Sentence examples for Quite conquer from inspiring English sources

I didn't quite conquer that one.

Having in middle age forsaken the other vices (alcohol, cigarettes, meat) of his early life, Mda can't quite conquer his need to give random strangers a ride.

Brosnan's Lang is an alpha-ego, substantially accustomed to American mega-celebrity status, smugly nurturing his Blairish sense of entitlement and resentment, yet with a weird blankness and smileyness that resurfaces continually: a Brit tendency to ingratiation that he can never quite conquer.

Don Mattingly came but could not quite conquer.

Although it seems technology could be called the enemy of cursive, it still can't quite conquer the written word.

Ms. Porter said her fear is not quite conquered.

Salmond never quite conquered his signature rhetorical ticks – the knowing smirk, the theatrical incredulity – but at least he delivered the closing line like he meant it.

Its leading man is Victor Moore, then 61, a Broadway star from the turn of the century who never quite conquered the movies; his co-star is Beulah Bondi, a 49-year-old character actress who specialized in forbidding society matrons.

Hackpad: Collaboration online is a space that many companies big and small have tried to tackle, but no one has quite conquered yet.

Exploiting wars between France and Austria to acquire the rich northern part of the country, the Piedmontese king was faced with a startling fait accompli when the revolutionary Giuseppe Garibaldi, initially leading an expedition of only a thousand men, quite unexpectedly conquered the whole of Sicily and southern Italy.

LOS ANGELES — For a team that has been to the summit, the defending Stanley Cup champion Los Angeles Kings have managed to conquer quite an assortment of new challenges this postseason.