Sentence examples for not quite has from inspiring English sources

He quotes Thomas Mann's own doubts in "Dr Faustus" about the value of the game of "not quite", but like a juggler doomed to keep going, he himself is resolved only on irresolution: "The novel that wonders if not quite has become a danger, must itself be not quite and therefore not quite the condemnation it seems to be .Mr Wood's own professed indifference to the world is perhaps the clue.

(Raoul Fleischmann did not quite have this gift for equanimity).

The winemaker, James Christopher Tracy, does not quite have the knack for reds that he does for whites.

I have wondered about this for years, and still do not quite have an answer.

But sadly, she did not quite have Lady Diana's follow-through.

Gem-like on the eye they may not quite have been.

Photograph: Michael Kappeler/AFP/Getty Images They may not quite have won the World Cup.

Duck does not quite have the ring of, say, Hawk or Tiger or Golden Bear.

"In Elie's case, his moment might not quite have happened yet".

In Relativity however, 'height' does not quite have the same meaning.

It's not quite having somebody face to face to see you actually physically doing it.