Sentence examples for without quite knowing from inspiring English sources
Eventually I learned to expect it, without quite knowing why.
Without quite knowing why, we kept him at arm's length.
The Corps had attacked Antaeus without quite knowing who he was.
The movie bucks Hollywood norms without quite knowing what to put in their place.
You can do better, he said, and without quite knowing it, everyone did.
Without quite knowing it, I had stumbled upon my theme – impurity.
This was the modern privilege of the restaurant experience: to be served and made happy without ever quite knowing how it was happening.
Before long, and without ever quite knowing why, the Los Angeles Tribune the Times' most formidable rival found itself bankrupt and out of business.
He has written that, for him, there are two sorts of books — straightforwardly realistic ones, which he associates with "a sort of disagreeable noise," and those which, without his quite knowing why, "transmit happiness".
As LSU's season dribbles towards NCAA tournament disappointment, the putative No1 pick in this year's NBA draft is in danger of beginning his professional career without anyone quite knowing what to do with him.
But this one cuts particularly deep because over the past few decades, without even quite knowing it, we went from a nation with a few financial choices to one with thousands, and we're making decisions previous generations never faced — in I.R.A.'s, 401 k)'s, 529 plans and elsewhere.
