Sentence examples for almost from high-quality English sources.

• Almost half the population is Hindu.

• Thus, Almost-Lewis says the following:

• Was it almost like playing lots of parts at once?

• But hopes for the future were dashed almost straight away.

• Almost a quarter (23 per cent) had experienced relationship issues at home.

• Precipitation averages less than 8 inches (200 mm) annually, divided almost evenly between the winter and summer months.

• It looks almost identical to the last generation of MacBook Airs, but is “almost 3.5x faster”, Metz says.

• An economic downturn almost always favors giants like Microsoft, Apple and Amazon, the country’s three most valuable companies.

Use almost in a sentence.

• Where initially most people wouldn't buy most things online, today almost everyone buys almost everything on line.

• His bid was almost 20 times what a Chinese farmer earns in a year, and almost 7 times the country's per capita annual income.

• As the internet allows almost anyone to post almost anything they choose, some of the information on the internet is not accurate.

• From my window, buildings under twenty inches of snow could almost—well, almost—pass for a streetscape from Diedrich Knickerbocker’s day.

• Trump asserted: “If you look at children, children are almost, and I would say almost definitely, but almost immune from this disease.

• Almost unprecedentedly, nearly 95% of parliamentary seats chose the same party as before, leaving New Labour’s huge majority from 1997 almost completely intact.

• I don’t spot anyone famous today, just 39 people who look almost-famous, with almost-famous hair, almost-famous lip jobs and almost-famous bodies.

• The death toll is almost at 500,000, more than twice that of second-placed Brazil, and almost 28 million cases, almost 2.5 times that of next-placed India, according to data gathered by the Johns Hopkins coronavirus research centre.

almost sentence examples

• Mostafa Waziri, secretary-general of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities, described the discovery as “one of a kind” in recent decades, “The colour is almost intact even though the tomb is almost 4,400 years old,” he reportedly said, according to Reuters.

• A surprising number of islanders tell Guardian Australia they’ve never been to or seen the centre, but, to the outside world, the immigration detention centre has become almost representative, almost definitional: the one thing that is known about Christmas Island.

• Luopu county also planned to spend almost 300m yuan ($44m) on “stability control”, including almost $300,000 on a surveillance system to cover all mosques, and funding for almost 6,000 police officers to work in “convenient police stations” and security checkpoints, as well as to patrol residential areas.

• Much like Dunkin', Tim Hortons is a casual, counter-service spot for coffee, breakfast sandwiches, and pastries that can be found on almost every corner in Canada — with almost 5,000 locations, it's Canada's largest restaurant chain and claims to serve almost eight of every 10 cups of coffee sold in the country.