Sentence examples for a line of almost from inspiring English sources

In reaction against his father's policy, Andronicus II pursued a line of almost total isolation from the papacy and the West.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla .— Before the supervisor of elections opened the main polling site here in Duval County at 7 a.m., a line of almost 100 people had already formed, snaking its way along the sidewalk of a strip-mall parking lot.

On Saturday, before the supervisor of elections opened the main polling site of Duval County at 7 a.m., a line of almost 100 voters, all black, had already formed.

But these stark lines, poetic in their allegorical reach rather than in their work and play with language, are preceded by a line of almost pure Crane, "The melancholy bells repeat themselves," referring to no literal bells present earlier in the poem.

Down the left side of the driveway walks a group of children slated for "parent pickup" while down the right a teacher leads a line of almost exclusively African American and Latino kids toward buses.

jokes alone opened up a line of intimate, almost exclusive communication between the comedian and the Commander-in-Chief.

Mr. Rennie and Ms. Skinner's cabin is at one end of a line of four almost identical one-bedroom cabins, part of a community developed and built by Samira.

On Monday, the consular section at the United States Embassy in Paris was the destination for a snaking line of almost 200 people in a grim, wintry mood despite dreams of family holidays in Dallas or conga lines and cocktails in Miami Beach.

A line of fire stretched almost unbroken along a 16-mile front some nine miles from the southern suburbs of Sydney.

Along a 17-hour drive from Tokyo to Kesennuma, cars snaked in a line out of almost every petrol station.

The bunker is located on the most dangerous street in the area – the border between the Sunni and Alawite sides of town, and a front line of almost-weekly gunfights between their respective residents.