Sentence examples for it doesn't measure up from inspiring English sources

But on pavement -- as opposed to trails -- it doesn't measure up to the car-based Ford Escape.

It's a searching, risk-taking kind of film, and even if it doesn't measure up by standard definitions of entertainment, it achieves an undeniable truthfulness.

"It's a great design on the outside, but it doesn't measure up to Hong Kong or Singapore airport and should be more customer-serviced," Ms. Temander said.

(Anita Gates) 'The Smurfs 2' (PG, 1 45) The sequel to the blue creatures' 2011 feature again mixes animation and live actors, but it doesn't measure up to the original.

(Rapold) 'The Smurfs 2' (PG, 1 45) The sequel to the blue creatures' 2011 feature again mixes animation and live actors, but it doesn't measure up to the original.

(Dargis) 'The Smurfs 2' (PG, 1 45) The sequel to the blue creatures' 2011 feature again mixes animation and live actors, but it doesn't measure up to the original.

Whatever this is, it does not measure up to a slow-made demi-glace.

It does not measure up to the squad that will compete at the Presidents Cup next week in Virginia.

There is only one upscale Portuguese restaurant I know of -- it is in TriBeCa -- but it does not measure up to the mom-and-pop places that dot the cities of New England's south coast.

"As well intentioned as it may have been, the fact is it does not measure up". Girl Effect said the UK had broken "new ground" by investing in Yegna but that "new ideas are often resisted and sometimes wilfully misrepresented".

So much so that as a result of watching so much porn on the web, one of the boys in the movie is unable to achieve orgasm through physical sex because it does not measure up to the pornographic images one finds on the Internet.