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Example sentences for "almost impossible"

  • I watched him as he spoke, a lean, unkempt figure invested with a curious dignity, and I found it almost impossible to believe that this was the same man who had sat in the bar of the Lavender Arms, sipping whisky and water.

  • Yet, even now that I have compelled myself to come here, I find it difficult, almost impossible, to explain those reasons to you.

  • But as the distinctions of rank are obliterated, as men differing in education and in birth meet and mingle in the same places of resort, it is almost impossible to agree upon the rules of good breeding.

  • The country, which had heretofore been tolerably open was now become very scrubby, and we found it almost impossible either to keep a straight course, or to make any progress through it in the dark.

  • It is almost impossible to get it off your skin, as the more water you use, the harder it gets.

  • It is almost impossible to get a coolie, or even a fairly intelligent servant, to go a message at night, unless you give him another man for company.

  • Unless hard hit peafowl will often get away; they run with amazing swiftness, and in the heart of the jungle it is almost impossible to make them rise.

  • In districts where cultivated land is scarce and population scattered, it is almost impossible to enjoy pig-sticking.

  • The signal-man who waves the red flag to stop the train rushing to ruin is a friend.

  • Probably he had not been silent, but the solemn public recitation of the law was felt to be appropriate on occasion of completing the wall.

  • They come noiselessly up to the pier without the least shock in touching it, and it is almost impossible to know when one has left the boat and reached terra firma, so close do they bring the vessel up to the wharf.

  • It is almost impossible to describe the beauty of the scenery here.

  • Next day the intense cold returned, and a severe north-wester made it almost impossible to keep on deck.

  • The fitting is so short that it is almost impossible to get a caulking iron into the throat.

  • These plugs are not removed very often and an iron plug will rust in and be almost impossible to get out.

  • It is almost impossible to recognize wrought-iron from steel pipe without the aid of a chemical or a magnifying glass.

  • All the rooms being on the ground-floor, it is almost impossible entirely to exclude intruders of this description.

  • This treaty having been ratified, it is become binding, and therefore it is almost impossible to consider it as otherwise, and to set aside those parts of it which have been ratified by all the parties.

  • The mouth, he says, is always the most difficult feature, and he can rarely satisfy himself with the delineation of any mouth, but Lord Melbourne's is so flexible and changeable that it is almost impossible to catch it.

  • I hate it because of the monstrous injustice of slavery itself.

  • My religious and moral principles are strongly opposed to duelling, and it would give me pain to be obliged to shed the blood of a fellow-creature in a private combat forbidden by the laws.

  • The serious phases of the debates will now be considered.

  • The partisans who are sent to hang around the enemy's lines of operations may doubtless learn something of his movements; but it is almost impossible to communicate with them and receive the information they possess.

  • It is almost impossible to get the balances brought down, but we never refuse them cash when they have it to get.

  • It is almost impossible to say, except with a very special article, what the knitter would get for it, because this is not like a uniform trade at all.

  • It would be almost impossible to trace all the articles in papers and magazines that were never republished: the volumes of essays appearing year by year probably contained the best among them.

  • My mother told me once that when after three years' study of Queen Elizabeth's character she came to a different conclusion from Belloc, she found it almost impossible to resist his power and hold on to her own view.

  • Under its sanction and by its connivance the institution of slavery flourished and prospered, until it had taken such deep root as to be almost impossible of extirpation.

  • Already it is almost impossible to obtain any legislation, in State or Federal legislatures, to ameliorate the condition of the laboring classes.

  • The suppressed groans of the toiling masses are echoed and reëchoed from every corner of the land, and burst forth in mobocratic fury that the entire police authority finds it almost impossible to stay.

  • With the loss of British credit it would be almost impossible to carry out the plan of occupying ownership without the grossest injustice, and the mischief would not stop there.

  • Irishmen understand this very well; but as Home Rule, on its face value, is only a question of a mode of civil government, it is almost impossible to make the matter clear to British electors.

  • The difficulty extends to the towns, in many of which it would be almost impossible to hire a room for Unionist purposes.

  • In rural districts it is almost impossible to collect people in winter.

  • I suppose it is almost impossible for an untravelled Englishman to realise the ridiculous side of the Church Parade in Hyde Park--as it would appear, say, to a lively girl from Baltimore.

  • It is almost impossible to imagine a governor of the Bank of England making a joke in his official capacity, but wit is perfected in the mouth of similar sucklings in New York.

  • Freeman, that I sometimes find it almost impossible to believe that the whole nation can be so good as the people who have been so good to me.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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