How To Use Quite In A Sentence

Tre is going to be on suntan lotion duty quite a lot on the cruise. The Sun
I had written quite a lot of orchestral music in my student days.
I think it's certainly quite a lot of the comedy that I've been involved in is quite extreme, if you like, and the extremity is part of what's funny about it.
You submit to subterfuge, you replace your ordinary parents by a little less ordinary, but still quite ordinary folks, Katrien and the commissaris. Just a Corpse at Twilight
The terrestrial planets in our solar system all have very specific spectroscopic fingerprints that tell us quite a bit about their atmospheres.

There is a great deal of feeling and perhaps some bitterness, but do you not all agree with me that it is quite possible, since there is a fashion of armament in Europe, and since there has been no withdrawal on the part of the Admiralty from the stand taken by the First Lord some months ago, to have the entire Canadian people approach this situation in a calm and in an impartial manner? Canada and the Empire
Larger butter pieces (not huge, of course, but quite a bit larger than “wet sand”) result in a flakier biscuit. 2009 March | Baking Bites
She took a lot of tweed and heavy suiting, an ankle-length dress and platform shoes - quite the bonkers stuff.
The dress wasn't low cut, but in truth she didn't have a lot of cleavage to reveal, her figure being quite elfin.
I have quite a bit more to say on this, but I'm gonna let you guys stew for a bit before I continue.
Every large town will have quite a few horologers and jewelers with a vast selection of fancy watches displayed their windows, with huge price tags to go with them.
I ` d like to see it minus bodywork to see if it ` s got smaller wheels than the big old hoops normal for the period, cos i reckon even tho the bodywork is quite wide, full lock would find large dia. wheels causing a few problems. 1930 Art Deco Henderson
Isn't there quite a few "rotund" people in the Obama administration??? Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local
Quite a bit of tablet weave, where you weave a pattern into the fabric, has been found. Times, Sunday Times
It has half a bad novel inside it so I've never quite brought myself to throw it out.
A blonde girl, hmmm, with big boobs, that's not so easy to pinpoint, there have been a quite a few of them on the show.
But there is bad news for dorks like me and, I suspect, quite a few people in this room: journalism has changed forever.
They were close to a little village which the English called Agincourt, and, though that is not quite its right name, it is what we have called the battle ever since. Young Folks' History of England
And we -- it does extent all the way up toward Jacksonville, all the way down into West Palm Beach, all the way over to Fort Myers, and northward, almost kind of budging into the pan -- the Big Bend area, almost into the Panhandle, but not quite just yet. CNN Transcript Sep 5, 2004
Tåkern is quite a large lake and in olden times it must have been larger still. The Wonderful Adventures of Nils
He hadn't got quite enough money, but his aunt agreed to make up the difference.
He was a strapping lad with broad shoulders and quite tall.
There's a spirit in England that is quite different from anyplace else.
Now, you two, that's quite enough. Sit down and be quiet.
In the end, though, Smith was beginning to realise the futility of trying to liberate a proletariat that seemed quite content to remain unliberated.
Coco Stylewood baby lounger, which is quite fitting, because your pet is totally your baby as well. bostonkayla on 2008-09-24 15: 46: 19 view bostonkayla's Apartment Therapy Main
The shelter was quite a long way away, and there wouldn't be time to come back to the steps.
Quite what the taxpayer got for the extra money is not readily apparent.
If the Democrats manage to lose the seat in November, they might consider blaming an election system that is quite literally designed to stimy "majority rule" save in races where there are only two candidates. Balkinization
My boots have taken quite a punishing recently I need a new pair.
I'm quite a kind-hearted person actually. Times, Sunday Times
Everything could have been normalized quite swiftly. Inside Perestroika: The Future of the Soviet Economy
I am never quite clear on whether all this is sartorial or sardonicDads way of announcing that he used to be a punker but is now a middle-school English teacher, or if becoming a teacher has actually turned my dad into this genuine throwback. Excerpt: If I Stay by Gayle Forman
Over the years the area has struggled economically but what is happening there at the moment is quite astonishing. The Sun
His death was quite instantaneous. Times, Sunday Times
I am quite breathless with excitement, or possibly contempt. Times, Sunday Times
We felt quite at ease as the naturist section was a good distance from the main 'textile' beach and as a result there were very few passers by.
Neither Chout, turned down initially by Diaghilev, nor the piano concerto, rejected comprehensively by its muse Paul Wittgenstein the LPO's soloist was Leon Fleisher, quite banished that impression of mechanical note-spinning. LPO/Jurowski; Betrothal in a Monastery; Psappha ensemble; SCO/Ticciati – review
I'm sure there's a load of stuff I'm supposed to be doing today, but quite honestly I can't remember what it was.
And the idea that this book helped Diana in her life, I think, is quite the reverse of the truth.
Similarly, a firm may value worker characteristics that are unobservable to employment agencies but quite observable to family and friends.
Later that night, after he had carried her inside, he lay next to her on the hearthrug, listening to her breathe, not quite believing what had just happened.
wherefores," his "how do you knows" and "how do you proves," that I quite trembled for the victim. Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada
The drive-through restaurant was quite empty.
The Kennedy partisans are quite a tongue-tied bunch, all of them struggling gamely, if inarticulately, to somehow dismiss or disdain or circumlocute what is, apparently, the main focus of the film. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
In today's society, the goal of obtaining physical perfection is quite common.
And so it is quite disappointing that this volume was very poorly edited.
Other attendees were obviously quite unaware of what they had walked into. Times, Sunday Times
Instead of being crushed at once, as perhaps the writer expected, it darted forward, quite briskly and cheerfully, at six or seven miles an hour; requiring no spur or admonitive to haste, except the shrieking of the little Egyptian _gamin_, who ran along by asinus's side. "[ Heads and Tales : or, Anecdotes and Stories of Quadrupeds and Other Beasts, Chiefly Connected with Incidents in the Histories of More or Less Distinguished Men.
Red cabbage's fresh, raw crunch is a great addition to salads (see today's recipe), though I quite understand that some of you may have been put off by its appearance in mediocre coleslaws dressed in gloopy, cheap mayonnaise, its pigment seeping into the dressing to create a rather unappealing mess. Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's red cabbage recipes
“When I mentioned Mr. Snow’s name belowdecks it stirred up quite a fuss,” she said. The Berrybender Narratives
Think about it that way and the end of the world is quite a comforting idea. Times, Sunday Times
Tuesday, 19 February 2008 first signs of spring - centre piece of the month february pick whatever flowers you get at the supermarket to make this little basket filled with flowers. ranunculus are my favourites and available all over the place at the moment, so i chose to put them into this flowery centrepiece. the orchid is quite fancy but you just really need one to pimp this up (and it keeps for ever!). a rose or two, some ivy and green leaves from the forest and you are all set. to get started line a basket with some foil and trim on the edges. soak some floral foam in water and place in the basket, when soaked wet (can be really, really wet - it will have to work as a vase to the flowers), eventually cut and trim the floral on the edges, so that it resembles an arch. trim flowers and green leaves and stick into pot. start doing so on the bottom of foam, working upwards until you have an even flowery centrepiece. make sure foam stays moist - adding some water from time to time. Archive 2008-02-01
She wears a thick flowery hairband, several clashing necklaces and a quite revolting hairy purple cardigan with batwing sleeves.
Nature notes Autumn colours are now becoming more noticeable, though large swathes of the countryside are still quite green. Times, Sunday Times
I am neither strong nor anal about the ‘group system’ which, incidentally, and frankly, I think is quite a mess.
This involved quite elaborate dressing-up, and the fun and laughter of those Boxing Day nights was a treasure indeed.
It is a feeling that Mick Dobson, a 47-year-old binman, cannot quite shake off. North of England fears public sector axe in a return to divided Britain
Unlike other porpoises and dolphins, belugas are quite leisurely.
It's quite happy being the home of bossa nova. Times, Sunday Times
The game is no longer played for the thrill, but for quite different reasons. Times, Sunday Times
White says no one could fail to understand the strategy, but is at pains to point out that making more money does not mean losing more jobs - quite the opposite.
But it did it and I'm quite surprised that the celebration, the bicentenary of this amazing event was not more widely publicised - it did appear in one of the English newspapers.
Modder River, when all day long most of our men were quite unable to discover on which side of the stream the Boer entrenchments were, and in what they called clever trickery, but we called treachery, they are absolutely unsurpassable. With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back
The subject is not a nugget of inner being that extends itself outward to others whom it never quite reaches.
The land is quite out of heart.
Though John and Andrew look exactly alike, they act quite differently.
Lawyers and judges, even in quite large cities, usually know each other quite well and regularly fraternise socially.
Indeed, I think we probably stated it quite favourably to you.
However, introduction of songs which are rather playful in nature is quite new to the Gondi culture.
You may get quite serviceable clothes delivered by the boxload to your front door. Baby clothing: Consider used
A recent television program on Siamese twins demonstrated how a pair of joined, genetically identical humans had different preferences and quite distinct wills and spirits.
They put this view into practice quite straightforwardly, avoided ostentatious clothing and wealth, refused to swear oaths in court, to bear arms or to defend themselves.
But it was not quite the picaresque journey she presented to you. DISPLACED PERSON
Indeed, the heavy prog label indexed to this album is quite inaccurate; this is more jazz-prog fusion with a healthy dose of extra eclectic elements. Latest reviews @ Progarchives.com, the ultimate progressive rock music website
Dahl came to admire him, although he described him as “quite an erk,”** and was shocked to discover that he could barely draw. Storyteller
A quite different way of creating a chimaera is to fuse two early mouse embryos.
The number of kata, many of which have several personal variations, is quite large.
He said: 'It is reassuring but also quite unnerving. The Sun
NY Daily News the Oscar winner is acting like quite the "divo" by constantly trying to AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories
Well, quite frankly, we are at an impasse here.
Some of the shops were closed but that's quite normal for a Thursday afternoon.
They did not quite endorse "dismember and disembowel" as a workable alternative. Beyond Repeal And Replace
One State Representative said it was the largest rally he'd ever seen there and made quite an impact among his colleagues. Is parents' rally in Boston a harbinger of wider protests?
In a perverse way it might be quite fun. Times, Sunday Times
Quite different from its crisp Scottish cousin, the Staffordshire oatcake is more like a dense pancake made from batter containing three types of flour and, of course, oats. Insider's guide to the best British food, and where to find it
Shakespearean tales of love as sacrifice, conquest or unrequited passion are beyond reason.
That complete dependence on each other, which insures habits of confidence and forbearance, is more easily acquired while the first dream of love lasts; and tastes and tempers amalgamate better in the end when there are no witnesses to observe that they do not quite fit at first. The Semi-Attached Couple
When I started doing this, I thought, easy-peasy, but it's actually quite difficult.
From the river cruise the docklands look like docklands everywhere; tourists finally at rest, not quite bored, get brief glimpses into other lives, other spaces.
One can put it quite simply: How can any significant journal be funded in our time?
The Italian was quite stupendous. Times, Sunday Times
Wit and playfulness is one thing, sending your models out in full Highland regalia is quite another. Times, Sunday Times
The homelier glow of an ordinary bulb, or even the homelier light of gas, would be quite sufficient and would not obtrude. A DEATH IN TIME
It is quite impracticable for me to arrange an alternative source of payment at this notice.
The film quite plausibly suggests that her interpretation makes the wrong things of the right ideas.
Having quite high viscosities near a jet might be very realistic and physically correct. Exponential Growth in Physical Systems #2 « Climate Audit
This kind of apsidal (or elsewhere even oval structures) houses ideal for thatched roofs were especially quite common during the Geometric Period (e.g. in the oldest Greek colonies at Old-Smyrna, Miletos, Ephesos; in many sanctuaries or houses on the Greek mainland, such as at Eretria, Perachora, etc). Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Tepe Duzen Report 2
In fact, social status throughout Polynesia had two quite distinct and separable aspects to it.
Concrete rings have been used in the past but can be quite cumbersome and heavy for the home garden.
Though never quite managing to hit commercial paydirt, Glasgow-born singer/songwriter John Martyn has carved out an acclaimed career by purveying an idiosyncratic mix of rock, folk and jazz.
Politicians will try very hard to fulfil the promises that they make and they have made quite different promises. Times, Sunday Times
Of course, it's quite impossible to live without roast rib of beef (of which more on Friday) and braised oxtail.
I do get that hermitic urge. I'm quite anti-social in some ways, even with my mates.
Thus, dialogical openness is quite different from indifferentism; identity and dialogue are correlative.
Photo she sent us quite inaccurate -- she actually looks 12 not 14 & is tiny like a doll. AND GOD CREATED THE AU PAIR
The car is quite noisy at speed.
Entering the village was like passing under an invisible triumphal arch, quite splendid.
I'm not sure the term insufferable boor is quite adequate here, I'm not saying that he's entirely without humor, but it's the sort of humor that is always tempered by a reminder of how much money he has and how he is holding it over his adult children. Outfoxed Diary Entry
I had a quick flip through my cookery books and found a recipe that sounded quite nice.
The one quote that strikes me as quite unsound is the one at the very end, though of course it's always impossible to tell if some relevant context might have been inadvertently cut in the editing.
*Even that's not true since Palin's bristols look to be quite firm. "Perhaps Governor Palin, realizing that and trying to minimize her own humiliation in coming days, should withdraw before she is nominated..."
My father was quite a skinny, emaciated man, my brother a build a stark halfway between my father and I.
Areas on the surface of the Sun called coronal holes, where the magnetic field is quite open and highly energetic charged particles stream out and hit the earth's magnetic field and interact with it.
Now it looks like some of these banks may have been technically insolvent for quite some time before they actually collapsed. Times, Sunday Times
But overall it is quite a good picture, worth a dekko or two.
But my parents weren't quite so chirpy. Times, Sunday Times
I often say gorillas are like that: big and look very fierce and very strong but actually are quite gentle and sensitive. Times, Sunday Times
The car is quite small, especially if you have children.
After many repetitions, the moment comes when the telling of the trauma story no longer arouses quite such intense feeling. Trauma and Recovery
They quite unselfconsciously continued to drape themselves over each other; one would rest his head on the other's shoulder, the other would wrap his arms around his friend.
We have come to realize, through developments in astronomy and cosmology, that we are still quite near the beginning.
I NOTICE that apart from the widespread complaint that the German pilotless planes seem so unnatural (a bomb dropped by a live airman is quite natural, apparently), some journalists are denouncing them as barbarous, inhumane, and an indiscriminate attack on civilians. As I Please
The walk home was less of a gallop and quite honestly it was a relief to get into bed.
We have known a male mierkat so assiduous in feeding young that were quite unrelated to himself, taking to them every morsel of food given him, that we have been compelled to shut him up in a room alone when feeding him, to prevent his starving himself to death: the male mierkat thus exhibiting exactly those psychic qualities which are generally regarded as peculiarly feminine; the females, on the other hand, being far more pugnacious towards each other than are the males. Woman and Labour
It's been well noted at how the Lib Dems would do just about anything to win a vote but choosing a stripogram/kissogram to stand as councillor to rein in the votes is quite something! Stripping Lib Dems
There's nothing quite like the shock of the alarm going off in the morning.
With the current turmoil in the US economy one wonders if people will be quite so free with their money on luxuries this year.
They are also quite preternaturally ugly, bringing a rude abbreviation to the extension of the leg and drawing attention to the unbeautiful formlessness of the shoe, and the cheapness of its material and fabrication.
Yellow variegated leaves are still quite efficient at using the energy of sunlight to produce sugars.
My schedule is quite flexible - I could arrange to meet with you any day next week.
Can't quite imagine yourself with your hair gathered loosely at the crown with tousled waves flowing down your neck… but like the idea?
In any event, the bowling alley restaurant proved quite acceptable.
We had many family quarrels about it, and they began in time to grow up to a dangerous height; for as I was quite estranged form my husband (as he was called) in affection, so I took no heed to my words, but sometimes gave him language that was provoking; and, in short, strove all I could to bring him to a parting with me, which was what above all things in the world I desired most. Moll Flanders
The smaller of its hands occasionally slipped round on the pivot, and thus, though the minutes were told with precision, nobody could be quite certain of the hour they belonged to.
not quite finished
Convince Banudi of his love, and plot with him a way to requite it.
Her wounds appeared fresh; she had burst into tears and could not be consoled for quite some time.
To perform well it has to be tightly targeted to cope with quite a narrow band of frequencies.
It's no revelation that families talk to each other in unique ways, quite often in a non-verbal manner.
They are expecting the new legislation to have quite a rough passage through parliament.
It is quite another to attribute a sense of mechanical consciousness to ancient pre-industrial civilization.
In fact, our lunar friend provides an instructive example of how a vulgar and dogmatic notion of ‘science’ can be quite compatible with the most arcane fantasies.
The pass gets quite narrow towards the east.
Paul watched carefully the vagaries of her excitement, and kept his sharp hawk's-eye upon everything; he had quite made up his mind not to dangle for two years, as he had round Colette de Rosen. The Immortal Or, One Of The "Forty." (L'immortel) - 1877
My, that's quite a sprain you've got there.
I very much doubt Wales would take quite as long as Ireland did in adopting a sensible fiscal policy. The £6bn lie
“Darling, while you were out becoming one with the llamas, your brown-nosing protégé was quite busy undermining your daughter.” I.O.U.
I got quite used to tiny black Tussock birds pecking matter-of-factly at my shoes.
I must have more than 'intimated' -- I must have spoken plainly out the truth, if I do myself the barest justice, and told you long ago that the admiration at your works went _away_, quite another way and afar from the love of you. The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846
It was a movie, and carrell did his own version of max ... i thought it was quite good. Get Smart 2 | /Film
A problem still to be overcome is seasonability of crops, which means that quite often an alternative energy source must be found to keep a plant operating all-year round. Chapter 7
She's protected Michelle's father's identity for all these years, so she's quite capable of protecting Michelle.
Her reply was quoted out of context and seemed to mean something quite different from what she had intended.
Money can't buy you love, but it is admittedly quite important if you are an ailing international record company. Times, Sunday Times
That construction is quite complex, but the meaning is clear and the choice of pronoun is right. Times, Sunday Times
Their wedding turned out to be quite an occasion.
I find that conversing with her is quite difficult.
This no mail lark is really wearing, I hadn't realised quite how much I look forward to arriving home from work and finding out which books have arrived in the post. 48 entries from October 2007
The milling fieldsmen were not quite so sure about the decision.
He evaded the blow quite easily and caught Steve in the mouth with his left fist.
The acute sense of smell is important, since the badger's eyes are quite small, and its eyesight is not particularly good.
She was being quite deliberate with her movements, and I wanted to know why.
And he leaped into the air while he was still quite a few feet away from his opponent. The Sun
Let me be quite candid with you: your work is not good enough.
So Frances Hodgson Rondel must, one way and another, have got quite an earful about Professor Shandy's strange avocation. SOMETHING IN THE WATER
The transformation girlhood to womanhood is quite marvellous.
Lions in zoos are behaviourally quite a different matter, as you'd know: they're a social animal, they'll lie or eat and they'll play with each other and they work very well.
A story is told of John's schooldays which is an amusing and quite characteristic instance of his ethical eccentricities. Old John Brown, the man whose soul is marching on
Actual punishment should only be used as a last resort; a sharp tap with a cardboard strip is quite sufficient.
Ski ‘N’ Roll, as this new sport is called, needs quite cheap equipment - roller skates and poles without blunt tips, that is.
The Christians however seemed to be a quite different species, unlike any other foreign belief system they had yet encountered.
Except that Bainbridge was never quite that neat a writer; elliptical, mysterious and not too hung up on the indispensability of closure, her novels quite frequently seemed to lack an easily decipherable resolution, and be all the more powerful for it. The Girl in the Polka Dot Dress by Beryl Bainbridge – review
But, rather like the public debate in the Assembly chambers, it did not have quite the same intensity.
I am quite an abrasive player who can offer certain necessary things we need to put a spanner in their works and doubts in their minds. The Sun
He cut quite a dash in his uniform.
The quality of legal argument and analysis in American courts, in particular state supreme courts, is often quite poor on issues of private law that the readers of this blog are likely to think arcane or technical. Balkinization
When I mentioned that I couldn't quite see that it was the lack of thrift, the intemperance, and the depravity of a half-starved child of six that made it work twelve hours every night in a Southern cotton mill, these sisters of Judy O'Grady attacked my private life and called me an "agitator" -- as though that, forsooth, settled the argument. Revolution, and Other Essays
A pretty fern that is quite different again is maidenhair fern. Times, Sunday Times
More homegrown products to enjoy include the legendary heroes of Lucha Libre: those uniquely Mexican wrestling creations who shifted their considerable weight from the lucha ring to the silver screen, and the accompanying lobby cards for their unabashedly shlocky movies are quite often classics. The lurid artistry of the Mexican lobby card
It was one of the reasons, Charlie suspected, he was quite a boring conversationalist. TEN STEPS TO HAPPINESS
That construction is quite complex, but the meaning is clear and the choice of pronoun is right. Times, Sunday Times
The economic outlook is particularly depressing and confidence is quite low. The Sun
The style of the film is quite striking, full of excessive grain, rough film stock, and stylized editing techniques.
Given the combination of ineffable beauty and extremely unpleasant sensations in my stomach and head, I would be quite content to die here.
He had almost finished this particular cow and the bucket was full almost to the brim, in fact some of the deep froth (the sign of a good milker) was almost but not quite spilling over.
Jan 24 2008 Whoops, Eyak isn't quite an Athabaskan language but rather a coordinate subbranch of the Athabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit family, according to the Alaska Native Language Center. Archive 2008-01-01
Establishment politicians don't quite seem to grasp the changes that are sweeping through the country.
Quite the reverse, these become the trusted friends that truly understand and can be of real help in time of trouble.
We had quite a useful meeting but regretfully at that stage the damage had been done.
The solution to Quebec's uncertain status is not more concessions, Canada has made quite enough of those, but an enhanced level of Canadian political leadership and governance. Post-Election Prospects in Canada
Teenage antenatal classes exist in quite a few hospitals now, but there are not nearly enough.
I had the same middle parted haircut for eight years, and I was quite pedantic about this being perfect.
They can lose a hopeless case but quite legally claim their huge costs. The Sun
The proletariat is also quite good at convincing each other that communism is a good idea. Animal Farm Character Profiles
All this aside, the boxes are quite obviously the work of obsessives, compiled for completists.
But the more the morselling of Christianity went on, the more dangerous became the raging ocean around it, so that now the Christian Archipelago seems to be quite covered with the stormy waves. The Agony of the Church (1917)
Sorry I most likely do have quite a few grammar mistakes and so on.
He got quite emotional during the speech.
It was quite a good film, as horror films go.

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