Sentence examples for almost a duty from inspiring English sources
It seemed almost a duty".
And now this stance had become habitual, almost a duty.
"I think in an old-fashioned sense it is almost a duty.
Among other things, I felt almost a duty to go forth and multiply.
It's almost a duty if you like – there's an old-fashioned word for you.
Raised on the belief that success was available to all hardworking Americans and was almost a duty, many of the new poor blamed themselves.
The prime minister said: "It is a right, some might almost say a duty, of young people to want to go out and have a good time, and they should be able to do that".
(607 Male aged 18 years) However, some young adults were aware of the way the appointments system operated which appeared to be acceptable and suitable to them: "If you ring up before 10 in the morning they well get almost like a duty doctor to phone you back … and they will decide if you need to be seen that day or within three days, so it's very, very quick there".
The BBC's journalists, as individuals, hold impartiality as almost a sacred duty.
In an era when the sponsors, not the networks, produced shows, Shore's enthusiastic performance helped to persaude a generation of car buyers that buying a Chevy was almost a patriotic duty.
