Sentence examples for Quite killing from inspiring English sources

Or not quite killing me at all?

But Thompson is always fascinating to watch, the frank intelligence of her performances somehow acknowledging the absurdity of the whole acting exercise without ever quite killing off suspension of disbelief.

A month in psychiatric care follows, and then Axler retires to his house in a wood in Connecticut, where he spends his days shambling around the big, empty rooms, not quite killing himself, but not quite sure what else to do.

"It would almost, if not quite, kill me," he said.

Seems like you can never quite kill 'em dead.

Murray can't quite kill it off yet.

Mr Chrétien had seemingly buried, if not quite killed, the threat of secession by French-speaking Quebec.

The failure of The Last Movie did not quite kill off Hopper's career as a film-maker.

But Rath doesn't quite kill one of them, and Mahoney urges him to finish the job: Tom had knelt beside the sentry.

One rider told me it was like a cycling version of speed-dating, though nothing quite kills the libido like riding over 100 miles a day.

(In many cases, the cows are not quite killed by the bolts, and so remain conscious as they are skinned and dismembered).