Sentence examples for nearly starting from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

Part nine, Uuno In The Army, is still Finland's most-watched movie domestically, apparently and sees Uuno drafted into national service, promoted to major on account of his father-in-law being defence minister, then nearly starting a war with Sweden.

So the next time you get kicked out of that frat party for nearly starting a fight, remember to narc the party out for underage drinking with Crimestoppers.

They were Trent Baur with his tale of the blind leading the blind, Martin D. Cunningham doubly lost in the rain in Miami and Robert La Gesse nearly starting World War III in China.

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

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

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

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

BRANTLEY + 'GOLDA'S BALCONY' In October 1973 a 75-year-old woman who grew up in Milwaukee nearly started a nuclear holocaust.