How to Use quote in a Sentence

quote

1 of 2 verb
  • He quotes the Bible frequently.
  • The reporter quoted the police chief as saying that an investigation would be launched soon.
  • He began his speech by quoting Shakespeare.
  • The book quotes some of the mean things critics wrote about Rush.
    Rob Tannenbaum, Los Angeles Times, 13 Nov. 2023
  • Plus, who wouldn't want to quote Oprah while giving out the best gifts of the year?
    Braelyn Wood, Health.com, 1 Nov. 2021
  • But, to quote Monty Python, the Reds aren’t quite dead yet.
    John Fay, Cincinnati.com, 23 July 2019
  • The indictment quotes from some of the same emails the AP had obtained.
    Julie Evensen, OregonLive.com, 30 Oct. 2017
  • The rates quoted here are current as of the dateline at the top of the story.
    Martha C. White, wsj.com, 29 Oct. 2023
  • The post does not quote or cite evidence from the bill to support the claim.
    Adrienne Dunn, USA TODAY, 12 Mar. 2021
  • Quotes about coffee and quotes about wine, those kind of drive me crazy.
    Rebecca Jennings, Vox, 15 Nov. 2018
  • Tom can quote Rilke and dance the rumba, whip up brunch and a rose-petal bath, but so what?
    Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 24 Sep. 2021
  • Which Ava one-liner do people quote back to you the most?
    Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 28 Sep. 2022
  • And my 9-year-old niece in London can quote every line from the show.
    Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2021
  • These aren't just your run-of-the-mill Shakespeare quotes, either.
    Ars Staff, Ars Technica, 23 Nov. 2017
  • Then, the attorney will quote them a fee to guide them through the Chapter 7 case.
    David Lyons, sun-sentinel.com, 18 July 2021
  • Fill your mind with scripture and quote it to yourself.
    Robyn Merrett, PEOPLE.com, 14 Sep. 2019
  • To pick&choose certain lines & quote them out of context, is not right.
    Lauren Rearick, Teen Vogue, 10 Apr. 2018
  • How often do people quote it to you/sing it at you now?
    Ruth Kinane, EW.com, 24 Jan. 2022
  • Mueller said in a passage from the report quoted by Barr.
    Calvin Woodward, The Seattle Times, 25 Mar. 2019
  • The story does not say that and quotes Cigna saying the denials were for payments of care.
    Patrick Rucker, ProPublica, 16 May 2023
  • To quote an anonymous sage, the only constant is change.
    Rex Ahlstrom, Forbes, 8 Aug. 2022
  • Thousands of us like the books cited on the loneliness quotes page on Goodreads.
    Sarah Fay, Longreads, 17 Mar. 2020
  • As often as that has been quoted, it still must be said.
    Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 13 Jan. 2024
  • Users will still be able to quote tweet content labeled as such.
    Haley Victory Smith, Washington Examiner, 11 Jan. 2021
  • Charlie Munger loves to quote his hero, Benjamin Franklin, on the subject.
    Matt Schifrin, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
  • This kind loves to buy on stock declines and to quote wise-sounding aphorisms.
    The Economist, 20 June 2020
  • My role is to quote air devices to contractors for bids.
    Baltimore Sun, 18 May 2022
  • The customer also asked Ebac to quote a price for a mainstream model.
    Franz Wild, Bloomberg.com, 26 June 2017
  • Only one was quoted as being willing to root for Rupp in the race.
    Ken Goe, OregonLive.com, 18 May 2018
  • And so a lot of our time spent off the baseball field and outside of school would be watching films, quoting films.
    Okla Jones, Essence, 9 Oct. 2023
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quote

2 of 2 noun
  • I checked the stock quotes online.
  • She included quotes from the poem in her essay.
  • Each chapter of the book began with an inspirational quote.
  • Titles of newspaper articles should be placed in quotes.
  • The article included quotes from the mayor and several councilors.
  • The price quotes exceeded our expectations.
  • But in the 1980s, the quote took on new meaning for her.
    Dayna Tortorici, The New York Review of Books, 22 Sep. 2020
  • This is the second quote from a source to come out about the split.
    Alyssa Bailey, ELLE, 11 Apr. 2023
  • And, of course, there’s a Wilde quote for the beauty of art too.
    Steff Yotka, Vogue, 30 Nov. 2020
  • Look at the outfit and a quote from the episode, below.
    Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 21 Jan. 2021
  • The star shared a screenshot of a quote from Quinn, and shared her thoughts on it.
    Hannah Chubb, PEOPLE.com, 19 Aug. 2020
  • How many and what grade of items are included in the quote?
    Nafeesah Allen, Better Homes & Gardens, 23 Apr. 2021
  • That’s a quote that made the rounds in headlines of all kinds of media sites.
    Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 25 Apr. 2021
  • He’s not a guy who’s going to be screaming for the quote.
    Gilbert Garcia, ExpressNews.com, 11 Sep. 2020
  • His first quote in the book is: A person has to have a purpose to live.
    NBC News, 8 Oct. 2020
  • These quotes show the very best banter from Blanche, Dorothy, Rose, and Sophia.
    Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 19 June 2023
  • And eight of his most radical quotes give proof in the video above.
    Danielle Kwateng-Clark, Essence.com, 15 Jan. 2018
  • Here’s a quote and a 10-point quiz question—who said this?
    IEEE Spectrum, 29 Mar. 2023
  • The quote is about pooing on things and being pooed on.
    SI.com, 4 Nov. 2019
  • Or how about a perfect quote to go with your spring break pic with the squad?
    Kori Williams, Seventeen, 10 Sep. 2020
  • Here is a good bio/obit on him with quotes from colleagues.
    Jim Varsallone, miamiherald, 16 Dec. 2017
  • Inspiring back-to-school quotes can get you in the right headspace to crush it this year.
    Kori Williams, Seventeen, 18 May 2023
  • There is an old quote that idle hands lead to mischief.
    Jay L. Zagorsky, The Conversation, 30 June 2020
  • That last quote isn’t from science fiction, by the way.
    WIRED, 26 Aug. 2022
  • The English Premier League’s best meme is a fake quote.
    Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 11 Aug. 2023
  • This piece has been updated with the full quote from Banks.
    Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling, The New Republic, 23 Oct. 2023
  • Much of the narrative brings to mind the quote attributed to Deep Throat (a.k.a.
    Brian Lowry, CNN, 1 May 2023
  • The stunningly candid quote soon echoed around the world.
    Stephanie Petit, Peoplemag, 17 Dec. 2022
  • Kasky’s habit of calling out his trolls via quote-tweet makes this very clear.
    Madison Malone Kircher, Select All, 22 Feb. 2018
  • The library is open, so put on your reading glasses and read on for the full quotes.
    Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 28 Jan. 2020

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