Sentence examples for almost short from inspiring English sources

A very brisk walk means almost short of breath".

It is a fable, almost, short and crisp, and its very simplicity is incredibly potent.

Still almost short enough to sprint under a turnstile without bumping their heads, they can tell you more about the subway than most MetroCard-carrying adults have forgotten.

Biographies of the writer cannot ignore his last, wasted years, but a new epistolary handbasket, "Too Brief a Treat: The Letters of Truman Capote" (Random House; $27.95), stops almost short of hell, devoting about ninety per cent of its contents to an ambitious artist between the ages of nineteen and forty-two, not the bloated, frantically fallow T.C. of the years after "In Cold Blood".

Westworld was almost short-circuited by fans pre-empting its twists.

The retro affectations are bound up with stuff that sounds very modern: ambient electronics, warped acoustic guitars and an almost short-circuiting distortion.

"During the show, my brain, it would almost short-circuit.

Medeiros admits her dad almost short-circuited when he met her very tall boyfriend.

JPMorgan Chase, meanwhile, would come up almost $1.5 billion short.

But her career and life were almost cut short by tuberculosis.

City governments, after all, are almost always short of cash and it is no exception.