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Example sentences for "quite the"

  • The result would be quite the same, and the lines could be placed at arbitrary, but equal distances.

  • Quite the contrary is the case with most of the varieties, for which one word ordinarily suffices to express the whole difference.

  • Quite the contrary is the case with regard to the color-varieties of red and blue flowers.

  • The dependency upon external influences which this change exhibited is quite the same as that shown by fluctuating variability at large.

  • Yet the world, and those who tread it, can never more be quite the same to me, and that is not wholesome.

  • I do not think that she will mind," he answered slowly; "quite the reverse, indeed.

  • He answered that he could only think of the song he had heard me singing on the ship, which I considered a great compliment to my voice, quite the nicest I ever had.

  • Acquin had given them to me, but I did not consider that I was spoiling them by shortening them, quite the contrary.

  • This affliction, fortunately, had not impaired her intelligence; quite the contrary, her intelligence was developed to an extraordinary degree.

  • Quite the reverse, I was small and thin and I must have worn a very anxious look.

  • She restrained her tears, fever gave brilliancy to her face, and she meant to be quite the courtesan, poor, noble soul.

  • Crevel, opening wide eyes flashing with envy, quite as much as at the magic words quite the lady.

  • I shall never have learned anything through you, I give you my word of honor; for I do not want you to lose the Baron's confidence, quite the contrary.

  • No, quite the contrary; I see that society takes up a sort of antagonistic attitude to these people, which is utterly baseless, and I fancy there's envy at the bottom of it.

  • Quite the contrary; a child can kill a bear," he said, with a slight bow moving aside for the ladies, who were approaching the table.

  • I don't think so, quite the contrary," Vronsky said, with quiet surprise.

  • It's quite the contrary; he is always in cheerful spirits abroad, but not as he is here.

  • Not that there is any active opposition--quite the reverse.

  • I'm not a miserable mortal now--quite the contrary.

  • The journey from New Zealand here has been upon the whole favourable; no gales--quite the reverse--but light variable winds and calms.

  • That would not be quite the--quite a nice thing to do, would it?

  • Not at all, I am quite the same--quite the same girl you knew in Sicily!

  • At any rate, I should only be in the way, so if it's quite the same to you I'll send regrets.

  • Indeed, quite the contrary; a quickened sense of life, an eagerness to embrace the opportunity opening before him, caused his chest to heave and his shrunken veins to throb.

  • Quite the contrary, that is the pith of my observations.

  • It is quite the contrary: many a time the continent and the pure are led by their impurities to try incontinence.

  • You know well that men do quite the contrary.

  • And then, too, all that is quite the same to me, but I should not like Henry for a husband.

  • No,' he said surprised; 'quite the reverse.

  • I don't think it would be quite the usual or proper course,' she said, suddenly turning and resuming her operation of plashing in the miniature cataract.

  • I hadn't got to the corner before that thriving young lawyer, Sweet, who's quite the dandy, ran after me out of breath.

  • Quite the reverse, madame, quite the reverse," said Ferrand, with an emphasis that redoubled the repressed rage of M.

  • These surprising embellishments were in no way harmful, quite the contrary, to the success of the "Arcadia.

  • Sometimes a woman does not like military service, and if she takes her name off I do not think the public feeling about it is quite the same as with a man.

  • Quite the contrary, I do assure you,--quite the contrary.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "quite the" 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:
    hath found; innocent blood; many forms; more accurate; more rapid; quite ashamed; quite different; quite early; quite large; quite modern; quite naturally; quite overcome; quite recent; quite right; quite similar; quite smooth; quite suddenly; quite thick; quite true; quite unconscious; quite understand; quite useless; quite variable; quite wrong; small angle; then the priest shall