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Example sentences for "really quite"

  • The second step in the process of securing safety is that the powerful explosive, the one that does the work, is made very insensitive, so that it is really quite hard to explode it.

  • The brain reels at the attempt to think of a fiftieth of a second, but it is really quite a long interval as these things go, and during that interval quite a lot happens.

  • At first that phrase seems strange, but it is really quite legitimate.

  • Though so small, this little organism is really quite complicated in its structure, and within its little body there are carried on complicated chemical changes which baffle entirely the most learned chemist to imitate.

  • It is really quite provoking to find oneself known to Fame," said the literary lady, with increasing affectation of manner, and in a drawling, insipid tone.

  • Greenwood, my dear fellow," exclaimed Sir Rupert; "I am really quite delighted to see you.

  • Then he is really quite a stranger to you, Mary?

  • My good landlady is really quite an amusing person," he observed in an aside to Elsie, near to whom he had seated himself.

  • Why, you're really quite out of breath with whisking about so fast.

  • Donald smiled broadly as he replied: "It's really quite wonderful.

  • This is really quite jolly," she added, bustling about, showing Virginia where to find things.

  • Many of the village people are well enough in their way, really quite amusing as individuals; but one cannot alter social distinctions.

  • Even distinguished--that foreign way of wearing your mustache is really quite fetching.

  • You know we're really quite a breezy lot, if you only know us.

  • I am really quite ashamed to admire it so much and so loudly--it's so much as if I were calling attention to my own fine points.

  • I explain to him the impossibility of riding, owing to the nature of the ground and the darkness, and I am really quite surprised at the readiness with which he comprehends and accepts the situation.

  • For Father is really quite right: "Mourning is in your heart, not in your dress.

  • Father is really quite right, and it is not at all nice to abuse one's parents to strangers as he is always doing.

  • When I was sitting on Mother's bed to-day I suddenly realised that Father's bed is really quite close to Mother's.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    caused him; cold beef; considering that; five tons; fourth book; good authority; good physician; great poet; our course; really cannot; really couldn; really doesn; really fine; really good; really have; really know; really like; really only; really quite; really seemed; really very; really want; really was; venous blood; weighed quantity; well and