quite something

noun

: a major event

It was quite something for a small-town boy to be interviewed for the national news.

Examples of quite something in a Sentence

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Those early days were quite something, and to know that moment meant something to you all these years on truly humbles me. —Emma Specter, Vogue, 18 Dec. 2025

Now, it's got a sub-brand that's focused on more niche innovations for people who want more differentiated devices – and its first flagship product is quite something. —New Atlas, 15 Dec. 2025

Yet as the club from England’s Second City find themselves in this season’s Premier League title race — despite the continued downplaying of it from within — the transformation at Villa Park is quite something. —Gregg Evans, New York Times, 10 Dec. 2025

The journey Grace goes on from considering Hal Wyler (Rufus Sewell) one big walking liability to offering him the job as her second-in-command is quite something. —Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 16 Oct. 2025

To be in the presence of this iconoclast was quite something. —Ellie Goulding, Rolling Stone, 2 Oct. 2025

That would be quite something, but most independent economists expect more headwinds from tariffs than tailwinds from tax cuts and deregulation. —Christopher Smart, Time, 10 Aug. 2025

Super Bowl Tickets Are Not Cheap This isn't the first time this has happened, although the scale this year is quite something. —Armando Salguero Outkick, FOXNews.com, 25 July 2025

And so explicitly fighting musk will be quite something. —Steve Inskeep, NPR, 6 June 2025