How to Use almost in a Sentence

almost

adverb

• Goats will eat almost anything.
• Analysts predict that rates will rise by almost 40 percent.
• At one time in the first half, LSU was shooting almost 80% from the field and was 5 of 6 on threes.
  — Wally Hall, arkansasonline.com, 4 Feb. 2024
• One of her sons stands next to her, almost a full head taller.
  — Hannah Sacks, Peoplemag, 5 Sep. 2023
• The Fever are sitting at 2-6 almost a quarter of the way through the season.
  — Indystar Sports, The Indianapolis Star, 12 June 2023
• Arable land in the United States has declined by almost a sixth in the past three decades.
  — WIRED, 14 Oct. 2023
• And so in those times, the script changes almost until like a novel or prose changes form.
  — Yvonne Villarreal, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2024
• The Ice Spice brew packs a punch—in fact, an almost overwhelming one.
  — Abby Wilson, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 Sep. 2023
• But the right side of her lower jaw, where the bullet had burst through her face, was almost powder.
  — Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 4 Feb. 2024
• But then suddenly, there’ll be almost a straight-up pop song in there, too, to mix it up.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 19 Nov. 2023
• The end of season one is almost like a newborn baby opening their eyes and seeing the world for the first time.
  — Brande Victorian, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Apr. 2024
• Recipe Tip This method of making cookies from cake mix can be used with almost any cake mix.
  — Micah A Leal, Southern Living, 30 Dec. 2023
• There's a reason My Name Is Barbra is almost 1,000 pages long.
  — Tom Gliatto, Peoplemag, 18 Nov. 2023
• After trying and failing to get the pontoon to move for almost 45 minutes, Pickett took a small boat to the dock to speak with the boaters.
  — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 11 Aug. 2023
• For almost a month, not a single American was able to leave.
  — Rozina Ali, The New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2023
• Julia Roberts almost stayed on this side of the pond before starring in Notting Hill.
  — Christy Piña, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Jan. 2024
• The vast majority of that sum — almost $28 million — came from claims against the city's police force and jail.
  — Josh Wood, The Courier-Journal, 11 Jan. 2024
• Perhaps that might explain why there was almost (almost) a smile etched across her face.
  — Daniel Rodgers, Glamour, 13 Dec. 2023
• Many people are killed, and the heroes are almost like superheroes.
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Dec. 2023
• By almost three to one, voters think only Trump — and not Mr. Biden — is physically healthy enough for the job, although the two are just a few years apart.
  — Anthony Salvanto, CBS News, 17 Sep. 2023
• Nettie was the same type of lesson, almost in a spiritual way.
  — Kyle Denis, Billboard, 5 Sep. 2023
• The lounge rocker folds almost flat and opens as easily as any other folding chair.
  — Matthew Parker, Rolling Stone, 19 Nov. 2023
• One thing that went almost unreported amidst Biden and Xi's summit is that Xi tripled down on his threats to Taiwan.
  — CBS News, 19 Nov. 2023
• This wasn’t a small matter, this almost led to the criminalization of music.
  — Bob Guccione Jr, Spin, 20 Sep. 2023
• It could be said of almost every defendant charged that his plight is his own fault in that his bad behavior triggered the process.
  — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 30 Dec. 2023
• An uphill climb For decades, the women’s game succeeded almost in spite of itself.
  — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 31 July 2023
• The Sox farm system, was viewed almost universally as no better than a bottom-five crop, and, in the eyes of some, the worst in baseball when Bloom arrived in 2019.
  — Alex Speier, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Sep. 2023
• After almost a year of searching, Gladys‘s family asked her to come back to Huslia.
  — Nicolás Viñuela, NBC News, 7 Nov. 2023
• In fact, almost 60 percent of U.S. consumers plan to take a trip within their state, while 18 percent will travel outside of the country.
  — Dobrina Zhekova, Travel + Leisure, 3 Oct. 2023
• Surveillance video captured the suspect in alleyways and circling Timmons’ home for almost a half-hour before the shooting.
  — Elliot Hughes, Journal Sentinel, 4 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024