Sentence examples for define almost from inspiring English sources

Eventually, Brox writes, "the illuminated city and the glamour and liveliness of its night came to define almost completely what it meant to be urban and urbane".

As a category, alt-country is used to define almost anything too hip to be traditional country, and it can include performers who sound like anyone from Johnny Cash to Johnny Rotten (though probably backed by a steel guitar).

AMSTERDAM — Paul Gauguin and many of his contemporaries were so much more than just post-Impressionists — a term largely used to define almost every artist in France in the last decade of the 19th century.

Major banks, hoping to revive the mortgage securitization market that crumbled when many securitizations proved to be anything but safe, had asked regulators to define almost any mortgage — except for the most extreme types no longer being written anyway — as a "qualified residential mortgage".

In this section, we first define almost periodic functions on Hausdorff almost periodic time scales.

We have important elements to define almost three BIM uses and their IDM to answer project operational requirements: acoustic regulation, safety requirement and sizing longitudinal drainage system.

They are defined almost entirely by their irritability, their professions and their one-liners.

But after another miscarriage, I've become that woman: defined, almost, by my fertility problems.

Louise is proving to be a rather annoying character, currently defined almost entirely by her relationships with her dad and her husband.

On the one hand, the certainty of approaching ethnic apocalypse; on the other, a set of positive values defined almost exclusively in terms of goods, of how things look and sound, not what they mean.

In fact, she has in some form or another portrayed women who are defined almost entirely by their relationships with men in every single one of her major blockbuster outings so far.