Sentence examples for quite becoming from inspiring English sources

It's patient and respectable without being quite likable, without ever quite becoming your friend.

It was also a place between regions, never quite becoming eastern, northern, southern or western.

Quietly, the company has expanded the financial services it offers customers, without quite becoming a bank.

They are erotic and feminine and extravagant without ever quite becoming vulgar.

The sting, however, gradually lessens without quite becoming a caress; it begins to feel like a way of observing closely.

Quietly, the company has expanded the financial services that it offers customers, without quite becoming a bank itself.

Before February 2000, we were quite simply becoming indistinguishable from the pack.

She added: "We're now looking at a military force that's, quite frankly, becoming afraid to even engage".

"How does it feel?" I would ask, quite possibly becoming the only Indian man who had ever asked that question.

For highly selective adsorbents, the differences between the work-productivity tradeoff curves for the four configurations are quite distinct, becoming less distinct as the ease of separation decreases.

"We're now looking at a military force that's, quite frankly, becoming afraid to even engage," said Alice Friend, the Pentagon's principal director for African affairs.