Sentence examples for nearly able from inspiring English sources

Deneuve was 24 now, but the affliction of experience left her nearly able to be the mother to the woman from Cherbourg.

It's a rather tall 33-inch standard seat height, which would usually be a challenge for my 32-inch inseam, but thanks to a narrow saddle I was nearly able to put my feet flat on the ground at stoplights.

Three members of the Presidium, Vyacheslav Molotov, Georgi M. Malenkov and Lazar Kaganovich, were nearly able to remove Khrushchev from power in 1957, but Khrushchev, with the help of Georgy Zhukov, the minister of defense, managed to turn the tables and have the three men removed from the Presidium.

Ritchie was nearly able to save the day for Eddie Howe's side, whipping in a cross which fellow substitute Ryan Fraser headed wide, and threatening Lee Grant's goal twice himself.

Virtual reality headsets—once they've sorted out the fact they currently make you feel a bit sick are nearly able to drop players into the thick of it.

Virtual reality headsets – once they've sorted out the fact they currently make you feel a bit sick – are nearly able to drop players into the thick of it.

Along with nearly every able-bodied young American man (even Elvis had to put in his two years), I was fulfilling my obligation to interrupt life and career for military service.

Since the militias of the time included nearly all able-bodied white men, the court said, the amendment served the purpose of assuring that the citizenry would have guns at hand if called up, while also guaranteeing the right to keep arms even if the call never came.

"The book is a delight," enthused Erica Wagner in the Times, "and a reminder that... Shields was nearly always able to find the threads that bind us to each other or allow us to rediscover the meaning of our lives".

The old Tiger was nearly always able to compartmentalize distractions and dominate even with limited preparation before majors.

If the SNR was large (>15), the deconvolution algorithm was nearly always able to separate signal from noise (Fig.  2a).