Sentence examples for could quite make from inspiring English sources

In the steel industry the biggest problem has always been that we've had scrap metal dealers for millennia but no one could quite make auto steel out of that scrap.

The poverty that followed us like a starving stray, because she never could quite make ends meet with three hungry kids.

I haven't become the ideal mother (no one does), but I hope and pray you won't just see me as the mom who never could quite make up the dialogue for those puppet shows and served sometimes less than edible dinners.

She'd seen him looking at her in some way she could never quite make out, which could have been lust and could have been distaste.

We just couldn't quite make enough plays.

She could not quite make clear what her point was.

She teetered on the brink of conversion to Catholicism but could never quite make the jump.

Committed performances couldn't quite make up for choreographic flaws in the rest of the program.

His tattered life became the movie he could not quite make.

I had my idea of paradise but I couldn't quite make it work.

Or maybe they just couldn't quite make up their minds which they liked best.