Sentence examples for almost deserved from inspiring English sources

"The setback for the pro-choice movement is almost deserved".

There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.

So far, the one major ratings success for a nostalgia show this month almost deserved it.

By doing so, he lifted the lid on years of international indifference to the plight of thousands of people fleeing a variety of human rights crises in the Horn of Africa, who fall victim to highly organised and brutal gangs of Bedouin people-traffickers in Sudan, Libya and Egypt, but have been dismissed as economic migrants who, in the eyes of some, almost deserved their fate.

Had all England's best chances but not his day in a game that almost deserved to end goalless.

I almost deserved this.

The differentiations in Mr. Baker's workmanship almost deserve their own movie.

There's something disappointingly inane about their reaction - they almost deserve the Spice Girls instead.

Is the idea of a $400 stroller so outlandish that, on some level, those who have so lost sight of their own privilege as to leave one unattended almost deserve to be robbed?

And he has two ice creams, playing a supporting role, that almost deserve star billing: the port-butter ice cream that comes with his cinnamon gratin in a black-walnut crust, and the chestnut ice cream that sits alongside a warm bitter chocolate cake.

And from the moment he flies onstage on a giant wrecking ball, in the first of an amazing series of 14 frocks (which are so witty and beautiful – one of which cost £1,500 to make – they almost deserve their own show), entertaining everybody looks like very hard work.