Sentence for almost | Use almost in a sentence

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• I had almost promised it. (4)
• Miss Asper almost laughed. (10)
• Almost at once he fell asleep. (8)
• I could begin almost anywhere. (8)
• The fellow almost haunted one! (8)
• I shall eat almost continuously. (8)
• She almost asked him if she had. (9)
• Our elephant was almost pure white. (21)
• If he sees cruelty, he goes almost mad. (8)
• He saw almost no other expression any more. (12)
• Karen thought it was almost pleasant to be ill. (12)
• Nedda could see herself almost down to her toes. (8)
• A heightening of the reward almost took his life. (10)
• An almost harsh determination was about her mouth. (12)
• This almost formal abdication of fatherhood hurt him. (8)
• Sheila greeted her gruffly, and almost at once went out. (8)
• Still, this theme was almost an exorcism of Mrs. Burman. (10)
• The long patience of the English was now almost worn out. (19)
• He was almost vanquished by the loveliness of her womanhood. (10)
• The novelette can have almost as perfect form as the novella. (9)
• And almost immediately the sound of a pistol shot in the bedroom. (8)
• The landlady curtseyed and smiled, curtseyed and almost whimpered. (10)
• I can almost fancy privation and squalor have no terrors for Janey. (10)
• It appeared almost as if my father had won them over to baffle him. (10)
• It was almost too much for the composure even of a man of the world. (8)
• And they are right good comedy; for which I may say that I almost love them. (10)
• The declarations and novel or ultra theories might almost be written down beforehand. (10)
• Birds were almost silent, the cuckoos had ceased to sing, but wood-pigeons were cooing. (8)
• But the old man detained us almost by force, and insisted on our eating before they began. (20)
• High above all neighbouring houses, she was almost appalled by the majesty of what she saw. (8)
• He is a rather refined-looking man of thirty-five, with a pleasant, almost apologetic voice. (8)
• Or, from the knowledge she has of his circumstances, she may talk to him almost as his wife. (10)
• Robert gladly offered to fetch it, and left them with a sense of relief that was almost joy. (10)
• Robert gladly offered to fetch it, and left them with a sense of relief that was almost joy. (22)
• And as they sat down opposite each other in the almost empty room, Miltoun thought: Yes, he does know! (8)
• The odors of the fresh hay and the perfumes of the flowers were almost intoxicating in their strength. (20)
• The regiment of Haller hussars and two of volunteer uhlans were almost destroyed in that terrible charge. (10)
• The slight cast of sourness on his lower features had almost vanished, his nature seemed to have enlarged. (10)
• Then, gratefully, almost with emotion, she realized that his lips were quivering, his whole face quivering. (8)
• They would plead insanity of some kind and degree, and it would be almost impossible to establish their guilt. (7)
• In the bewildering, still, scentless beauty of that moment he almost lost memory of why he had come to the orchard. (8)
• John felt her soft fingers squeezing his almost desperately, as if her emotions had for the moment got out of hand. (8)
• Stevenson, I think, was almost always happy when he was writing, when the instrument of his art was in his fingers. (2)
• And this, which a week ago would have been rapture, was now almost torture, so far did it fall short of his longing. (8)
• It brought only a hundred and sixty; but the time had almost come already when Westover thought it brought too much. (9)
• He is a small, thick, oldish man, with an almost shaven head, and smouldering little dark eyes behind smoked spectacles. (8)
• The latter habit alone kept his valet from handing in the resignation which the former habit prompted almost every night. (8)
• The Firth seems a leaden creek, that a man might almost jump across, between well-powdered Lothian and well-powdered Fife. (2)
• His heart began suddenly to beat, telling him, almost before his eyes had recognized the bent figure, that this was his wife. (13)
• To his left a man sat reading, with his elbows on the corners of a journal, and his gaunt shoulders raised almost to his eyes. (8)
• I am once again almost without clothes, and know not where to turn to make that figure necessary for the fulfilment of my duties. (8)
• For a moment his face became purple with rage, his eye was almost hid beneath his bent brow, and he absolutely shook with passion. (6)
• Lady Russell took her out in her carriage almost every morning, and she never failed to think of them, and never failed to see them. (4)
• I attribute the attack almost entirely to the tightness of the white neck-cloths the young clergymen of the Established Church wear. (10)
• One darting on another, taking her almost before she knew she was seized, then darting away and leaving her wanting to be seized again. (8)
• Over the cottage piano a violet dust-sheet, faded almost to grey, was spread, and on it the first lavender, whose scent filled the room. (8)
• No; hatred had vanished long ago, and she had almost as long been ashamed of ever feeling a dislike against him, that could be so called. (4)
• On the heels of this exploit, Iberville came ashore, rejoined his superior, and overpowered the almost defenceless garrison of Fort Rupert. (19)
• But in bearing my witness I feel accused, almost as if he were present; by his fastidious reluctance from any recognition of his helpfulness. (9)
• He was a human being who had been robbed of strength and speech and almost vision and consciousness by an experience of the supremest horror. (12)
• To aim at succinctness and brevity merely, as some teach, is to practice a kind of quackery almost as offensive as the charlatanry of rhetoric. (9)
• Stockings were still wanting, but by a mutual concession of her shoe-tops and the border of her skirt, they were almost eliminated from the problem. (9)
• It was an extremely hot day and the streets were dusty, unshaded by trees, and often almost impassable by reason of deep gullies and broken culverts. (20)
• Open, and almost out of reach, was a back volume of Punch, of which periodical, as a landed proprietor, he had an almost professional knowledge. (8)

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Definition of almost:

• almost, awl’mst, adv. nearly, all but, very nearly. (0)

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