Example sentences for: quoting

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

  • El Mundo of Madrid ran a front-page story on the CIA's involvement in Ocalan's "kidnapping," quoting a Turkish government source as saying that "the North American secret services alerted us to his whereabouts."

  • The people of Belgrade had reconciled themselves to every shortage except that of cigarettes, he reported, quoting a young Serb woman as saying that this could be the first thing to destabilize the Milosevic regime because "the Serbs can't live without tobacco."

  • Quoting "a senior official in the Clinton administration," the Guardian of London claimed Monday in its main front-page story that the Pentagon is pushing for a ground attack on Yugoslavia to overthrow President Slobodan Milosevic.

  • to a billion TV viewers will do that, I guess, especially when you're quoting your own, notably un-nominated screenplay.

  • Yet here is Schickel, quoting Eastwood's insistence that the film has no larger political agenda: "It's just the story of one particular police officer in a frustrating situation on one particular case."


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