Sentence examples for almost late from inspiring English sources

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You were almost late for school.

And yes, we were almost late for the meeting because of me.

Grass was born in the Free City of Danzig – now Gdansk – in 1927, "almost late enough", as he said, to avoid involvement with the Nazi regime.

Born in 1927, "almost late enough", he is haunted by how narrowly he escaped being involved in crimes: "That I wasn't is not by merit".

One afternoon we were almost late for our game drive because we got carried away talking to one of the regulars, a young chap who always wore a thick beanie despite the sweltering 30C heat; on seeing us, he would delve into his bucket to retrieve his most impressive prawn, which he'd dangle high in the air, grinning.

After Henderson said that he wanted to be traded, moaned that he did not want to travel to Japan to open the season with the Mets and finally met with Valentine, Henderson kept talking today and was almost late for practice.

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Similarly, the elaborate Adagio of Opus 18, No. 1, is almost late-Romantic in length.

Liam Polworth fired into the top corner for Inverness and Billy McKay almost levelled late on with a late header.

Since she is almost always late with her rent, she also has to pay a fifty-dollar late fee.

But almost too late.

His budgets were almost always late.

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