Sentence examples for quite meaning from inspiring English sources

And, without quite meaning to, Bell found himself arguing, too.

Heilmann, without quite meaning to be, was close to where the action was.

(Without quite meaning to, Meg persuades one cheating friend to push her car into a river in hopes of perfecting her alibi).

In 1979, the year Diller graduated, she and Scofidio moved in together, started working side by side, and, without quite meaning to, founded a studio.

Charley seems, even before Jerry's true nature is revealed, to have some issues when it comes to love and friendship, hovering between sullenness and panic, and behaving like a jerk without quite meaning to or realizing what he is doing.

More seriously, and I think without quite meaning to, she falls into the trap of judging Darwin because he was a Victorian gentleman, a member of a family which was both "well bred" and had produced more than its statistical share of what his cousin, Francis Galton, called "hereditary genius".

One factor is that Alaska's vote is quite elastic, meaning that it can shift quite a bit from year to year.

But the N.B.A. has continued to exist quite nicely, meaning the Silnas' haul has been substantial: $255 million and counting.

Studies of twins show that homosexuality, especially among men, is quite heritable, meaning there is a genetic component to it.

Second, the insolvencies caused by the property-market depression of the early 1990s were resolved quite quickly (meaning a matter of years) by American bankruptcy laws (Japan take note).

It will struggle to get up to four or five degrees and during the nights temperatures will be below zero quite widely, meaning frost across most places.