Sentence examples for was almost sunk from inspiring English sources

Despite a battery of inoculations and precautionary antibiotics, Walliams was almost sunk after succumbing to Thames Tummy two days after pushing off from the Cotswold town of Lechlade, the start of his journey.

Maury Yeston and Peter Stone's musical docked on Broadway before the 1997 film opened, and although it was almost sunk by sneering reviews and technological problems, it held on to its berth for almost two years.

However, The Honorary Consul (aka Beyond the Limit, 1983), Christopher Hampton's adaptation of a Graham Greene novel, was almost sunk by the miscasting of Richard Gere, but kept afloat by the performance of Michael Caine in the title role.

If you slow down too much, it feels as though you're almost sinking.

Meanwhile the whale's mother was being harpooned by a whaler, which was almost instantly sunk by a tsunami.

The latter, however, declined to leave his officers and men at a time when the ship was almost in a sinking condition, and directed Franklin to convoy him to England.

She always hoped he would change, but now that he was almost 17, she had a sinking feeling.

"The previous models that had emerged were very complex; it was almost like a kitchen-sink approach," he said.

As noted above, this version of events was almost taken for granted at the time of the sinking.

The early novels ("Harriet Said," "The Bottle Factory Outing," "Injury Time") were almost "kitchen-sink" in the sense that they reflected a known humdrum world often closely related to the author's own autobiography.

"Leaving Cape Town, we were taking on water and almost sunk, and that was pretty scary.