noun
definition
Something or someone that doesn't quite make it.
example
In all the submissions, they found four papers that were clearly worth publishing and another dozen almosts.
adverb
definition
Very close to, not quite.
example
Almost all people went there. - Not all but very close to it.
Examples of almost in a Sentence
She was almost thirteen.
At ten years old, Jonathan was almost as tall as she was.
We've got a meeting at two and it's almost one-thirty now.
This happened to him almost every night.
The white sand was almost as blinding as snow.
For a moment she almost panicked.
He's almost thirty - like me.
I was talking with Morino until almost midnight.
The voice on the phone was almost hysterical.
We're almost out of the sand.
The years passed and almost nothing changed.
You've lost almost all of your self-esteem.
It was almost dry.
The number of medical patents issued in 2010 was more than fifty thousand, an all-time record—and it almost certainly will be broken next year, then the next, and again the next.
She was almost finished packing when the doorbell rang.
In almost all aspects of life, the application of this process will bring improvements.
It seems almost too good to be true, does it not?
It was almost three O'clock in the afternoon and her stomach was screaming for something to eat.
One can almost picture him, sandwich in hand, slack-jawed in surprise.
It's almost as if it is a lifetime goal.
He was back almost immediately, carrying an ace bandage.
The happy Christmas time is almost here!
In fact, at the party he had spent an unnecessary amount of time with the woman he almost married – and hadn't even introduced her.
It's been almost a week.
Almost as bad, how many others had died from the treachery of a single Guardian?
Today we have the Internet and all its associated technologies, vastly more versatile, almost infinite in possibility.
Even today, the scientific method involves experimentation that almost always necessitates some amount of data collection.
I daresay if you have purchased anything on Amazon, you have almost certainly, at some point, purchased an additional item Amazon suggested.
I think it is likely that the answers to almost all our medical problems could be found in the data we may already be collecting.
The battle of Borodino was not fought on a chosen and entrenched position with forces only slightly weaker than those of the enemy, but, as a result of the loss of the Shevardino Redoubt, the Russians fought the battle of Borodino on an open and almost unentrenched position, with forces only half as numerous as the French; that is to say, under conditions in which it was not merely unthinkable to fight for ten hours and secure an indecisive result, but unthinkable to keep an army even from complete disintegration and flight.
His tone was flat, almost uninterested.
They each went to their assigned wagon and lit a match, tossing it inside the wagon and moving away from the circle almost in unison.
It was almost twice the size of hers.
On top of the common-good projects supported with our tax dollars, almost all of us—certainly not just the wealthy—have causes we support.
The other is division of labor, worth discussing in some detail as it is an almost miraculous process.
If we go we are almost sure to be taken prisoners, and God knows...
Almost everyone else had already left, so Katie and Mary volunteered to help.
He must have nodded off almost at once.
I could almost hear the smile in his voice.
She began to cry; something my wife almost never does.
Almost immediately, the room erupted with a gunshot and both my assailant and I dropped to the floor.
Your ride is almost here.
His senses tingled, and he dwelled on how his defensive powers almost seemed to work when nothing else did.
He's been my friend for almost t…ten years.
One day, he'd be able to make love to his mate at will and kill the Ancient that almost killed her.
She felt something squish beneath her shoe and almost vomited.
Jonny's voice held a note she couldn't place but it sounded almost like fear.
It lasted almost ten years.
A big clock on the wall behind him indicated it was almost nine.
The buggy seemed almost new, for it had a shiny top and side curtains.