Sentence examples for almost misses from inspiring English sources

Today she almost misses the snark.

— Jeff Gordinier Poetry Foundation: A Sara Ries poem about a cook who almost misses the birth of his daughter because he's busy frying up some fish.

Mr. Butler admits to calling the police the first time he heard yelps from down below, but lately he almost misses the aural stimuli.

Calling on presidential hopefuls to justify or recant their vote authorizing the president to take us to war almost misses the point.

And on the rare occasions when the disembodied voice or voices suddenly appear to be that of the artist herself – "Stop Texting" shouts the screen, alternating with dire photographs of car crashes – one almost misses the to and fro for the sense of receiving a public health warning.

She taps into her own guilt over putting work ahead of her family: Liz does, at the end, marry her boyfriend, Criss, and adopt two children (one is black like Tracy Jordan, the other blond like Jenna, the two stars of the sitcom's show within a show) and then is so busy at work that she almost misses greeting her children for the first time at the airport.

I almost miss Shea.

I almost missed them".

Nevertheless, this diagnosis was almost missed.

The granulite facies is almost missing.

Alex Merberg almost missed the bus.