Example sentences for: quoting

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

  • John Kerry--that Clinton have a come-to-Jesus meeting with the House Judiciary Committee, but goes out of the story only saying that White House aides didn't reject Kerry's suggestion, whereas the LAT videotape story describes the White House reaction as "qualified support," quoting a spokesman as saying the idea is "certainly worth considering."

  • Sure, Dowd still has fun quoting Heston's Mosaic self-description as a passionate defender of the Bill of Rights, "that foundation stone of our republic."

  • The Times has reacted to this assault by highhandedly quoting everything and explaining none of it, leaving its readers baffled as to why the Republican nominee is so upset at the paper.

  • Quoting "sources in Washington," the Independent 's Jerusalem correspondent, Patrick Cockburn, said planners considered this the optimum date for attack, because by then 1) the United States would have three carriers in the Gulf and 2) the United States and Britain would be able to say they had given ample time for diplomatic moves by Russia and France to bear fruit.

  • Or so the story says, quoting five experts in support along the way, before swerving abruptly to a "to be sure" 11th paragraph that says Y2K preparedness "posed an enormous distraction, soaking up time and money that might have been plowed into projects with a more immediate payoff," and that "much of the investment went to inoculate older technology against the computer bug rather than to embrace the newest processes that could revolutionize the way work is done."


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