Sentence examples for almost qualified from inspiring English sources

This two-pronged appeal to patriotic pride was so exquisitely subtle that it almost qualified as subliminal messaging.

By the time my friends have finished university I will have almost qualified, so I feel it gives you a head start in your career.

The audience largely remained silent, save for polite rounds of applause and occasional laughter when the speakers tried to lighten the mood with what almost qualified as jokes.

In the Russian gulag, a slang composed of a vocabulary of elaborate curses and criminal parlance almost qualified as a separate language, according to the historian Anne Applebaum.

Another contributor, who almost qualified for the Olympics cycling team when younger, writes about the virtue of performance, of pushing one's body to the limit, and what an "honest" victory or defeat means.

Just as Chris Coleman's current side is weighed against the team that almost qualified for Portugal in 2004, so his was compared to the one that should have made it to the 1994 World Cup.

Madonna almost qualifies as a Neff collector.

In the playoffs, it almost qualifies as an illness.

(Natalie Robin's gorgeous, shadowy lighting design almost qualifies as a 27th performer).

In New York politics, especially at the state level, that almost qualifies as impressive.

He has a job interview tomorrow morning, which almost qualifies him to move back home.