Sentence examples for almost pick up from inspiring English sources

Not a day goes by that I don't instinctively almost pick up the phone to speak to him to write about something that has happened that day, and I have to remind myself he's gone.

Some of those jets got so close you could almost pick up a stone and hit them.

In many patient encounters, Colleen and her patients' faces visibly lit up when they saw each other, like old friends seeing one another, and they would almost pick up on an ongoing conversation as if it had been interrupted only a few minutes ago.

Harris goes for one boundary in the over, and almost picks up another wicket.

Meanwhile, Broad almost picks up a consolation wicket when Watling slices one high towards third man, but it just plops safely in front of two converging fielders.

"The initial shot itself would have been a very comfortable save for Boaz, it almost picked up momentum with the deflection".

This morning, I almost picked up a pretty yellow leaf from the ground, to press in my hymnal, but then I thought, I have so many leaves, and I returned it to the tall grass.

A week later — it was the next Friday, actually — I went into a place down in the marina for cocktails with a woman I'd almost picked up after I left Jimmy at the steak house the previous Saturday.

I almost picked up the phone and shouted at them because of this stupid creation made me sound so rude to one important customer when I made a mistake to click this stupid button".

It famously almost picked up SoundCloud.

One highlight was an informative and humorous Friday morning conversation with The Orb's Alex Patterson at the Armory, where Lanois candidly discussed everything from his beginnings in music (he almost picked up the banjo) to meeting collaborator and ambient pioneer Brian Eno for the first time: "It felt like a blazing light came upon me".