Sentence examples for had almost invented from inspiring English sources

How would you feel if you had almost invented Facebook, but didn't quite get it off the ground?

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.

But while the country's biggest, most-resourced news organizations have made plenty of errors over the years, they have almost never invented stories.

He has almost single-handedly invented his own genre featuring curled holiday snaps, bad songs and comedy.

And these days, despite having almost single-handedly invented the animated sitcom genre (Hanna-Barbera's Wait Till Your Father Gets Home was doing something similar back in the Nixon-era) the show no longer has the field to itself.

Then, Marcus and Guffey saw, around 1969, "history" had been deliberately rewritten — almost invented.

And on the other hand, you have a new company in an industry it almost invented, with no profits.

Ms. Linney has achieved her success so incrementally, so unobtrusively, that she might almost have invented a new niche in the entertainment industry: the stealth celebrity.

The headline could have been crafted by Armando Iannucci for On the Hour, the 1992 satire that mocked rolling news almost before it had been invented.

A lawyer for Mr. Assange could not immediately be reached for comment, but in a statement later released on the WikiLeaks Twitter feed, Mr. Assange said Mr. Hislop had "distorted, invented or misremembered almost every significant claim and phrase".

Almost as soon as cars had been invented, races of various kinds were organized.