Sentence examples for quite were from inspiring English sources

We are creating a kind of instant nostalgia for moments that never quite were.

And which deserve to be filed away alongside Burt Reynolds, Dick Van Dyke and Christopher Lambert in the file of bargain bin Bonds that never quite were?

After the collapse of Europe's exchange-rate mechanism in the early 1990s and then, even more dramatic, the East Asian debacle of 1997-98, many economists concluded that exchange rates which were sort of fixed, but not quite, were a big mistake.

Listen: Five would-be pop hits that never quite were in 2013.

TV Line ranked the fact that Clark Kent "barely suits up" in the finale as one of "TV's 20 Biggest Disappointments of 2011", writing that "we never quite were treated to seeing the series star clad in the full costume, in flying mode", although they wrote that it was "a super-nitpick".

Except it's not quite, is it?

Most were quite sincere.

We were quite good!

Most were quite full.

You were quite fetching.

They were quite messy".