Sentence examples for nearly told from inspiring English sources

I nearly told him to shush and looked over my shoulder for a park keeper.

I nearly told him that if I had acted on a niggling intuition months earlier — by crumpling up the fax, and never coming forward about Mary's sighting of the man at her window — I wouldn't be facing what William Green had done to us.

"I could nearly tell your age," he said now.

Such a snapshot does not nearly tell the whole story, however.

I nearly tell them I've just found out I've got a brain tumour, but I catch myself.

It's almost a disappointment when anyone speaks in Andrew Dosunmu's evocative debut feature, "Restless City," which could nearly tell its simple story without words.

Of course; but part of the fun in Ashbery is finding how much narrative sense can be pieced together from these remarkable associative feats, in order to appreciate the surplus above and beyond the story they nearly tell.

I'm nearly always told they are; they invariably aren't.

Lines were long, triple, sometimes quadruple checks were conducted, papers were scrutinized and nearly everyone told of being patted down.

Lilesa, whose brother-in-law was arrested at demonstration nearly eight months ago, told reporters: "The Ethiopian government is killing, imprisoning and oppressing its own people.

Of the women who had been physically abused, nearly 50% had told nobody about their experience of violence, while 33% had confided in their parents.