Sentence examples for quite standing from inspiring English sources

The visitor is not quite standing on the shoulders of giants, but at least standing in rooms they frequented.

He slipped up onto the corner of the desk again — not quite sitting, but not quite standing, either.

I can still remember the day I opened up USA Today and read the headline "Oprah, not quite standing on her OWN". I mean really, USA Today?

That analogue erection, which would limply drift six months into ownership, never quite standing proudly after your nth attempt at acing Crystal Lake in 1080° Snowboarding, was introduced to enable better character control within a 3D space, essential for launch title Super Mario 64.

Similarly the audio-biofeedback devices introduced to individuals suffering stroke can be used for assistance in quite standing and walking.

Vibrotactile biofeedback reduced trunk sway during quite standing and locomotor activities in patients with vestibular loss [ 40– 40].

The final attendance was estimated to be 2,800, not quite standing-room only because the game was televised on Fox Sports North, but nevertheless more than half the combined populations of the two towns, who greeted each other like relatives at a family reunion.

But even so, no experience quite rivals standing in a US bookshop and staring up at the shelves.

I'm quite comfortable standing my ground, and some of that comfort and confidence derives from sustained engagement with the audience.

On another occasion, mercifully unfilmed, he apparently disrobed again, before offering an alarmingly literal interpretation of the slacker aesthetic he's frequently painted as being a spokesman for, by quite literally standing around with his thumb up his arse.

And if the experience still does not quite match standing at the foot of the monuments themselves, it is also free of desert heat, souvenir hawkers and tour-bus exhaust.