To nonscientific eyes like mine, they are almost twins of the more popular August-blooming garlic chives (A. tuberosum).
"Hmm," she said, walking around to the front of the barn and over to the house, almost twins in terms of volume.
She was also my best friend and "almost twin".
Since 2003 UB313 is almost a twin of Pluto in size, the two distant objects could eventually share the same fate of terminology.
So Scarano said he was excited when, one day in 2005, "a job walks into my office that's almost a twin of that building".
But if the embryo were instead put into a woman's uterus, it might successfully develop, creating a clone or almost identical twin of the patient who provided the skin cell nucleus.
As for the prose itself, it seems to me that Wodehouse's style is almost a twin of Raymond Chandler: their way with words and metaphors is similarly unique yet always spot on, but while Chandler's is acerbic and acid-tongued, Wodehouse is frothy and high-spirited.
While it's been hard to top John Oliver's Daily Show coverage of the World Cup, Funny or Die's Almost Twins came close with one of their elaborate "high-five" videos for the occasion.
In "Jack Frost" the two men, almost twins, create another animated shape out of the space between their noses.
Hope, to Dickinson, is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul; to Ryan, it is merely "the almost-twin / of making-do, / the isotope / of going on".
Smooth as granite, almost twins, they have been performing together for twenty-five yearacingcing the pulse of their audiences.
