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Example sentences for "being quite"

  • Being quite hardy, and interesting as well as ornamental, should insure this Chinese shrub a place in every good collection.

  • For avenue planting or as a standard specimen this is a valuable tree, being quite hardy, and of free and quick growth.

  • Being quite hardy, and a plant of great interest and beauty, this little known Cornus is sure to be widely planted when better known.

  • Being quite hardy, and very ornamental, this species is worthy the attention of planters.

  • My pockets won't hold no more, master," he said, being quite ignorant of what was passing beneath him.

  • I had great difficulty in preventing my horse from slipping and falling down with me, and, being quite alone, without even a servant, I wondered what I should do if he did.

  • Being quite as cunning as Ali himself, Kursheed profited by the truce to carry on intrigues against him.

  • Twins and triplets, being quite common, will not be considered here, although there are 2 cases of interest of the latter that deserve citation.

  • In agoraphobia the patient dreads to go across a street or into a field, is seized with an intense feeling of fright, and has to run to a wall or fall down, being quite unable to proceed.

  • Instances of phimosis, being quite common, will be passed without special mention.

  • Numerical anomalies of the vertebrae are quite common, generally in the lumbar and dorsal regions, being quite rare in the cervical, although there have been instances of six or eight cervical vertebrae.

  • Being quite comfortable is a very good thing; but it does not make people good.

  • They were both so glad to see me at all hours, and used to brighten up so when they heard me opening the door and coming in (being quite at home, I never knocked), that I had no fear of becoming troublesome just yet.

  • Being quite alone, I cried a little again, though on the whole I don't think I behaved so very, very ill.

  • Lady Harriet now feebly closed her eyes, being quite exhausted, and was beginning to feel the pleasant, confused sensation that people have before going to sleep, when some noise made her suddenly start quite awake.

  • Indeed, whether he had or not, he'd have risked it, being quite as good at carrying things off with a high hand as Mr. Sponge himself.

  • Several of the auxiliaries are occasionally used as mere expletives, being quite unnecessary to the sense: as, 1.

  • Nevertheless, as we have observed before, such fancy products should not be altogether ignored, it being quite as well to have some knowledge of our resources, even though those resources be not at present available.

  • Being quite permanent, a good drier, and working most kindly, it is a pigment which cannot be too strongly recommended to the landscape painter's notice.

  • For fresco it is admirably adapted, being quite uninjured by lime.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "being quite" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    being admitted; being alone; being answered; being attached; being come; being drunk; being found; being generally; being heard; being here; being justified; being loved; being much; being near; being now; being observed; being read; being taught; being thus; being told; being treated; being unwilling; being well; being wounded; gazed down; large square