Example sentences of "almost to [art] ground " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indoors she wore a long black pinafore-like garment , sleeveless and reaching almost to the ground , which she had made from a cotton material used later during the war for black-out curtains and called , I think , sateen . |
| 2 | The designs show houses shaped like school set squares , with one high wall and a roof swooping almost to the ground . |
| 3 | There was no shrub and palm cover bound by creepers as there had been in the rain forest so that the track was little protected from the squalls that struck up the mountainside , screeching like banshees , as they bowed the slender treetrunks almost to the ground . |
| 4 | Mrs. Whitlock retained the pre-war length of dress , almost to the ground and covered by a voluminous apron made from discarded sugar sacks . |
| 5 | After patiently tracking radio-collared sloths , the scientists observed the animals descending almost to the ground from the forest canopy , where they normally live . |
| 6 | Their hair was entwined with golden cords , and their dresses , richly embroidered with beads , pearls and precious metals , flowed almost to the ground . |
| 7 | The burka was a long face veil which reached almost to the ground . |
| 8 | ‘ And he burned this basilica — the Basilica Aemilia — almost to the ground . |