Sentence examples for almost with relief from inspiring English sources

In public, we acknowledge our helplessness willingly, almost with relief.

They avoided speculating in the housing bubble, and if anything, view the bust almost with relief.

In the hours when I woke, I have to tell you that this struck me almost with relief.

Then, almost with relief, those present reached for glasses of champagne and, smiling for the first time during the ceremony, toasted one another.

It was almost with relief that men looked forward to the problems of a new dynasty and a new century, as well as to a man, not a woman, upon the throne.

"After the first meeting, I almost cried with relief," she said.

When the nurse appeared with a pitcher of water, the woman almost wept with relief.

As information silently flushes between their two handsets, she looks "almost sleepy with relief", describing the exchange as pure.

It was then that she almost collapsed with relief, but soon after was stricken with guilt on realising that a friend, one of the mums she had been waiting with, had a daughter in Mrs Mayor's class.

Dickens, a habitué of the town, has one of his characters in The Pickwick Papers almost expire with relief once she reaches the haven of the Albion Hotel in Broadstairs, having had to endure the day-tripping of Margate en route.

It's a measure of how bad things have become at this season's biggest gross spenders – €52m (£43.8m) for new players – that the somewhat unfortunate defeat at the Badenova-Stadion was almost greeted with relief.