Sentence examples for quite be able from inspiring English sources

It's an expression of enormous power, but it also looks extremely vulnerable, like it shouldn't quite be able to stand up.

Peter Orner is the publishing equivalent of a character actor: many Bay Area readers might recognize his name but not quite be able to place his work.

Hence, perhaps, the vague sense that none of the obvious domestic options – Giles, Mike Newell, Moores – will quite be able to match the Flower-shaped hole at the heart of the England setup.

"You spend the whole book with this character, but if someone said, 'What exactly does this person look like?' you would not quite be able to describe him or her".

You might not quite be able to catch a bird in lime or shoe a horse by the end of it, but you'd certainly have the rudiments of the job.

There is much misery in Terence Davies's new movie, and much of the fear that CS Lewis said was like grief, and also a kind of vertigo and euphoria at looking directly, as if for the first time, at the mystery of existence: the painful, intractable mystery romantic love will never quite be able to solve or explain away.

In the past, such taxes have never quite been able to survive the political tussle.

No one has quite been able to reproduce the classic Motown sound.

But the Leskos have not quite been able to reach a point of stability.

No one has ever quite been able to explain her power or popularity.

"Why isn't it coming up?" I've never quite been able to shake off that question.