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Example sentences for "never quite"

  • Sex without the consummating act of coition is never quite sex, in human relationships: just as a eunuch is never quite a man.

  • Suffice to say the equilibrium is never quite perfect.

  • To my father it is as if it had not been; he never quite heard, never quite understood it, and he forgets easily and entirely.

  • And the passages which may claim that name in the eighteenth century, if never quite so great as the two just mentioned, are very numerous.

  • It has the doubtful merit (in a satire) of being consistently moderate; and Sir Limpidus, who is never quite a figure of truth, also misses ever being quite a figure of fun.

  • Sound lingered on, never quite ceased; the stale odours clung in the narrow street below, though a little wind was creeping about to sweeten the air.

  • His idealism was roused; and when that is so, one is never quite at ease.

  • Yet tourists of English blood and American training are seldom or never quite at home there.

  • And Mrs. Whitely's skilful suggestions had on occasions almost brought him to believe in the reality of the mirage,--never quite.

  • As a matter of fact, the crowds did flock; but I never quite knew as I looked down from platforms on seas of faces how much of the flocking was spontaneous.

  • Exactly how the adaptation had been accomplished I never quite understood.

  • The days when I had ridden to hounds in England as a boy in Cheshire stood me in some little stead, for like swimming, tennis, and other pastimes calling for coördination, riding is never quite forgotten.

  • In all my childhood I can only remember one single punishment, among not a few which I received, which I resented--and for years I never quite forgot it.

  • Indeed Lever at different times of his life manifested almost all the gifts which the novelist requires, though unfortunately he never quite managed to exhibit them all together.

  • He was not very successful with the stage, though he never quite gave it up.

  • Not with Karl appearing in all parts of the world, never quite dead, never quite alive--and his son Frederick Augustus lurking with him in the shadows.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "never quite" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    being heard; great fear; never asked; never before; never did; never expected; never fails; never fear; never felt; never forget; never goin; never have; never known; never like; never looked; never marry; never more; never occurred; never quite; never read; never saw; never see; never think; never trust; political society; unclean spirit