Sentence examples for almost courts from inspiring English sources

The phrase "almost courts" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation or action that is very close to or nearly reaches the level of courting or pursuing someone romantically.
Example: "His constant compliments and attention almost courts her affection, but she remains indifferent."
Alternatives: "nearly pursues" or "approaches courting".

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He takes a combative interest in an outspoken black classmate — a new convert to Islam — and almost courts her dislike by telling her how he once broadcast sexual insults over loudspeakers to compel insurgents in Falluja out of their houses so that other marines could shoot them.

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A sizable collection resulted, despite an incident during World War II in which Kahble was almost court-martialed for impersonating a candy inspector and stealing chocolate from European factories.

In no time at all I became so fixated by the inadequacies of these almost-courts that I hated playing on them.

And for almost three decades, courts have followed our edict that arbitration clauses must usually prevail, declining to enforce them in only rare cases.

Almost all courts are now experiencing shortened office hours, closures and staff cuts.

By then, fans were standing in the aisles, and those at the top of the bleachers of adjacent Court 3, which seem to almost overhang Court 2, had turned to cheer.

From the 10th century onward Persian poems were written at almost every court in the Iranian areas, sometimes in dialectical variants (for example, in Ṭabarestāni dialect at the Zeyārid court).

The hunts almost always court controversy.

She attended almost every court proceeding, using vacation time and rearranging her work schedule to keep tabs on the suit.

They are mentioned in epic poems of the time, and records indicate that almost every court employed a nakerer among its regular stable of musicians.

According to the appellate courts: almost always.

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