ALMOST in a Sentence

Learn ALMOST from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

328 example sentences for ALMOST, such as:

1. It was almost intolerable to be borne.
2. The man was almost incoherent with fear.
3. In his blind haste he almost ran into the river.
4. He now has an almost unbeatable lead over his rivals.
5. It was almost impossible to pinpoint the cause of death.

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 Meanings and Examples of ALMOST
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almost
 ad.  slightly short of or not quite accomplished
 ad.  nearly
Classic Sentence: (202 in 14 pages)
1  I could now almost fancy myself among the Swiss mountains.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19
2  Here also we made some acquaintances, who almost contrived to cheat me into happiness.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19
3  Despair had indeed almost secured her prey, and I should soon have sunk beneath this misery.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24
4  This faith gives a solemnity to his reveries that render them to me almost as imposing and interesting as truth.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24
5  They retired and I turned towards my friend, but he was sunk in languor and almost deprived of life.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24
6  "I almost made a mistake, too," she declared vigorously.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
7  I almost married a little kyke who'd been after me for years.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
8  "Well, we're almost the last tonight," said one of the men sheepishly.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
9  "I know your wife," continued Gatsby, almost aggressively.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
10  But they made no sound and what I had almost remembered was uncommunicable forever.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
11  The next day was broiling, almost the last, certainly the warmest, of the summer.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
12  This was a forlorn hope--he was almost sure that Wilson had no friend: there was not enough of him for his wife.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
13  It was almost intolerable to be borne.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In II. THE MARKET-PLACE
14  After a brief space, the convulsion grew almost imperceptible, and finally subsided into the depths of his nature.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In III. THE RECOGNITION
15  A revelation, he could almost say, had been granted to him.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XI. THE INTERIOR OF A HEART
Example Sentence: (126 in 9 pages)
16  T-shirts now seem almost de rigueur in the West End.
17  It was almost impossible to pinpoint the cause of death.
18  They are almost as expeditious and effectual as Aladdin's lamp.
19  We mustn't fear daylight just because it almost always illuminates a miserable world.
20  The explosion was almost simultaneous with the announcement.
21  He now has an almost unbeatable lead over his rivals.
22  I almost didn't recognize her - she'd changed so much.
23  In his blind haste he almost ran into the river.
24  The place changed a great deal and was almost unrecognisable.
25  He took an almost gleeful delight in showing how wrong they can be.
26  The grief she felt over Helen's death was almost unbearable.
27  The man was almost incoherent with fear.
28  The old man stood on a pile of bricks almost as high as a house.
29  I'm going to chop down this cherry tree; it has almost stopped producing fruit.
30  When the great fish flipped over on its back,we knew it was almost dead.