How to Use almost no in a Sentence

almost no

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Definition of almost nonext
  • No one—or almost no one—dreams of living an adult life from a tent.
    — Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 31 July 2024
  • The fund’s exceedingly cautious management style leaves almost no room for independent stock picks.
    — Vivienne Walt, Fortune, 5 Aug. 2024
  • There is almost no seaplane or speedboat traffic commonly found at other resorts in the Maldives — and there’s no light pollution, so the stars put on a show.
    — Katie Lockhart, Travel + Leisure, 6 Aug. 2024
  • The prison cells are each quite small, with almost no light.
    — Peter Bergen, CNN, 17 Mar. 2023
  • She was found with almost no teeth and weighed just five pounds.
    — Kelli Bender, Peoplemag, 25 Aug. 2023
  • The Chargers had almost no chance to keep it close, much less win.
    — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Feb. 2024
  • The first room is vast and breathable, with almost no clothes, a foyer of sorts.
    — Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 27 July 2023
  • There is almost no aspect of this tale that doesn’t feel slippery to the touch.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2023
  • There was a crowd around him but almost no one ahead in the gated section.
    — Jake Sheridan, Chicago Tribune, 4 Aug. 2023
  • OTAs take place without pads and with almost no focus on the run game.
    — Jesse Newell, Kansas City Star, 31 May 2024
  • Innocence is a brave thing and almost no one in the age of Instagram has the courage for it.
    — Oliver Munday, The Atlantic, 28 Aug. 2023
  • In the end, the panels had almost no damage in areas of the solar farms that got hit with 2-inch hail.
    — Dan Gearino, WIRED, 29 June 2024
  • The Blackhawks have lost five straight with almost no notable names on the roster.
    — Tanner McGrath, Chicago Tribune, 28 Mar. 2023
  • In this rural corner of the state, there were almost no takers.
    — Simon Montlake, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Jan. 2024
  • Die repeatedly out on the road and you can be left with almost no health at all.
    — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024
  • For many decades, Villarejo’s face had been known to almost no one.
    — Nicholas Casey, New York Times, 10 June 2023
  • For many decades, Villarejo’s face had been known to almost no one.
    — Nicholas Casey, New York Times, 10 June 2023
  • By extension, this means that there is almost no slack in the system.
    — Bychristiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 28 Oct. 2023
  • In all the press describing that day in Newport, R.I., and for years afterward, almost no one put a name to the dress.
    — Laura Jacobs, WSJ, 18 Oct. 2023
  • There have been almost no mass shootings in Australia since then.
    — Justin Klawans, The Week, 9 May 2023
  • Until Monday, this month had been all spring but almost no rain.
    — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 30 May 2023
  • Jack has his arm around his father, highlighting the fact that there is almost no height gap between the two of them.
    — Hannah Sacks, Peoplemag, 8 Aug. 2023
  • And almost no one—except for the conservative cabal that bagged the whale—had heard of him.
    — Nina Burleigh, The New Republic, 16 May 2023
  • Less than a month later, almost no one remembers the speech.
    — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 3 July 2023
  • But many physicians have almost no training in oral health.
    — Lola Butcher, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Mar. 2024
  • Twenty years ago, almost no one in the Middle East used captagon.
    — Vanda Felbab-Brown, Foreign Affairs, 11 Apr. 2024
  • Some of his staff had an idea of why Jacobs would be unreachable, but almost no one else in his life could know.
    — Rachel Bernhard, Journal Sentinel, 20 Mar. 2024
  • Some tried and failed to turn it into a drug, most didn’t even get that far, and almost no one saw the gila monster spit coming.
    — Megan Molteni and Elaine Chen, STAT, 30 Sep. 2023
  • The doctors said there was almost no chance insurance would cover the chair.
    — Sophie Carson, Journal Sentinel, 14 Apr. 2023
  • The process continued until there was almost no pulp left inside the peel.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 12 Apr. 2023

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