The phrase "almost lifelike" is correct and can be used in written English.
It can be used to describe something or someone that resembles or imitates life, but not quite fully. For example: 1. The sculpture was so well-crafted, it looked almost lifelike. 2. The special effects in the movie were so advanced that the creatures appeared almost lifelike. 3. Her paintings were so detailed that they seemed almost lifelike. 4. The robot's movements were almost lifelike, making it hard to believe it was not a real person. 5. The virtual reality game was so realistic, it felt almost lifelike.
In action, the vehicles looked almost lifelike as they darted forward and backward, dived in a rush of bubbles, and resurfaced with a splash.
One is almost lifelike, replete with tiny male nipples and chest hair, and a more-or-less realistic head and body.
The almost lifelike -- and nearly life-size -- SimPal is an amusingly irritating mass of mannerisms with loose skin that brings to mind Kevin Spacey's scar-tissue-by-the-yard makeup job in "Pay It Forward".
A few rooms away, a clay cast of Thomas M. Whalen III, the mayor of Albany who died two years ago, sat almost lifelike on a bench, his hand petting a clay dog.
It is the range between obvious cartoons and discernibly real people, where things look almost lifelike, and yet not quite believable.
Chick Hearn and Stu Lantz were almost lifelike, announcing at courtside in Sunday-color-comics sweaters.
Sitting there, observing us (and all new arrivees) was an almost-lifelike rendering of a buccaneer, except this version looks benign, not sinister.
After the novelty wore off, after the radio wore the song out, "To Know Him Is to Love Him" stood simpering, dripping treacle, almost crossing the line from sentimental homily to prayer, a dirge at its most lifelike.
Rather, his brushstrokes became thicker, his descriptions almost abstract in their reliance on light and dark to convey the "deepest and most lifelike emotion," trademark of his work.
Some of the most lifelike moments are the zombies now.
Vuitton's puppet master The lobster, its claws wrapped round its carapace as it nestled behind domed glass, looked almost as lifelike as its companions: stuffed foxes, cats and leopards frozen in time at Deyrolle, the famous Paris taxidermist.
