Sentence examples for was almost able from inspiring English sources

Though he was unsuccessful in his goal to formulate electrodynamics, Helmholtz was almost able to deduce all electromagnetic effects from the ether's supposed properties.

Before the updated autopilot was released, he said that the car was "almost able to go [between San Francisco and Seattle] without touching the controls at all".

Two Argenbright employees were fired in Chicago this week, accused of stealing knives carried by a passenger who was almost able to take them onto a plane.

She resisted his marriage proposals for eighteen months, because, Bair writes, "she knew a womanizer when she saw one," but he had "such charisma that she was almost able to persuade herself that it didn't matter".

Osterman's command was such that I was almost able to relate to the habit some Comets had of hustling away from the batter's box and high-fiving one another after striking out.

I was almost able to keep up with John who was heading straight down as he always does, ski jacket flapping, hat flying off, his poles going in all directions.

Australia were almost able to raise a bottle to a famous double.

Those who would turn logic on its head were almost able to overturn all of these cherished tenets.

She believes, as Virginia Woolf wrote, that "the time to read poetry is when we are almost able to write it".

Younger people today, though, will rarely have the opportunities to drink the great wines that previous generations were almost able to take for granted.

Kane's first full campaign in the Premier League was such a success that Tottenham fans were almost able to forget about Roberto Soldado and Emmanuel Adebayor.