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Example sentences for "almost all"

  • Though power over others is in every case liable to be used to their injury, yet, in almost all cases, the subject individual is shielded from great outrages by strong safeguards.

  • Or that of the Jews by almost all nations, by the judgment of their persecutors?

  • These catalogues show large numbers of young men and women, almost all of them between twenty and thirty-eight years old; and yet the number of young children is astonishingly small.

  • Almost all of these the novelist may neglect, or if he wishes to describe them, a single example will serve to reveal whatever uniqueness they may hide.

  • In almost all so-called tragedies, true tragedy and pathos are intermingled; for we feel both pity and admiration, and the pity intensifies the admiration.

  • With the child, whose expectations are rigid and few in number because of his lack of discrimination and small experience, almost all pleasures, like almost all events, are of the nature of surprises.

  • Almost all we have met give us an impression of shrewdness and strong sense; some, of extraordinary tact and cleverness--though these last are by no means among the richest men.

  • Almost all have a vein of folly running through them, and cropping out at the surface now and then.

  • But so much of disappointment comes to the lot of almost all, that there is no object in nature at which we all look with so much interest as the invariably lucky man--the man whom all this system of things appears to favour.

  • In the choice of orthography of proper names and numeral words, the forms have, in almost all cases, been written as they were found, with no attempt to reduce them to a systematic English basis.

  • The general harmony between the operations of the mind and heart, and the words which express them in almost all languages, is wonderful; whilst the endless discrepancies between the names of things is very well deserving notice.

  • But by the concession of all the materialists of all the schools, or almost all, we are not of the same kind as beasts--and this also we say from our own consciousness.

  • The same thing has happened in almost all ages; the greater part of the most famous minds in literature adhere to the doctrines of a supersensual philosophy.

  • Neighboring democratic nations not only become alike in some respects, but they eventually grow to resemble each other in almost all.

  • Almost all compound sentences are more or less elliptical; and some examples of ellipsis may be found, under nearly all the different parts of speech.

  • The separation of etymology from syntax, however, though judiciously adopted by almost all grammarians, is in itself a mere matter of convenience.

  • Almost all whom we could press into the service were Liberals, of different orders and degrees.

  • As a matter of curiosity I kept some specimens of the abusive letters, almost all of them anonymous, which I received while these proceedings were going on.

  • These fifty-five flowers produced fifty-two capsules, almost all of which were of full size and contained an abundance of seeds.

  • Generally, you cannot very decidedly say whether you have been right or wrong; but, in almost all cases, you decidedly feel that you have been fleeced.

  • Almost all of the victories, even of the backwoodsmen, were won against inferior numbers of Indians.

  • Almost all of them had been born and brought up on the frontier, amid a succession of Indian wars.

  • This is not a solitary instance; on the contrary it is typical of almost all that is gravely set forth as history by a number of writers on these western border wars, whose books are filled from cover to cover with just such matter.

  • Broth was immediately made, and was served out to the most weakly with great care; almost all of the men got some, but very many gave their shares to the weakly, rallying and joking them to put them in good heart.

  • It consisted of fifty well-armed Shoshones and fifty-four Mexicans from the coast, almost all of them sons of English or American settlers.

  • That siliceous substance may be dissolved, or rendered soluble in water, by means of alkaline salt, and that it may be also volatilised by means of the fluor acid, is almost all that we know upon the subject.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    almost all; almost always; almost any; almost entirely; almost every; almost impossible; business letters; cooked eggs; different modes; get away from the; held till; hypodermic injection; kept warm; land under; little stream; made alive; moment looking; much obleeged; pure knowledge; social hygiene; something foreign; stolen property; trades unions; two hours; what appears; would here