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How to use quite in a sentence

40 example sentences · adverb, interjection, noun

Quite means with verbs, especially past participles. Example: “The product of last month's quality standards committee is quite good, even though the process was flawed.”

Examples of quite by meaning

adverbWith verbs, especially past participles.

  • Nobuyoshi Araki has been called a monster, a pornographer and a genius—and the photographer quite agrees.2005 October 4, Adrian Searle, The Guardian

adverbWith prepositional phrases and spatial adverbs.

  • Religion and parochial etiquette are probed to reveal unhealthy, and sometimes shockingly violent, internal desires quite at odds with the surface life of a town in which tolerance is preached.2010 October 30, Joanna Briscoe, The Guardian

adverbWith predicative adjectives.

  • El adrea was quite dead.1915 December 4 – 1916 January 8, Edgar Rice Burroughs, chapter V, in The Son of Tarzan, Chicago, Ill.: A[lexander] C[aldwell] McClurg &...
  • It was almost quite dark in there and she kept her arms stretched out in front of her so as not to bump her face into the back of the wardrobe.1950, C. S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
  • In Lejeuneaceae vegetative branches normally originate from the basiscopic basal portion of a lateral segment half, as in the Radulaceae, and the associated leaves, therefore, are quite unmodified.1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill....

adverbWith attributive adjectives, following an (especially indefinite) article; chiefly as expressing contrast, difference...

  • When I warned him that his words might be offensive to identical twins, he said that identical twins were a quite different case.2003, Richard Dawkins, A Devil's Chaplain
  • Create a new, quite separate, private company – say Murdoch Newspaper Holdings – and give it all, or most of, the papers that News Corp owns.2011 September 18, Peter Preston, The Observer

adverbPreceding nouns introduced by the indefinite article. Chiefly in negative constructions.

  • And with a prolonged sound, not quite a sniff and not quite a snort, he trod on Euphemia's toe, and went out, leaving a sensation and a faint scent of barley−sugar behind him.1920, John Galsworthy, “Timothy Stays the Rot”, in In Chancery (The Forsyte Saga; 2), London: William Heinemann, →OCLC, part II, page 212

adverbWith adverbs of manner.

  • However, the proceedings were quite carefully orchestrated to produce what seemed to be a predetermined outcome.2009, John F. Schmutz, The Battle of the Crater: A complete history
  • Higher education institutions in the UK are, quite rightly, largely autonomous.2011 October 18, Bob Burgess, The Guardian

adverbComing before the indefinite article and an attributive adjective. (Now largely merged with moderative senses, below.).

  • While the government claims to lead the world with its plans to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, the figures tell quite a different story.2001 February 7, Paul Brown, The Guardian

adverbWith plain adjectives, past participles, and adverbs.

  • London Underground is quite unique in how many front line staff it has, as anyone who has travelled on the Paris Metro or New York Subway will testify.2010 November 5, Dave Hill, The Guardian

More sentences with quite

  • The product of last month's quality standards committee is quite good, even though the process was flawed.From the entry product
  • It's quite a leap to claim that those cloud formations are evidence of UFOs.From the entry leap
  • Those paper towels were amazingly absorbent. That was quite a spill.From the entry absorbent
  • My grandmother is a very active woman and is quite young for her age.From the entry young
  • Has your girlfriend written you another letter already? She’s quite a writer!From the entry writer
  • This stick is quite long, but that other one is half as long again.From the entry again
  • It's getting quite stuffy in this room: let's open the windows and air it.From the entry air
  • He's quite an athlete and can do quadruple jumps with ease.From the entry quadruple
  • I was seen quite quickly — I didn't have to wait that long.From the entry that
  • He is quite bad off now that both his parents lost their jobs.From the entry bad
  • Street vernacular can be quite different from what is heard elsewhere.From the entry vernacular
  • I know Bristol quite well as I used to live there.From the entry there
  • I'm still not quite clear on what some of these words mean.From the entry clear
  • Radiohead's on tour! Have you heard their latest album yet? It's quite solid.From the entry solid
  • You need to push quite hard to get this door open.From the entry push
  • He asked quite a rate to take me to the airport.From the entry rate
  • You've developed quite a beer gut since I last met you.From the entry gut
  • We assume that, as her parents were dentists, she knows quite a bit about dentistry.From the entry assume
  • It was quite weird to bump into all my ex-girlfriends on the same day.From the entry weird
  • This was my first bash at macramé, so I'm quite pleased with how it's turned out.From the entry bash
  • Switches only happen once every couple weeks for us, but they're quite sudden when they happen.From the entry switch
  • Keep your belt fastened; this is going to be quite a bumpy ride.From the entry belt
  • She's quite something. I can't believe she would do such a mean thing.From the entry something
  • This product of last month's quality standards committee is quite good, even though the process was flawed.From the entry process
  • That album is quite hard to find, but I guess you could try ordering it online.From the entry guess
  • Although few people scored high marks, everyone did quite well—the lowest decile was over 50%.From the entry decile
  • John is really bucking the odds on that risky business venture. He's doing quite well.From the entry buck
  • I couldn’t agree more with what you say, but my brother still doesn't quite agree.From the entry agree

Meaning of quite

  1. adverb With verbs, especially past participles.
  2. adverb With prepositional phrases and spatial adverbs.
  3. adverb With predicative adjectives.

Full definition of quite

Questions about quite in a sentence

How do you use quite in a sentence?
Quite is used as an adverb, interjection and noun. For example: “The product of last month's quality standards committee is quite good, even though the process was flawed.”
What is a short sentence with quite?
“El adrea was quite dead.”
What does quite mean?
Quite means with verbs, especially past participles.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: quite (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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