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
• The truth is, the marathon was born out of, quite literally, death.
  — Sheon Han February 9, Longreads, 9 Feb. 2023
• But experts aren't quite sure what this looks like just yet.
  — Maggie O'Neill, Health, 8 June 2024
• The curved shape, the milky, not-quite-opaque finish, the color (obviously).
  — Marci Robin, Allure, 23 Feb. 2026
• Cybertruck hype has not quite translated to sales, since the truck has become one of the brand's least popular nameplates.
  — Charles Singh, USA Today, 23 Feb. 2026
• At 47 years old, quite young by standards of an all-world novelist, Groff is still on her way up.
  — Literary Hub, 23 Feb. 2026
• With slower offenses in the Big Ten, that approach could work quite well.
  — Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2026