Sentence examples for almost served from inspiring English sources

He has almost served half of his 16-year sentence.

This was the afternoon everything finally clicked, when Spurs' supply-line was irresistible and the rivals' goalkeeper so obliging that the flurry of errors almost served to devalue the England striker's contribution.

Vergil tried to flatter Emperor Augustus but made sure that his own tomb bore a simple inscription that almost served to repudiate his ruler's imperial ambitions: "I was born in Mantua; died in Calabria; my bones lie in Naples; pastures, fields, and heroes were the theme of my song".

Fenway's famed left field wall, The Green Monster, almost served as a sort of Berlin Wall seperating the two cultural factions.

Funny how that trauma thumbprint almost served as a sucking vortex, if you will, that pulled future negativity into that day.

This was his first Tournament Of Death and almost served as a first anniversary of sorts for Donst's return to the ring after the discovery of a kidney tumour nearly ended his career.

Although the meat is well done, it's beyond tender -- you can almost serve it with a spoon.

Political ploys under way in Russia could almost serve as an instruction manual for the leadership at either end of New York's City Hall.

But Austen's novelistic world is so circumscribed, her dramas so domestic, that these rapid accountings of daily life almost serve as rough studies.

That helps explain why the Pittsburgh Steelers' ring for their most recent championship, their sixth (a record), could almost serve as a set of brass knuckles for a preschooler.

And with true high-speed rail, Philadelphia airport could almost serve as a New York airport, too it would take well under an hour to get from there to New York's Penn Station.All of this fantasising is fun.