Sentence examples for nearly starts from inspiring English sources

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

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.

In the movie, Matthew Broderick plays a hacker who breaks into the Defense Department's network and, by accident, nearly starts a nuclear war.

Thinking it's just RISK Online, and not furreals, Bueller nearly starts World War III.

In "The Adventure of the Second Stain," Holmes covers up a crime that nearly starts a Europe-wide war because revealing it would ruin a marriage.

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

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.

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