a lighthearted afternoon in general on Centre Court.
From New York Times • Jul. 10, 2016
Distinguishing between extremists and moderates, he added, was well nigh impossible, because it’s “very hard to define. It’s very hard to separate. Because you don’t know who’s who.”
From Time • Jun. 14, 2016
In long works such as “Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction” — and even more so in his talks and essays — Stevens can be well nigh incomprehensible.
From Washington Post • Apr. 6, 2016
Bono had, through his exertions—the boat being well nigh intractable, now swamped—snapped off the rowlock and a stave of the gunwale, wet with rot.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
