Sentence examples for quite flying from inspiring English sources

Well, he's not quite flying, but he sure does make it look that way.

"Obviously in the morning, the ball is not quite flying as far, so starting on the 10th,  it'll be a big shot.

But like those angels, the parade doesn't quite fly.

This is something that never quite flies with me, but does have precedent.

Their home also proved a comfortable place to raise their only son, Leon, Jr. — so comfortable, in fact, that the young man never quite flew the nest.

Southwest doesn't quite fly on auto-pilot, but as it prepares for its 40th birthday next year, it is flush with success.

She's super strong, hard to injure (though she's not bulletproof) and can jump really, really high – though not quite fly.

In moments like these Mr. McCartney can't quite fly free of all the piece's gravity, but at least his wings are in motion.

But although the text is shot through with references to Icarus, the story never quite flies because we cannot escape its catastrophic effect on the adult Leo.

Sometimes, as in Jean Rhys's Jane Eyre prequel Wide Sargasso Sea, it works triumphantly; sometimes, as with the official Peter Pan sequel Peter Pan in Scarlet, by Geraldine McCaughrean, it doesn't quite fly.

Damon Dash, head of Roc-A-Fella Records, is furious because Def Jam upstages Roc-A-Fella's artists by usurping props like jackets; the Def Jam jackets, by the way, do the job because they're quite fly.