Sentence examples for we almost miss from inspiring English sources

We almost miss the flight.

She is down and out in a seedy rooming house, having abandoned husband and son, when we realize it, from a subtle gesture we almost miss: Humphrey Bogart, in his B-movie gangster phase, nods at Dvorak and touches his nose to indicate her affliction to the boss, and its possible usefulness.

The Fiver will have to come clean, we almost missed it.

Next morning, breakfast was hit and miss (in fact, we almost missed it completely so cocooned were we in our sun-filled room).

We recount the time we almost missed the plane to Israel because my younger sister lost her stuffed animal in the airport terminal.

We almost missed the bus because of the detours but I felt honoured (with a "u") -- occasionally honking my horn to the cheers of revelers who yelled back with notes of approval.

(Van Herpen herself favors Adidas sneakers, but she also owns towering lace-up boots that are evidently comfortable enough for her to run through an airport in, as I had discovered in Berlin, when we almost missed a flight).

My brother and I were so preoccupied with our new lives in New York that we almost missed the fact that our father had brought his second wife and a two-year-old daughter to London.

"There were times we almost missed the bus because Juan Miguel would spend 10 minutes saying goodbye, doing those little hugs," said his friend Fidel Ramirez, who has worked with him at the park for a decade.

There was a little gem that we almost missed yesterday in Facebook's amended IPO filing.

And to think we almost missed that one.