Sentence examples for almost crushed by from inspiring English sources

Actually, when I was almost crushed by the pressure, this phrase pushed me to move forward.

But Ms. Munro was always oppressed, almost crushed by Vancouver's fabled vistas.

The characters in Shalimar the Clown, by contrast, are almost crushed by the freight of nations that they carry around on their shoulders.

His wrecking crew was almost crushed by the wall's collapse, so he has sounded a retreat, heeding the protests from the newsroom that he used to scorn.

But seen from adult height, scampering along the sidewalk, almost crushed by shoes and tyres, they are absurdly little - especially macho Buzz.

In his half dozen or so novels and story collections, the prolific, fanciful, unrestrained, sometimes outrageous Mr. Mo has created a universe full of earthy and craggy characters all of whom are battered, bruised, almost crushed by the undignified outrages of ordinary life.

As the CEO described it, the India strategy was almost "crushed under its own weight by doubt".

Independent India's obsession with socialism almost crushed the Godrejs.

And then a gigantic rock almost crushed me to death.

Almost every war fired black hopes for equal treatment, but those hopes almost always were crushed by the realities of racism at home by war's end.

A misunderstanding gets magnified by these impossible expectations, and the ensuing disappointment is almost crushing to so many of these people.