How to Use quite right in a Sentence

quite right

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• Or, no, that’s not quite right.
  — Literary Hub, 15 Dec. 2025
• Things just … haven’t looked quite right.
  — Colton Pouncy, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2025
• But something didn’t look quite right.
  — Don Riddell, CNN Money, 18 Oct. 2025
• But that isn’t quite right, either.
  — Jon Allsop, New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2026
• If those don’t sound quite right for her, scroll on for more top gifts.
  — Genevieve Cepeda, People.com, 19 Nov. 2024
• Not quite right – Helm does not have jug ears like that.
  — Literary Hub, 3 Nov. 2025
• But wait, maybe something’s not quite right here.
  — Jennifer Maas, Variety, 23 Feb. 2026
• Solis thought both runs were fine, maybe even good, but not quite right.
  — Luis G. Rendon, Los Angeles Times, 1 Feb. 2024
• This wasn't quite right for a funeral.
  — Angela Andaloro, PEOPLE, 8 Apr. 2026
• Though the swings look good, the actual golf isn’t quite right.
  — Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 25 June 2025
• Baez always had her own deep sense that something wasn’t quite right.
  — Jennie Rothenberg Gritz, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Oct. 2023
• If none of these suggestions are quite right for you, don’t give up.
  — David Kubes, Forbes, 21 Nov. 2024
• The reporting, of course, says that’s not quite right.
  — Tara Palmeri, Vanity Fair, 12 Feb. 2026
• There are games when there are alarms going off that somebody’s not quite right.
  — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 19 Aug. 2023
• Perhaps ‘shadow text’ isn’t quite right—the words are out in the open.
  — Book Marks july 17, Literary Hub, 17 July 2025
• But nothing ever felt quite right.
  — Sarah Henry, Louisville Courier Journal, 13 Oct. 2025
• If a golf skirt or dress isn’t quite right for you, consider one of the best golf pants.
  — Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 28 Feb. 2025
• Choking was his first guess, but the behavior did not seem quite right.
  — Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Dec. 2025
• One is tempted to say this is his most personal work, but that isn’t quite right.
  — Jason Zinoman, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2023
• This confirmed my notion that we were supposed to look for shapes, but that wasn’t quite right.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
• Blake Snell’s first season as a Dodger never felt quite right.
  — Fabian Ardaya, New York Times, 1 Feb. 2026
• Sometimes outside of work but the timing was never quite right.
  — Sean Joseph Outkick, FOXNews.com, 30 July 2026
• Was working on his shoulder earlier and still doesn't look quite right.
  — Joe Nguyen, Denver Post, 6 Nov. 2025
• Nellie’s parents both seem to know there’s something not quite right with their daughter.
  — Shawna Seed, Dallas Morning News, 15 Jan. 2026
• Still not quite right, though understandable.
  — Literary Hub, 3 Nov. 2025
• Beautiful, but too refined, too wet-looking, not quite right.
  — Mila Jaroniec, Allure, 3 Sep. 2025
• Sources close to the production have said the comparison is not quite right.
  — Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 19 Sep. 2024
• That left a potential reach at a receiver or a linebacker, which didn’t feel quite right.
  — Luca Evans, Denver Post, 18 Feb. 2026
• His mechanics and delivery, the way the ball was coming out of his hand, none of it felt quite right.
  — Nick Piecoro, The Arizona Republic, 28 Apr. 2023
• But when a player has the season of his life and decides his swing isn’t quite right, that might be more telling of who a guy is.
  — Brody Miller, The Athletic, 20 Aug. 2024