Sentence examples for almost humorous from inspiring English sources

The phrase "almost humorous" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is nearly funny or has elements of humor but may not fully achieve it.
Example: "The situation was almost humorous, but the seriousness of the matter overshadowed any laughter."
Alternatives: "nearly funny" or "borderline amusing".

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The army's business operations spread so far that it sometimes seems almost humorous.

His dealings with the dictator's son, Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, are almost humorous.

It went from being quite violent in the lifts, to almost humorous.

In the second, which Leonard called "almost humorous," the MIT car barely made contact with one from Cornell.

'It is almost humorous that of all the actresses I know, I would end up in this position.

Such statements are almost humorous, as they assume that the foreign visitors are passive partners in the whole thing.

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I've also seen it in the almost-humorous lengths to which mainstream journalists will go in writing stories about me without ever contacting me.

Talk about humorous incidents.

Calder's art is also almost always humorous, which modern art tended to be less and less as the 20th century progressed.

She will not charm us: so, though often sardonic, she is almost never humorous ("Do you never laugh, Miss Eyre?" asks Mr Rochester).

Some of the work is almost mockingly humorous in its dealing with the unthinkable – Rita Duffy's Dessert is a chocolate cast taken from a decommissioned AK47 paramilitary gun – but other works uncompromisingly face grim facts.

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