Example sentences for: quite

How can you use “quite” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • ' he ejaculated, thrown quite off his guard by the beauty of the manoeuvre.”

  • As China’s leading indigenous religion, Daoism differs from Buddhism (transplanted from India) not so much in the architecture of its temples and the art of its statuary (these are often quite similar in style) as in its practices and beliefs.

  • [ 16 ] In some cases these heuristics serve quite well; in other cases, they may lead to common, reproducible errors in judgment.

  • Siegel, in his Siegelesque fashion, can't quite bring himself to give her credit for insight, even though she was practically the only critic to praise the film: "Not a single critic, not even those few who claimed to like Eyes Wide Shut , made any attempt to understand the film on its own artistic terms."

  • Old in this context is more or less synonymous with elderly, which means `quite advanced in age,' while older means `advanced in age (but not yet so advanced as to be called “old”).


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