Synonym: about, almost, just about, most, near, nearly, nigh, virtually, well-nigh. Similar words: album, call back, fall behind, fall back on. Meaning: adv. (of actions or states) slightly short of or not quite accomplished.
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121 Ads are designed to have an effect while being laughed at, belittled, and all but ignored.
122 Nothing is known of the origins of the dreadnought, the secrets of their construction are all but lost.
123 If all species have been discovered and the lineage of man lies within them, the most probable lineage would include all but the robust Australopithecines and the neandertal.
124 By the end of Nixon's first term, rational discourse on Vietnam had all but stopped.
125 On all but the most favorable soils, Delaware should be grafted on a phylloxera-resistant rootstock to ensure vigorous growth.
126 It is all but impossible to make sense of China's GDP deflator over time.
127 As for the stars themselves, they were in the control of the studio chiefs who could make and break all but stars with really great attraction.
128 In the excitement of battle all but the oldest and steadiest troops are liable to mishandle their weapons.
129 For the semis of the UK Championships, when I was all but dead and buried, that's got to be my best five-frame spell ever.
130 Although government action has unblocked the commercial-paper market, an important source of short-term funding, the cost of tapping it remains very high for all but the healthiest of issuers.
131 He tactfully stayed out of all but the most desultory conversations with the members.
132 As someone said statistics is like a bikini , revealing all but the vitals.
133 Also, avoid using a development desktop as a version management server for all but the smallest projects.
134 All but a few will say amen to his proposal.
135 Though the lake's waters are too salty for all but a few hearty species, including brine shrimp and brine flies, its wetlands support millions of migratory shorebirds and waterfowl.
136 He was always so much his mother's boy[sentencedict.com], and he all but raised his sister.
137 All but ten were represented by a head of state or government.
138 Making hard choices is all but impossible when political gamesmanship is at the fore.
139 The right wrist of the sheriff was all but dislocated.
140 Automatic allocation and garbage collection all but eliminates resource leaks in applications.
141 When we are in buoyant health , death is all but unimaginable.
142 The Quietus reports that earlier this year, Jackson sold all but 5% of his remaining 25% share in Sony/ATV – in an attempt to improve his financial situation.
143 The plant will stand all but the worst winters out of doors.
144 But there is disenchantment with markets in Colombia, even though the country all but escaped recession.
145 Enough methods now exist to solve all but the most intractable cases.
146 Further, all but one of the inventors are from Los Alamos, New Mexico.
147 SD : Well, for sure we are not happy at all but that the the situation.
148 The border with NSW remains closed to thoroughbred and leisure horses in all but exceptional cases.
149 Environmentalists raise the spectre of Central Asia's Aral Sea, all but drained by Soviet irrigation projects.
150 The two-legged, spiky-backed, blood-sucking alien-type chupacabra all but ceased to exist, replaced by the hairless doglike animals we see today.