Sentence examples for he almost failed from inspiring English sources
He almost failed to land the part, he said, and told his agent to tell the director he would "crawl through glass" to get it.
However, he almost failed to take to the field; O'Reilly and several players had threatened to withdraw after vice-captain Stan McCabe's wife was forbidden from sitting in the Members' Stand in the First Test.
On Uefa's numerical record of events he almost fails to register, a ghost player draped in his own invisibility cloak of continual peripheral motion.
Trembling Bells have changed direction once again – but now sound so frantic that they almost fail to do themselves justice.
So fixated are they on their reading, they almost fail to notice one another.
While the boat sways, Wiffin tells me how fishing here had almost failed when he was a young man.
Mary almost failed to recognize him when he arrived, he was so dirty and tired.
Ferguson almost failed at the start.
George Washington almost failed the first; Bill Clinton finessed the second.
It almost failed when a Canadian company threatened to corner its local energy supply: cow manure.
