Sentence examples for nearly started from inspiring English sources

Alice Waters, the California restaurateur, said she nearly started crying when she heard of the closing.

She once nearly started a house fire while attempting to bake a potato.

The Pueblo incident nearly started a war, but Kim Il Sung drew a powerful, and potentially misleading, lesson from it.

Newly declassified docs reveal that the United States and Soviet Union nearly started a nuclear war, in 1983.

In October 1973 a 75-year-old woman who grew up in Milwaukee nearly started a nuclear holocaust.

When he returned, he nearly started two brawls in warm-ups with the Devils and the Maple Leafs.

As soon as she says his name, she nearly starts crying.

Some drunks taunted him about his looks at a baseball game, nearly starting a brawl.

Before it, Koke was sliding into challenges like a nut down the left, nearly starting a minor brouhaha.

Bégaudeau, a brave and candid man, dramatizes his own failures, as when he offhandedly compares some insolent girls to "skanks" and nearly starts a rebellion.

San Francisco's Michael Tucker and Dodgers closer Eric Gagne were ejected in the eighth for nearly starting a brawl after Tucker dived away from a high pitch by Gagne.