Sentence examples for rather could not from inspiring English sources
The host, who wanted to say something which his tongue would not let him, or rather could not,—stood staring and stammering for the most absurd two minutes; after which, the proctor muttered something about calling to inquire after his father, and walked off.
I also loved that macaroni and cheese, until I didn't or, rather, couldn't.
The guy didn't matter, the circumstances didn't matter; I didn't (or rather, couldn't) demand anything to be special.
Quesnay's understanding of value-added was rather primitive he could not see, for example, how manufacturing could create wealth.
Riad, pretty and hitherto rather cosseted, could not be more different from his boy cousins, who are rough, violent and slightly terrifying.
He wasn't playing a game or anything; rather, he couldn't control it.
Schiffer, for her part, explained in a phone interview with THUMP that Morda and Beaulieu were not fired from their jobs at the club; rather, they "couldn't perform and walked off".
When I earned a letter jacket, Mom said, "Isn't this a good reason to stop the torture?" I finally got it: She didn't believe I might compromise my fertility on the Astroturf; rather, she couldn't watch me complete my long-distance events because I looked frail by the finish.
Rather, he simply could not hear.
It was not that he failed to settle, rather that he could not make his mark.
