How to Use quitter in a Sentence
quitter
noun- Don't be a quitter. I know you can do it.
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Trump hops on the back of the hog and the two quitters drive off into the sunset.
—Nell Scovell, HWD, 12 Oct. 2017
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The construction on the road stopped due to the builder being a big quitter.
—Love Letters.com, 10 Oct. 2019
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Both men are quitters, and both of them are resigned to fate.
—Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 12 Dec. 2022
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Plus, TJ Lavin, the show’s host — and famous quitter-hater — had come to cheer me on.
—Breanne L. Heldman, PEOPLE.com, 29 Aug. 2019
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Coach Kennedy has been denied the freedom to coach for over five years, but he's never been a quitter.
—Ariane De Vogue, CNN, 19 July 2021
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But its new tool, launched last year, appeals to quitters instead.
—Emmy Lucas, Forbes, 17 July 2023
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This pope doesn't prance around in red Prada shoes like the previous quitter pope.
—Anchorage Daily News, 17 Dec. 2017
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But many of those quitters continued to vape a year later.
—Wired, 25 Sep. 2019
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Sleeping is for quitters, babies and those who count points on the regular.
—Patrick Varone, Harper's BAZAAR, 16 June 2015
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In the past week, some conservative pundits have tried to cast Biles as a quitter, a loser, a selfish snowflake.
—Eren Orbey, The New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2021
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Struggling through legs and lungs that don't want to go today is still better than sitting at home, calling myself a quitter.
—Lori Nickel, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 11 Dec. 2017
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This era is most certainly a quitter’s market, where talent is in high demand and workplaces are rife with burnout.
—Michael Held, Forbes, 18 May 2022
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And the Queen of Country Pop’s cycling, yoga, strength and treadmill workouts will prove her fans ain’t no quitters and will leave them impressed with their results.
—Heran Mamo, Billboard, 6 Mar. 2023
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If players sat out during the uncertain time, they were often labeled as quitters or players who didn’t love the game.
—Thuc Nhi Nguyen, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2023
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But backlash, mostly from older men, has been fierce, calling Biles a quitter for declining to risk her life for a sporting event.
—Anne Saker, The Enquirer, 29 July 2021
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The influx of quitters is doing little to ease a pinch for employers seeking workers.
—Eric Morath, WSJ, 11 Sep. 2018
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Media experts wary of Twitter quitters said a distinction between the platform and how people use it should not be lost.
—David Bauder, The Seattle Times, 29 Jan. 2019
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Some may have ended up with quitter’s remorse, but many have found that quitting did get them ahead financially.
—Chloe Berger, Fortune, 25 Sep. 2022
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Not that many rage quitters, apparently The survey said most respondents didn't care too much about losing a game.
—Gordon Mah Ung, PCWorld, 27 Apr. 2018
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The employer, however, is eventually harmed even more by holding on to a quiet quitter who is a drain on the business.
—WSJ, 4 Oct. 2022
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Social media has been harsher; strangers have accused Biles of being weak, a quitter, and said her decisions in Tokyo have tarnished her legacy.
—Star Tribune, 29 July 2021
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Skipping college to try to build the next Uber or Airbnb might seem a seductive option, but for every Zuckerberg or Jobs there are thousands of college quitters whose big ideas sputter.
—Tom Clynes, Newsweek, 22 Feb. 2017
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Begich, who earlier in the campaign cast Palin as a quitter and someone chasing celebrity, said a Republican in the seat is better than a Democrat.
—Becky Bohrer, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Nov. 2022
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The pandemic has made managers want to be much more attuned to feedback from their teams in hopes of changing burnout culture, Huffington says, which could stop a quiet quitter in their tracks.
—Jane Thier, Fortune, 26 Aug. 2022
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Begich came out hard against Palin ahead of the special election, questioning her seriousness as a candidate and casting her as a quitter.
—Becky Bohrer, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Oct. 2022
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Ramsey accused Palmer of being a quitter, having held the District C seat prior to Ramsey but abruptly declining to run for reelection in 2014.
—Richard Rainey, NOLA.com, 14 Oct. 2017
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Begich came out hard against Palin ahead of the special election, questioning her seriousness as a candidate and casting her as quitter.
—Becky Bohrer, USA TODAY, 28 Oct. 2022
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But when looked at per successful quitter, the cash programs cost less than e-cigarettes or traditional methods.
—Washington Post, 23 May 2018
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My proven strategy for unlocking the secrets of happiness lost its luster when reframed as embracing being a quitter.
—Emily Parnell, Kansas City Star, 7 Feb. 2024
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