Sentence examples for had almost crashed from inspiring English sources

As if to fuel the prestage drama, Froome had almost crashed into Contador during a furious downhill chase on Stage 16, and later chided him, saying he should ride more safely.

The most important thing is not to make a mistake, but it is easy to make a mistake here," Loeb cautioned, mindful that he had almost crashed on the first corner while adapting to his Citroën's new suspension.

And he has almost crashed on a tricky descent.

I happened to be on Twitter last night, when the story broke, and the reaction must have almost crashed the site.

The last desperate hopes of finding survivors in the hunt for the missing Malaysia Airlines plane ended on Monday with the announcement that flight MH370 had almost certainly crashed into the southern Indian Ocean with all lives lost.

The Air France plane that disappeared between Brazil and France with 228 people on board today has almost certainly crashed, airline and government officials said.

At the time, the agency had received 50 complaints about problems with the stability control system, with 13 drivers saying that they had almost been involved in crashes, documents from the N.H.T.S.A. showed.

Richard, a well‑known professor of the history of ecology – a field he had almost invented – had a car crash and was grotesquely brain damaged.

As I left, I encountered Wolf and Alain chatting at the entrance, and reminded Ducasse of a meal we had shared many years ago on the patio of Spago with his then girlfriend/translator, now wife, Gwenaelle, when he told me of the small plane crash which had almost killed him and changed the course of his life for the better.

"I almost crashed so I had to slow my pace and finish without crashing.

When I turned 18, I bought a motorcycle, but I was not very street smart and had a couple incidences where I almost crashed.