Sentence examples for almost stand from inspiring English sources

Each story traces the progress of a doomed love triangle, and each could almost stand alone as a novella.

The script would still tell the same story, but each of its acts would almost stand alone, at the approximate length of a Stooges short.

Indeed, those four parks have demonstrated such fund-raising prowess, because of their conservancies and "friends" groups, that they almost stand in a class apart.

The first two sections can almost stand on their own as a meditation on the impossibility of fully knowing another person, or of plumbing the past.

Blanchard later told me that Lee is unusual for his love of highly melodic scores that can almost stand on their own in live performance.

"They can almost stand up and walk by themselves" is how Mrs. Du describes the stiff socks that have been worn for too long.

MOUNTAIN CREEK, a New Jersey ski area about 50 miles from Manhattan, took a bold step last summer: It announced that it was relocating all its terrain-park features to a separate, almost stand-alone peak within the resort, but one mile from the main base area.

Well actually, he almost stood down.

Everything almost stood still for a moment.

That moment will be etched in my memory forever; time almost stood still.

As we now know, as one approaches the speed of light time almost stands still.