Sentence examples for almost scrapping from inspiring English sources

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As Mould writes in his 2011 memoir, See a Little Light: The Trail of Rage and Melody, he submitted the song to the original "Daily Show" creators after almost scrapping it altogether.

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QUICK READ You can almost scrap your checkbook when paying bills these days.

In fact, it's a bit like the creche that, thanks to the education cuts, was almost scrapped at Goldsmith's university, where Williams studies.

Following an online leak of the screenplay, Tarantino almost scrapped the project after suing Gawker, the online outlet that linked to the hacked document.

KASHIMA, Japan -- When the Shimane nuclear plant was first proposed here more than 40 years ago, this rural port town put up such fierce resistance that the plant's would-be operator, Chugoku Electric, almost scrapped the project.

Sunday night's Oscar ceremony, which was almost scrapped because of the US writers' strike, averaged 32 million viewers in the US, down 20% on last year's 40 million.

In the 1980s, our engagement was almost scrapped one Thanksgiving after I declined to join his mother, aunt and cousin as they stood over his bed, wringing their hands while he moaned in the delirious throes of a 99.3-degree "fever".

Dirty Dancing, which was made for a modest budget and almost scrapped by its studio, became a massive box-office hit, earning Golden Globe nominations for both of its stars and spawning the Oscar-winning hit single (I've Had) The Time of My Life.

I almost scrapped my plans to write this article because I began to think my response was simply a fluke.

The current trains haemorrhage public money and the sleepers were almost scrapped altogether when the railways were privatised in the mid-1990s.

An entire album was made and almost completely scrapped in 2011 – although many of those tracks have now seen the light on the new Shields: Expanded reissue.

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