Sentence examples for almost dismissing from inspiring English sources

When he first made this point, "People took it in a way that I was almost dismissing what I am.

When Ms. Philbin was approached by the search committee, she said, she almost dismissed the idea.

And does anyone know if KP becomes all tongue-tied and hesitant at the mic when a left-arm spinner comes on?" 4th over: West Indies 37-0 (Charles 11, Gayle 22) Ach! Broad almost dismisses Gayle with his first ball.

"I did say to him, there are all these rumors of coup plotting, which we were very concerned about, and he almost dismissed them," the diplomat, who asked not to be named, said in an interview from Washington.

When Mervyn LeRoy's ESCAPE (1940) opened at Radio City Music Hall, Bosley Crowther, writing in The New York Times, almost dismissed it as just another chase film but declared it "suspenseful and excitingly melodramatic" with "the proportions of a deeply human document".

Five years later, the Met's curator of paintings was almost dismissed for proposing to buy a Cézanne from the Armory Show, and the museum flatly turned down a Gauguin it was offered as a gift in 1915.

He was almost dismissed for five but Michael Klinger dropped him at slip.

"A lot of managers look at the early rounds of the Johnstone's Paint Trophy and almost dismiss them," said Turner.

Like many in officialdom here, he almost dismisses the row over the Maracana delays as a "bureaucratic problem" and maintains that everything has now been settled.

He almost dismissed Richard Oliver, who was playing Minor Counties cricket with Shropshire only a few weeks ago, with his first delivery, but the ball flew just out of the reach of Croft on its way to the cover boundary.

People I've talked to who have those non-intercourse experiences sort of almost dismiss the whole idea of losing their virginity, like, "That's not for us".