Sentence examples for i almost perished from inspiring English sources

Add to this the fact that I haven't been in a kayak since I almost perished attempting an Eskimo roll in the school swimming pool, and you have the basic ingredients for a maritime disaster of the sort not witnessed since 1912.

My first reconnaissance took place in the searing heat of late June 1982, during which my driver and I became lost in a sandstorm and almost perished.

He peaked that mountain but almost perished in the descent.

He almost perishes in the desert and nearly drowns in a turbulent river.

Particularly under Patriarch Kirill, church representatives have condemned the Soviet era as a time when the institution itself almost perished.

I almost got smothered.

I almost started crying".

I almost choked.

I almost did, too.

"I almost hit it".

I almost did.