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Example sentences for "quite correct"

  • A placid voice uttered in the doorway: "That's quite correct, Captain.

  • This result seems at first sight absurd and incredible, but a little consideration will show that it is quite correct.

  • This is quite correct, and this fine curve of bright stars may be seen at a glance on a clear night in September, when all the stars are high in the sky.

  • There is no difficulty, and the reading is quite correct.

  • This proves that Tyrwhitt's note is quite correct.

  • The form, as Tyrwhitt remarks, is quite correct; see B.

  • In seeing a lady to her carriage or motor, it is quite correct for a gentleman to put his hand under her elbow to assist her; and in helping her out he should alight first and offer her his hand.

  • Usually you do not ask to see her; but if it is between four and six o'clock it is quite correct to do so if you choose.

  • In giving an informal dance it is quite correct, according to New York fashion, for him to write on his visiting card: [HW: Monday Jan.

  • But it is quite correct for a gentleman to go into a stranger's box to speak to a lady who is a friend of his, just as he would go to see her if she were staying in a stranger's house.

  • The enumeration of four prostrations in the text is, I fancy, quite correct.

  • On hearing this, Yule said to him, "Your story is quite correct except in one particular; you understated the amount of the fine.

  • This is quite correct, if we look at the immediate; it is a thought full of meaning, and drives away fear.

  • This point of view is quite correct, and it is mainly directed against a number of conceptions that prevail in our physics.

  • The proverb is quite correct, 'What the eye does not see the heart cannot grieve;' and appetite being the best of sauce, will cause the coarsest food to be digested with delight by a robust stomach.

  • I hereby certify that the above is quite correct, having interrogated the boy in his own language (Russian).

  • It is, indeed, quite correct to say that a deed objectively good does not thereby become one which is subjectively so.

  • It is true that the latter exposition is quite correct as to its substance, but not as to the form in which it is commonly expressed.

  • This complaint, unlike the others, is quite correct, but the obligation is not felt by the tenants to be very oppressive.

  • Then is it quite correct to say, as you say [Page 89] here, that the price paid to the fishermen for their fish is the current price of the country?

  • It is quite correct, to the best of my knowledge.

  • No, but I have no doubt that what they said was quite correct; and perhaps there is a grievance there which ought to be remedied.

  • What you have heard is quite correct, Sir Bridgnorth," replied Mildred.

  • You'll find it quite correct, sir," added Hulse.

  • And though at first one might be inclined to dispute this with regard to particular miracles; the statement is quite correct, provided we make due allowance for our own ignorance.

  • And the narrative appears to be quite correct.

  • But when considered only as lights, as they are in the narrative, it is quite correct to place the moon with the sun; since moonlight is merely reflected sunlight, and must obviously have commenced at the same time.

  • The first refers to the time of man's appearance, which everyone now admits was not till towards the close of the Tertiary or most recent group of strata; so Genesis is quite correct in placing him last of all.

  • It is quite correct to speak of the overwhelming, devilish power of gold, of the sensual desire to roll in gold, of the irresistible ring of coins, etc.

  • In any event there regularly arises in such a case the problem whether the written description is quite correct, and as regularly the answer is a convinced affirmative.

  • Silk shirts are very suitable and quite correct at all times.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "quite correct" 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:
    different course; different senses; feet each; flour and; looking out; other buildings; quite close; quite content; quite correct; quite enough; quite good; quite happy; quite naked; quite naturally; quite otherwise; quite recent; quite right; quite satisfied; quite similar; quite simple; quite smooth; quite unconscious; quite understand; quite unnecessary; quite wrong; will not leave thee