Sentence examples for nearly split from inspiring English sources

A decade ago, the group nearly split over compensation issues.

They are nearly split between Yankee fans and Met fans.

Mr Ozawa's attacks on Mr Kan helped to bring him down and nearly split the party.

I nearly split my head on the rafters pitching it in".

It was a move that nearly split the ruling LDP but also gave Mr Koizumi a landslide victory.

They nearly split up over Mr. Mosher's drinking; he sought help and says he has been sober for 10 years.

So this show nearly splits attention between them.

It is easy to see why, in the current literary climate, this sentence attracts admiration: it loudly conflates the human body and the book's setting, Las Vegas; it declares the obsolescence of the comma as it pounds out a list of nouns; its zeal for gaudy metaphor nearly splits it at the seams; and it turns up the biblical volume with the sinister "brimstone".

Smith's has a cafe on the ground floor, a brasserie on the second floor, a lounge on the third and a restaurant on the fourth, and even so it's nearly splitting at the seams as young Londoners try to push their way in.

A country that nearly splits apart is not one in good health".

The race was so nearly perfectly split, in fact, that a recount seemed likely.