Sentence examples for i nearly failed from inspiring English sources

Last Wednesday I nearly failed.

I was a bit of a delinquent growing up, a very poor student — I nearly failed several grades before dropping out of high school and getting a G.E.D.

I was a bit of a delinquent growing up, a very poor student—I nearly failed several grades before dropping out of high school and getting a G.E.D.

Still, John Turturro approximates my uniqueness in "Monday Night Mayhem," but Jon Voight in "Ali" renders me into a personage so dreary that I nearly failed to recognize me until I saw the ABC logo on Voight's jacket.

"In school, I nearly failed because I couldn't remember English vocabulary," he told BBC News.

My GPA was dangerously low; I nearly failed out of school.

I very nearly failed freshman year of high school.

I must say SANC nearly failed the [nurses] on OSD, there are things in SANC that we must correct, around the registration of certain courses, accreditation of courses and so forth because we have a large chunk of nurses who were left out of the OSD because they are not regarded as speciality.

When my mother told me about the night her lullabies nearly failed us both, I was shocked, but she assured me that other mothers understood.

I'd been kicked out of the Junior Statesman of America for being a less-than-serious provocateur, and nearly failed Human Development.

The experiment nearly failed.