Sentence examples for quite pass from inspiring English sources
It doesn't quite pass the smell test".
People now languish but never quite pass away.
The piscos here don't quite pass muster, but we managed to sink a couple.
Most of the hourlong dance cultivated a sly, arch demeanor, affecting a slick cleverness that didn't quite pass for humor or style.
It's a test that "Blink," an intense drama in the Brits Off Broadway Festival at the 59E59 Theaters, doesn't quite pass.
The most interesting "revelation" in the book that Mr Bush took cocaine at Camp David while his father was president does not quite pass the smell test; the witness has already recanted her story.
That deadline has not quite passed, though I have every reason to think the threat remains serious.
But it is worth remembering the 22 years that have not quite passed since those nativities beneath the setting sun.
Peter Middleton, who came into the sixth form via an "intermediate" (that is to say, "not quite passed") school, was regarded with undisguised suspicion.
Occasionally the language slackens into cliché: "we were finally addressing the elephant in the room"; "I could get into a sticky situation"; "I hadn't quite passed the sniff test".
The summer of acid rain Reprints Related items The right to be beautiful: The right to be beautifulMay 22nd 2003Even now, the expression "as ugly as sin" has not quite passed from the language.
