Sentence examples for had almost succeeded from inspiring English sources

Bragg had almost succeeded in crushing the Union army.

"Ugf, ahfg!" choked Briggs, like a drowning man, for he had almost succeeded in stopping his breath under the deluge of pungent spirits.

I had almost succeeded, if he had seen glimpses of what I was he had never until tonight seen me fully.

He was excited to learn that the Taliban had almost succeeded in defeating the Northern Alliance, and he was eager to help them turn all of Afghanistan into a theocracy.

The successors of Alexander, including Ptolemy and Seleucus I (Nicator), defeated Antigonus I (Monophthalmus), another of Alexander's generals, who had almost succeeded in re-creating under his sole rule Alexander's vast empire, at the Battle of Ipsus in Phrygia in 301 bce.

Beneath the glitter, she was a girl with a load of troubles on her back: a suicide attempt that had almost succeeded, a nightmare series of electroshock treatments, and, behind all that, an adored Prussian father who scared her stiff and died when she was eight.

The government is trying to curb those rights and it has almost succeeded.

"We are working to wipe the virus off the face of the earth, and we have almost succeeded".

Paddy was born into the Westies, an Irish-American gang from Manhattan's Hell Kitchen, a neighborhood real estate agents have almost succeeded in renaming "Clinton".

Sandy and the Broken MachIne.

Even before the verdict, the government had almost certainly succeeded in clipping the military's desire to get involved again in politics.