How to Use quite in a Sentence

quite

adverb

• She's quite right, you know.
• We hadn't quite made up our minds.
• Quite why he left is unclear.
• That is not quite what I said.
• I quite forgot your birthday.
• I am quite capable of doing it myself, thank you.
• They assured me that I was quite mistaken.
• No one realized quite what was happening.
• But this is not quite the show viewers watched for 324 episodes.
  — Joshua Alston, Variety, 21 Nov. 2022
• And there’s still, just to be quite frank with you, this is the beginning of a process.
  — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 8 Feb. 2024
• Now, please don't ask why; no one quite knows the reason.
  — Chris Nashawaty, EW.com, 11 Dec. 2024
• There’s a great amount of truth to that because the money isn’t quite there.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Aug. 2022
• Restaurants aren’t quite ready to give that up, though.
  — Gwendolyn Wu, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Mar. 2022
• Only this time her best was not quite good enough to win.
  — Steve Galluzzo, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2023
• Chances are, your case of RSV will feel quite similar to a run-of-the-mill cold.
  — Leah Prinzivalli, Allure, 30 Sep. 2024
• Not even a full recognition quite yet of what was to come.
  — Bill Dwyre, Los Angeles Times, 23 June 2023
• The laundry list of things that had to be addressed with my surgery is quite long.
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 30 Mar. 2023
• Keep in Mind The 496-page hardcover book may be quite heavy.
  — L. Daniela Alvarez, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 Feb. 2024
• There’s never been anyone quite like him in the 75 seasons of the NBA.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 11 June 2022
• Quartz’s Catherine Baab has more on the art of not quite dealing.
  — Quartz Staff, Quartz, 3 June 2025
• The whole thing just seemed quite ridiculous and funny.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 15 Feb. 2025
• But the zoo's newest may not seem quite as cute to some people.
  — Amy Schwabe, Journal Sentinel, 27 Jan. 2023
• But the rulings aren’t quite the end of more than four years of legal battles.
  — Ken Ritter, Fortune, 16 Feb. 2023
• Megadeth is a little closer than The Who, but that's still not quite right.
  — Rory Appleton, The Indianapolis Star, 13 Jan. 2023
• These are quite, quite complex constructions.
  — Gabrielle Emanuel, NPR, 6 June 2026
• But the caricature never quite contained her.
  — ABC News, 6 June 2026
• The journey to get there begins where the road ends, where, quite literally, the last part must be traveled on foot.
  — Valentina Di Donato, Forbes.com, 6 June 2026
• There are cut-outs on either side that reveal the engine and the handmade exhausts, which are quite noticeably short.
  — Utkarsh Sood june 05, New Atlas, 5 June 2026
• But in terms of meeting expectations, nothing fell short quite like this one.
  — Sean McIndoe, New York Times, 5 June 2026
• There’s never been an offering quite like this one.
  — Sarah Min, CNBC, 5 June 2026