Sentence examples for almost knowing from inspiring English sources

The phrase "almost knowing" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a state of being on the verge of understanding or awareness, but not fully there.
Example: "She had an almost knowing look in her eyes, as if she understood more than she was letting on."
Alternatives: "nearly aware" or "close to understanding".

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For a moment she thought it could be one of her sons, but she realised as the child was swept past that she was mistaken: "I stared into this unknown landscape, still wondering if I was dreaming, but fearing, almost knowing, I was not".

Murder is in the air, but there's an almost knowing slyness in Simon's conversational delivery, delighting in what appears to be the imminent comeuppance of "the winners, the grinners with money-colored eyes".

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Captain Sullenberger, in a short space of time, restored a large area of good feeling about ourselves and about this country that we'd missed badly but almost without knowing it.

Almost without knowing it, I had slipped into his skin.

It felt almost surreal knowing that all this information was being transferred over such varied terrain and conditions.

As he stands at the microphone on Lou Gehrig Appreciation Day, almost certainly knowing his fate, he musters extraordinary perspective and grace.

"She is always leading all of us, it's almost annoying knowing before we start that Lindsey will probably be first," Maze said.

It's about a little flash, glimpsed for half a paragraph at the bottom of a left-hand page, that fills you with something almost like knowing.

One of the liberties of our connected age is that we can be almost infinitely knowing, consoling our lack of true knowledge with an easy cynicism of acquisition.

Some of his competitors seem almost resigned, knowing that if Woods plays his best, he can leave the field behind like an airplane accelerating at takeoff.

Of the two, Geithner owed less but should have paid a higher political price, since he was appointed to run the I.R.S., among other things, and since his "mistake" was, for at least two years of delinquency, almost certainly knowing.

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