Sentence examples for Almost worn out from inspiring English sources

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By that time, Nowell said, "we were almost worn out".

Significant reductions in nitrogen and/or carbon contents were detected for each wear track analyzed, indicating that plasma modified layers were almost worn out for these sliding distances at which sharp transitions in frictional force were recorded.

"This tedious State of Uncertainty and long Waiting, has almost worn out my Patience," he wrote to his wife, asking her to send along a pair of spectacles he had left behind.

Still, he squeezes his personal biculturalism so hard that the reader, wondering just how much literary capital can be pressed out of having been born in Belgium, is almost worn out by the author's exertions.

Or, as The New York Evening Post put it in 1808: "Some wells have been dug in the filthiest corners of the town; a small quantity of water has been conveyed in wretched wooden pipes, now almost worn out, for family use; and in a manner scarcely, if at all, preferable to the former method of supplying water by the carts".

The poet, whose first work had been about the Great war, felt so transported across time that he became oblivious to the cameras' presence and recalled that Patch's hands felt like twigs and his voice "was very low, almost worn out... there were lengthy pauses... gradually I realised they were to let him collect himself".

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To prove my devotion I almost wore out the VHS that I had taped from a late-night Channel 4 screening.

During the two weeks that followed I almost wore out the Central Line as I shuttled back and forth for interview after interview.

"Sense and Sensibility" almost wears out its welcome in the first few seconds, when we find ourselves in a brief and confusing sex scene, which, needless to say, isn't in the book.

One source close to the deal said Henry was "very twitchy" as the end of the business day neared, almost wearing out the carpet as he paced up and down.

As the Pogues toured Europe in autumn 1985, they almost wore out a video of Once Upon a Time in America, Sergio Leone's epic tale of Jewish mobsters in interwar New York.

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