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Example sentences for "quite like"

  • Of course, it would be a great saving of trouble and expense in a way, but it would not be quite like living at home.

  • There's something about Old Bobby and the Owl that I don't quite like.

  • She is quite like an elder sister, and you'll have a fine time.

  • It would not be quite like going to London, and Mr. Mason might return if really needed.

  • Aunt Catharine was wonderfully kind, but she isn't quite like mamma, and father is so good and strong.

  • The drive home along the Embankment was nice--quantities of people out, quite like a Sunday in France.

  • It was a beautiful day, and a very pretty sight, quite like a Dutch picture.

  • That is quite like him, to ask how the man felt at his work!

  • Yes," Elizabeth assented, "quite like a fairy-tale.

  • How ugly I am growing," she thought, turning away with a shudder; "quite like Amanda!

  • Well, it wasn't quite like that," said Kalle.

  • She didn't quite like it, but now she's quite satisfied.

  • He was got up quite like an American, with a portmanteau and a silk neckerchief, and the inside pockets of his open coat were stuffed full of papers.

  • One of the horses he got there has gone lame, and it would be quite like him to stop and look up another in the place of it on the same farm.

  • It would be quite like Matt, wouldn't it, to have him brought home in chains, long enough to give away the bride?

  • Do you know, I think grannie wants auntie to marry him, and auntie doesn't quite like it?

  • I don't QUITE like him--not so well as you by a whole half, Mr Walton.

  • The people in the village don't quite like him, though, I find.

  • In my own misery I was aware of her voice saying politely, "I have no idea what the tune is, but you whistle beautifully--quite like a gramophone.

  • Something you said in your last letter, some allusion to religion, I didn't quite like, and at any other time I would have written you a sermon on the subject.

  • Quite like me, only I'm going to an unmarried brother.

  • Pfeiffer said a good thing the other day, quite like him to say it, too.

  • Quite like him to do it if he thought the thing had hung long enough, and that Italy was too damn predatory.

  • I thought your cablegram was a model of condensation, quite like that of Caesar, "Veni, vidi, vici.

  • I don't think I should put it quite like that," said Mollie hesitatingly.

  • But somehow I didn't think it could last--quite like that.

  • There's something I don't understand, and I don't quite like it.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "quite like" 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:
    after looking; grew older; high tension; proceed further; quite another; quite clear; quite cold; quite dead; quite fresh; quite good; quite happy; quite like; quite naturally; quite obvious; quite overcome; quite possible; quite prepared; quite small; quite soft; quite suddenly; quite the; quite thick; quite willing; said the elder brother; seating himself; used adjectively