Sentence examples for Quite die from inspiring English sources

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Argov fell to the sidewalk, but he didn't quite die.

Palestrina captures the majesty of the eternal city, the beautiful dream that didn't quite die when its empire crumbled.

"They are always dying but never quite die, because there will always be more old people," she added, referring to a letter that Chopin wrote about one concert at which there were no young people in the audience because it was the start of hunting season.

On the way to finding out, we are treated to two supervised visits with Marisa Tomei; a man-on-man shopping-mall makeover-montage; a sweetly funny almost-hookup; and bumpy scenes from Cal and Emily's marriage, which staggers and wheezes but will not quite die.

This does suggest that they did not quite die instantly, but it is likely that it took only a few moments and importantly means that this is not an accumulation of separate individuals (bodies could build up over months or years in a river say) but a single event that trapped them all so they were together when they died.

He surveyed it, felt the ancient structure strain against the force of the storm and hold out- it strained, swayed and yet it endured- "and this is why he has come, to share the pride of this ancient thing that will not quite die, to have it all to himself".

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No word ever quite dies.

But it hasn't quite died out.

Falconry has not quite died out in England and Capt.

But there were signs elsewhere that it had not quite died down.

The romantic streak which made him a near-Marxist at Oxford never quite died.

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