Sentence examples for quite, we from inspiring English sources

Not quite "We the people," but a preamble, no doubt, to something revolutionary.

When they start to look almost real, but not quite, we experience an eerie and unsettling sense of revulsion.

It isn't quite We Need to Talk About Donald, but Lionel Shriver's satirical dystopia, The Mandibles (Harper Collins £16.99), paints a chilling and timely portrait of the death of the American dream.

Well, not quite: we once shared a lift in the Random House building in New York some 15 years ago, and I was too dumbstruck by his sheer height to even introduce myself as he had to bend over at 90 degrees to fit his frame into the elevator.

The story, such as it is, is narrated by one Max Morden (not quite, we are told quite late on, the name he was christened with), a widowed art historian, who is returning to a seaside boarding-house he once knew as a child on the cusp of adolescence.

And by quite we mean a lot different.

We are quite happy we have gone through.

Quite often, we crave something that we are allergic to.

Quite often we discussed history.

"Not quite what we wanted".

Quite rightly, we remained among the living;.