Sentence examples for all but close from inspiring English sources

After 52 years as one of the most heavily used branches of the New York Public Library system, the Donnell Library Center, on West 53rd Street, will all but close at the end of this week.

The weekend blockbuster trade that sent the good Adrian Gonzalez, the bad Carl Crawford, and the ugly Josh Beckett to the Los Angeles Dodgers for a heap of prospects will all but close the book on a horrible season that included constant infighting among the players, injured pitchers getting hammered in the clubhouse, and manager Bobby Valentine being cheerfully ineffective.

Two recent photos might not say it all, but close enough.

Bowie had suffered from cancer for 18 months and also kept his illness a secret from all but close family.

Steep mountains all but close off the basin below, known as the Naka bowl, helping to make it one of the fighters' many havens.

The KGB had tracked down and confiscated a copy of The Gulag Archipelago, Solzhenitsyn's immense camp history that he had written in the deepest secret and concealed for years from all but close intimates.

Officially, the book is now all but closed.

Normally, the country is all but closed to foreign journalists.

As credit markets all but closed, the cheap loans on which they relied dried up.

The city's largest park, Horsh Beirut, is all but closed to the public.

When will it be safe enough to visit the bazaar, which has been all but closed?