Sentence examples for quite defeated from inspiring English sources

"I'd feel quite defeated.

Of course, Napoleon was never quite defeated during his long retreat.

He is barely able to focus his intelligence, to show himself not quite defeated.

By the end of the second day, we arrived at Pork Pie Hatters in the East Village not quite defeated, but fatigued.

Put your ear close to it, and you hear a long, withdrawing, melancholy sigh, as Leigh's distinctive brand of Englishness, always resigned but never quite defeated, washes past.

We are not exactly in Patrick Swayze territory here, and, as always with Jane Austen, every attempt to pin her down as passionate is met (though never quite defeated) by a casual parry of wit.

Although she did not quite defeat the ERA "single-handedly", as her supporters liked to claim, defeated it was.

It is a stubborn disposition: we can learn to hide it, channel it, finesse it or work around it, but we can never quite defeat it.

For the time being, the danger is less that the government will lose more land to the insurgents, more that the war will settle into a stalemate, one in which the Taliban controls much of the countryside in the Pushtun belt and Mr Karzai's government runs the rest.A military stalemate plus de facto partition is not quite defeat for the West in Afghanistan.

This quite defeats the purpose of monitoring the suspicious communications," she said.

"Marvel's The Avengers" is already making quite a dent at the box office, but the Marvel universe couldn't quite defeat Middle Earth in HuffPost Entertainment's Ultimate Fan Face-Off.