Sentence examples for almost stood from inspiring English sources

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.

But in the 92nd minute Lukic threw the ball to Dixon to set in train a series of events during which time almost stood still.

"When I heard what he said on 'Hannity' the other night," he said, referring to an appearance Moore made on Sean Hannity's radio show last Friday, "I almost stood straight up.

Any fool who's heard of Ronnie Biggs knew they were going to get away with it – for now at least – but by the time the gang's army trucks were on their way back to the farm, I was almost stood up.

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

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.

A Neapolitan friend likes the soffritto reinforced with guanciale, the final panful enriched with provola cheese for a consistency so firm that the spoon almost stands to attention.