Sentence examples for was almost turned from inspiring English sources

"I was almost turned over by this stream of muddy water and trash," he said.

Just last week I was almost turned away from buying stamps at the post office because I was wearing a Yankee cap.

Brian Grazer, the film producer, was almost turned away, and the socialite Jamie Tisch had to be retrieved from the masses at the door by a club owner.

Vicci Ho, a Cannes regular and former festival programmer, wrote on Twitter that she was "almost turned away" for wearing leather flats, despite doing so because she was suffering ankle problems.

Motherwell had another narrow escape just before the hour mark as Hayes and Rooney combined, the striker feeding McGinn whose miscue was almost turned in by Peter Pawlett, only for the ball to dribble wide of the target.

The Mariners came out on the attack in the second half and looked the stronger side but the game was almost turned on its head when Brent Griffiths conceded a penalty for bringing down Guerron in the box.

Sofiane Feghouli's low cross is almost turned in by Islam Slimani at the near post.

I'm almost turned off when someone sends me a link saying this band has 9,000 Instagram followers.

Callum Wilson is shredding the Hammers' back four at will, he gets away again and his low cross is almost turned in by Josh King.

He says it was "a very middle-class version of slavery, where the slave experience is almost turned into an immigrant story so that it fits in with the United States".

"It's almost turned into a rite of passage for all these quarterbacks," Luck says.