How to Use quite in a Sentence

quite

adverb

• She's quite right, you know.
• We hadn't quite made up our minds.
• Quite why he left is unclear.
• That is not quite what I said.
• I quite forgot your birthday.
• I am quite capable of doing it myself, thank you.
• They assured me that I was quite mistaken.
• No one realized quite what was happening.
• And there’s still, just to be quite frank with you, this is the beginning of a process.
  — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 8 Feb. 2024
• Now, please don't ask why; no one quite knows the reason.
  — Chris Nashawaty, EW.com, 11 Dec. 2024
• Only this time her best was not quite good enough to win.
  — Steve Galluzzo, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2023
• Chances are, your case of RSV will feel quite similar to a run-of-the-mill cold.
  — Leah Prinzivalli, Allure, 30 Sep. 2024
• Not even a full recognition quite yet of what was to come.
  — Bill Dwyre, Los Angeles Times, 23 June 2023
• The laundry list of things that had to be addressed with my surgery is quite long.
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 30 Mar. 2023
• Keep in Mind The 496-page hardcover book may be quite heavy.
  — L. Daniela Alvarez, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 Feb. 2024
• But the zoo's newest may not seem quite as cute to some people.
  — Amy Schwabe, Journal Sentinel, 27 Jan. 2023
• But the rulings aren’t quite the end of more than four years of legal battles.
  — Ken Ritter, Fortune, 16 Feb. 2023
• Megadeth is a little closer than The Who, but that's still not quite right.
  — Rory Appleton, The Indianapolis Star, 13 Jan. 2023
• The truth is, the marathon was born out of, quite literally, death.
  — Sheon Han February 9, Longreads, 9 Feb. 2023
• But experts aren't quite sure what this looks like just yet.
  — Maggie O'Neill, Health, 8 June 2024
• Some even called them a hippie group, though the members didn’t quite like that.
  — Lindsey Bahr, ajc, 13 Feb. 2023
• And be sure to start with lighter pressure, as a new dry brush will be quite firm and will need time to break in.
  — Hannah Coates, Vogue, 11 Oct. 2024
• Nothing gives off a cool and easy-going vibe quite like a linen dress.
  — Erin Johnson, Peoplemag, 31 July 2023
• First off, as the name suggests, this fan is quite large at 60 inches wide.
  — Adria Greenhauff, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 Jan. 2023
• So there’s a quite a nice balance between those two worlds in some ways.
  — Alex Ritman, Variety, 26 July 2024
• But nothing calls for newness quite like the changing of the seasons.
  — Alyssa Girdwain, Women's Health, 11 Aug. 2023
• But there was another pitch, and the robots weren’t quite sure what to do with it.
  — Journal Sentinel, 13 Apr. 2023
• He felt that the world he had loved had quite gone.
  — Edmund Wilson, New York Times Book Review, 20 July 1986
• Now speed and defense age quite poorly compared to other raw tools.
  — Tony Blengino, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
• Every team in the league is going to aggressively pursue the young flamethrower, so acquiring him may be quite tough.
  — Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 12 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 26 Dec 2024