Sentence examples for almost put off from inspiring English sources
Heron Tower, home to groovy restaurant Duck & Waffle, saw my food-reviewing boss almost put off her dinner, so vertigo-inducing was the ride in the lift.
Her sisters are paparazzi-magnets and seeing the intrusion into their lives almost put her off acting altogether.
Philip Pullman, to whom you might suppose her indebted, almost put her off writing: "I loved His Dark Materials.
In an interview with the BBC's Top Gear magazine, Evans revealed the furore over Clarkson's removal from the show in March, after a "fracas" with a producer, had almost put him off the job.
Almost anyone who observes them up close is put off.
I know you studied English Literature at university, which apparently almost put you off reading but not quite.
I also lived a few hundred meters from the Abbey Stadium during the John Beck years, and it almost put me off football altogether.
Lie, the Oslo-raised son of a doctor and an actress, made a childhood foray into acting that yielded "Herman," a movie about a boy who goes bald that became such a hit it almost put Lie off for good.
The tragedy for Algeria is that the whole business will almost certainly put off any chance of a reconciliation between the secular government and the Islamist political opposition.
The writers were still rewriting sketches they'd been rewriting all week and just starting work on the three parts of the show that were almost always put off till the last minute: the cold opening, the host's monologue and Weekend Update.
