Example sentences for: quite

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

  • For me the most interesting thing about Charles Lewis' table is that although I assume it works for his London English, it does not quite work for my standard American English.

  • Those who do not have to give a second thought to the idiomaticity of English word order can count themselves doubly blessed: the system does not yield readily to rules, as native speakers know from listening to the speech of foreigners who have not quite mastered it, regardless of how long they have been using the language.

  • It was Dowd, after all, who wrote the story of Frank Sinatra's alleged affair with Nancy Reagan, as chronicled in Kitty Kelley's biography of Nancy, on the front page of the New York Times . (Dowd protests that the piece was an assignment and, quite rightly, that editors, not reporters, decide what goes on Page One.)

  • So it's quite exciting," MacIver said.

  • And thus, in that version, quite invisibly, the network is now able to identify all sorts of facts about you--whether you are an American, whether you are over 18, where you live, etc.


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