Sentence examples for quite upon from inspiring English sources

The postseason is not quite upon us, but it might as well be.

Earlier this week, the Obama administration indicated to the National Journal that while the sunset date isn't quite upon the Federal government, it would start to "wind down the bulk-telephone-metadata program in anticipation of a possible sunset in order to ensure that it does not engage in any unauthorized collection or use of the metadata," according to a memo.

Still, the age of virtual reality is not quite upon us.

Records described her as "quite depressed" upon her discharge but no longer suicidal.

She is quite dependent upon me, especially financially, which has caused plenty of resentment.

A once familiar element of life has simply disappeared, quite unremarked upon.

The camera focuses quite steadily upon her efforts to draw down the skirt.

In fiction, James Bond drew quite judiciously upon his licence to kill, bumping off just 38 adversaries in a dozen Ian Fleming novels.

His editor, Maxwell Perkins, told him that "the novel is a wonder," but that the main character was "somewhat vague," that "the reader's eye can never quite focus upon him".

You can hear him relishing the challenge of bringing places to life for the listener with music and the kind of anecdotes and experiences most travellers never quite stumble upon.

Partly due to the immense success that the album itself enjoyed on its release, but also due to the fact that Maiden have never quite improved upon its grandiloquent blend of metallic bluster and prog-rock ingenuity, this 10-minute behemoth remains one of the most cherished epics in the band's vast canon.