Sentence examples for when not quite from inspiring English sources

But he soon succumbed to pneumonia, when not quite 26 years old.

It is doom, but Mr. Kadare knows that doom is most strongly conveyed when not quite carried out.

A bicycle, even when not quite fully assembled, looks like a bicycle and holds the promise of hours of riding.

Though less than the sum of its parts, the movie is, even when not quite funny, nothing less than virtuosic — and if there's any justice in pop culture, it should coin a new catchphrase: "How you doin'?" — R.B.

Ms. Hillenbrand writes about him so hagiographically that he can come out ahead even when not quite making seventh place in a 5,000-meter 5,000-meterse she chooses to emphasize the extrace speed of his final lap.

Though less than the sum of its parts, the movie is, even when not quite funny, nothing less than virtuosic — and if there's any justice in pop culture, it should coin a new catchphrase, "How you doin'?," Rasputia's exuberant reduction of "How do you like them apples?" — R.B.

When, not yet quite dead, he weakly lifted and dropped his arm over her, my evening was complete.

But it's a very different thing when something's not quite there when you expect it to be.

But the magic happens when things are not quite comfortable, when you are hearing different perspectives and being challenged on how you think.

The real test is when we have that first session when things have not quite gone our way.

Voters can tell when all is not quite right.