How to Use quit in a Sentence

quit

1 of 3 verb
  • She quit smoking years ago.
  • She hates her job and she's thinking about quitting.
  • I wish you would quit bothering her.
  • Many workers are quitting because of poor pay.
  • He quit teaching after five years.
  • We're going to quit for the day. It's too hot to keep working.
  • She decided to quit show business.
  • She quit college after one semester.
  • These days the phone won’t quit.
    Chris Kenning, USA Today, 15 May 2026
  • The car alarm blared once, twice, three times, then quit.
    Literary Hub, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Misty quit her job to make sure her son had full-time care.
    Kate Snow, NBC news, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Most would have quit, but Cauley kept at it.
    Mark Harris Outkick, FOXNews.com, 15 June 2026
  • Close the tab or quit the browser.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 1 June 2026
  • They could be forced to quit their jobs to care for him at home.
    Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 16 Feb. 2026
  • None of them started these drugs to quit.
    Ziyad Al-Aly, The Conversation, 4 Mar. 2026
  • None of them started these drugs to quit.
    Ziyad Al-Aly, Fortune, 5 Mar. 2026
  • Calling it quits, once and for all?
    Usa Today, USA Today, 3 Feb. 2026
  • Two of his staff members quit amid the furor.
    Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Mills quit the race on April 30.
    David Weigel, semafor.com, 8 June 2026
  • And that’s when Alysa Liu quit.
    Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 20 Feb. 2026
  • Her first instinct was to quit.
    Brenda Miranda, Miami Herald, 25 Mar. 2026
  • But the dog showed no signs of quitting.
    Sara Vallone, Miami Herald, 25 Apr. 2026
  • Most have already tried and failed to quit.
    Michael Bloomberg, Twin Cities, 31 May 2026
  • And once again, the urge to quit returns.
    Jd Barker, Rolling Stone, 8 May 2026
  • In other words, don’t quit your day job yet.
    Alexei Oreskovic, Fortune, 24 Feb. 2026
  • Kelf can now barely walk and has been forced to quit his job.
    Khloe Quill, FOXNews.com, 7 Apr. 2026
  • Please folks, for your health and for your wallet, try to quit.
    Teri Sforza, Oc Register, 15 Mar. 2026
  • Why not quit and live to fight another day?
    Ryan Morik, FOXNews.com, 16 May 2026
  • Why Ricky Williams quit in his prime to search for his soul.
    Greg Cote january 26, Miami Herald, 26 Jan. 2026
  • Such events quit being for the common fan a while ago.
    Dave Hyde, Sun Sentinel, 6 June 2026

quit

2 of 3 adjective
  • Does my wife now own this lot with just a quit claim deed?
    Christopher A. Combs, AZCentral.com, 9 Dec. 2025
  • The compounding rewards founders who show up past the point where most quit.
    Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 27 May 2026
  • This would be the time, and the game, to give credit for effort, for no-quit, for almost.
    Miami Herald, 13 Oct. 2025
  • There was no quit, no drop in intensity, no lack of effort from the group.
    Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 16 Apr. 2026
  • Was getting a quit claim deed sufficient to transfer the land?
    Lorenzino Estrada, AZCentral.com, 9 Dec. 2025
  • Going it alone has a single-digit success rate, while the state program has a 32% quit rate.
    Leslie Bonilla Muñiz, IndyStar, 25 Nov. 2025
  • My story is for everyone who feels doubted and especially for that person who’s been told to give up, just quit.
    Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Belmont showed no quit, though, and flipped the field in the final two minutes of the half to set up a corner opportunity.
    Tom Mulherin, Boston Herald, 10 Sep. 2025
  • The escrow company has no problem with a quit claim deed and will issue a standard title insurance policy for us.
    Christopher A. Combs, AZCentral.com, 10 Feb. 2026
  • The result has been a group of ridiculously talented dancers with a never-say-quit attitude and a lot of stuff to say — and doing it elegantly.
    Lauren Warnecke, Chicago Tribune, 29 May 2026
  • More news to know now Jerry of Ben & Jerry's just quit, saying Unilever curtailed the brand's social activism.
    Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Potentially as a result of higher unemployment and low hiring, the overall quit rate has stayed below 2% for eight consecutive months.
    Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 17 Apr. 2026
  • Their season is all but over — mathematical elimination from playoff contention coming as early as Thursday with a regulation loss — but there’s still no quit in the team.
    Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 1 Apr. 2026
  • There’s definitely no quit in Aurora Central Catholic’s Grace Grunloh.
    Rick Armstrong, Chicago Tribune, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Exercise should be integrated into other smoking cessation programs to enhance quit success, the authors concluded.
    Teresa Mull, FOXNews.com, 9 May 2026
  • First, a quit claim deed makes no warranty of title, unlike a special warranty deed where the grantor warrants title since ownership of the property, or a general warranty deed where the grantor warrants title since the beginning of time.
    Christopher A. Combs, AZCentral.com, 9 Dec. 2025
  • Symptoms include cravings, unsuccessful quit attempts, tolerance and withdrawal.
    Melissa Rudy, FOXNews.com, 30 Jan. 2026
  • Nationwide, deed fraud – also called quit claim deed fraud or home title theft – is a growing problem, including in New York, Boston, Miami and Philadelphia.
    Donovan McCarty, The Conversation, 22 June 2026
  • Authorities also were notified by the Macomb County Register of Deeds, after a name search, that there was a quit-claim deed for the couple's Macomb Township address.
    Christina Hall, Freep.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Two prescription medications, varenicline and bupropion, also can significantly improve quit rates, especially when combined with behavioral counseling and support programs.
    Katia Hetter, CNN Money, 28 May 2026
  • In June 2024, two months after the mental health evaluation, the man executed a quit claim deed for his Hollywood condo to the company ID Investors LLC, which is managed by Shlafman, according to the affidavit.
    Angie Dimichele, Sun Sentinel, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Garcia-Roves became the official owner of the property in June 2019, when her mother, Tania, transferred ownership to her via a quit-claim deed following the death of Garcia-Roves’s father, according to records from the Miami-Dade Property Appraiser.
    Verónica Egui Brito, Miami Herald, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Indeed, a 2024 study led by remote work expert and Stanford economist Nick Bloom found that of 1,614 employees working for a Chinese technology company between 2021 and 2022, hybrid workers increased job satisfaction and decreased quit rates by one-third.
    Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 26 Feb. 2026

quit

3 of 3 noun
  • But there’s no quit in this team.
    Michael Russo, New York Times, 12 June 2026
  • But there’s no quit in this team.
    Michael Russo, New York Times, 10 June 2026
  • There was no quit in that team, in our team.
    Drew Vonscio, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Have her sign and then file a quit-claim deed to get her name off the deed.
    orlandosentinel.com, 11 Nov. 2021
  • So, like, there’s no quit from the other 10.
    Seth Emerson, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Don’t allow the high national quit rate to keep you up at night.
    Serenity Gibbons, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2022
  • There is no quit in these Sun Devils, which has to please fans.
    Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 5 Nov. 2022
  • As Bunker points out, quits and hires track each other closely.
    Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post, 26 May 2023
  • No quit in Club name Arm Holdings .
    Jim Cramer, CNBC, 2 June 2026
  • There's no worse way to go out — well, other than a voluntary quit.
    Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 17 May 2023
  • Overall, the quit rate for all non-farm jobs fell slightly from the month before.
    Michelle Cheng, Quartz, 30 Aug. 2022
  • More quits can also push companies to pay more to retain their staffs.
    Arkansas Online, 17 Dec. 2019
  • Dismissals of star teammates were the least likely to inspire more quits.
    Gabriela Riccardi, Quartz, 5 May 2023
  • To be sure, the data represents just one month and the quit rate in each state could change from month to month.
    Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 3 Dec. 2021
  • The mother signed a quit claim to give her son the house anyway and died shortly afterward.
    Liz Weston, Dallas News, 4 Apr. 2020
  • Some have suggested that the Wildcats quit late in the second half.
    Michael Lev, azcentral, 4 Nov. 2019
  • Even during a season that has gone completely off the rails, there is no quit in the coaching staff.
    Broderick Turner Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 4 Mar. 2022
  • Even though Emily stayed because of Hannah's quit, that wasn't on us.
    Dalton Ross, EW.com, 12 Oct. 2023
  • The school’s nurse quit in June because the school hadn’t paid her since December.
    Josh Verges, Twin Cities, 10 July 2019
  • Early last spring, one of the two teachers for Landon’s class of 20 quit.
    USA Today, 9 Feb. 2020
  • Sroufe, who apparently does not know the meaning of the word quit, once again asked the judge to set aside the verdict.
    Jack Greiner, Cincinnati.com, 9 July 2019
  • But such worker churn has since fallen from its fever pitch—the quits rate has dropped back to its 2019 rate.
    Jane Thier, Fortune, 9 Dec. 2023
  • The number of voluntary quits and layoffs are level, with hires down slightly.
    Bill Conerly, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2025
  • The last female assistant coach quit in 2016 because of poor pay, the suit says.
    John Wawrow, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Sep. 2019
  • The Knights took the 13-0 lead into the half, but the Patriots had no quit.
    Randy McRoberts, Baltimore Sun, 16 Sep. 2022
  • The 32-year-old quit during week 2 after rejecting a rose from her ex, Glaze.
    Dina Kaur, AZCentral.com, 25 Mar. 2026
  • The quits rate — the rate at which workers are voluntarily leaving their jobs — has also declined sharply.
    Greg Iacurci, CNBC, 22 Aug. 2025
  • The Scorpio full moon empowers you to call an unhealthy ritual or routine quits!
    Usa Today, USA Today, 1 May 2026
  • The quit rates, and the number of quits, increased month-over-month in 14 states, including Kentucky.
    Ben Tobin, The Courier-Journal, 26 Oct. 2021
  • But Abby had no quit in her, and fought her way back to the front of the field, crossing the line in first place to claim a miraculous victory.
    Terry Baddoo, USA TODAY, 26 May 2022

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