Sentence examples for quite ours from inspiring English sources

The monarchy is not quite ours – but certainly not theirs either.

We may again know times in which the greatest human endeavors are private ones — thrilling, mesmerizing even, and not quite ours.

No, her everyday interactions are not quite ours – very few people spend "more than two thousand hours in the air over four years" – but I think women the world over will empathize with Clinton's reminders of never-ending sexism, even at the (second) highest level of power.

Somewhere deep within the smothering confusion of this tragedy, Geoff and I felt our foreignness again; we looked at one another, discussed our sadness, and realized that for all of our love for and attempts to be part of Spain, it was still not quite ours.

But in Catholic theology, the problems and challenges of our less fortunate brothers and sisters are quite literally, ours.

"We had our chances, they took theirs and we didn't quite take ours.

These are his preoccupations, but they don't quite become ours.

No other modern democratic country has a second chamber quite like ours.

Astronomers have been finding planetary systems for seven years, but none quite like ours: the planets orbited too close to their stars or traveled eccentric trajectories.

What about the UK? Their wage data don't quite match ours; the closest I've been able to come is the "regular pay" component of average weekly earnings, which I think is more cyclical than our hourly series.

Next we have the building's wrapping, its skin, which quite like ours have many overlapping layers, frequently, sometimes even inadvertently, renewed and replaced.