Sentence examples for quite broke from inspiring English sources

Tom never forgot, or quite broke free, from his roots.

He never quite broke into Hollywood, but he tried.

The quintet has been chugging along for more than a decade, releasing batches of catchy pop songs that, though seemingly destined for commercial success, never quite broke through.

Yet in the United States, they never quite broke out of the collegiate rock circuit, even after they were signed to a major label, Elektra.

Watch the turgid movie version of "The Producers," by the way, and you get a sense of why Mr. Lane never quite broke through to film fame, despite a few leading roles along the way, most notably in "The Birdcage," the grisly American remake of the grisly "La Cage aux Folles".

If the documentary was a wrenching drama, the off-camera takeover itself was operatic, with threats of violence and a death-bed transfer of legal rights, leading to courthouse wrangling that pitted wealthy powerful Hollywood fixtures against Mr. Nevius, a prodigy screenwriter turned producer who never quite broke into the big time.

As well as no longer being quite so broke, the Tories are now more than a mere pressure group for the disgruntled: they are quite likely to form the next government.

He did not quite go broke; he sold the team in 1980, reportedly because his other business was struggling, but in 1979 the Rangers had drawn more than 1.5 million fans, the highest total in the franchise's history to that point.

And it's into this freaky secret society that Mary Katharine Isabellee, quite good), a broke, cucumber cool — but conveniently hot — med student, stumbles after she performs an impromptu backroom surgery..

It has been broke for quite some time, and you have turned a blind eye towards it all, hoping that these issues wouldn't resurface or would eventually resolve themselves.

"By this point, I was broke, unwell and quite frankly terrified," he says.