Sentence examples for it not quite from inspiring English sources

The company confirmed to the newspaper that they do indeed add MSG to its Original Recipe chicken ― perhaps making it not quite the original recipe after all.

And it's made it not quite as fun as it used to be".

If someone does a perfect copy, what makes it not quite as good as the original?

We lighten it up and use a lot of olive oil to make it not quite so viscous".

Over the years, the two have become "frenemies," as Time magazine put it; not quite friends, not quite enemies.

I think Gore Vidal said this first, and he said it, not quite with mockery, but with lively scepticism.

Except it's not quite, is it?

Switching to natural gas will not solve the problem of climate change, regardless of how it's extracted, because gas is a fossil fuel that produces GHGs when you burn it -- not quite as much as coal or oil, but still quite a bit.

It was not quite dark.

It is not quite dead.

It was not quite evening.