How to use "quarter" in a sentence

I now have only a quarter of a litre of water left

By a quarter to seven, she had gone.'

'It's quarter past two

Shortly before noon, two high rollers from Dallas sat down at a blackjack table and, in three hours, lost a quarter of a million bucks; they were laughing and joking when they left the table to try another game

"It's only a quarter to four."

They traveled an additional quarter of a mile before Luciano Bellicosti's home and place of business came into sight on the left, beyond a black-bordered sign that grandiosely stated the nature of the service that he provided: FUNERAL DIRECTOR AND GRIEF COUNSELOR

She and Elliot had turned off Interstate 80 a quarter of an hour ago, following the route Danny had marked, circling the edge of the wilderness

About a quarter of each meeting was tedious chum talk about the executive's and the approved writers' mutual acquaintances

Then I saw that the hands of the clock pointed to a quarter to five, which meant that it was really half-past four, so I got up and went to the sitting room

So, I'll come to the vicarage this evening, as we arranged, at a quarter past six.' And he walked away.

When I returned at about a quarter to four, Mary told me that Mr Redding was waiting for me in the study.

'He has been here since a quarter past six.'

Discovery of the body was at about a quarter to seven

'But didn't you tell him that the study clock was always kept a quarter of an hour ahead?'

'But, Haydock,' The colonel said, 'if Redding admits shooting him at a quarter to seven...'

'Now,' Melchett said, 'You say you went to the vicarage at about a quarter to seven

'It must have been after six - quarter past - something like that.'

At just after a quarter past six

Ten minutes - a quarter of an hour - not longer than that.'

And anyway, why do you keep your clock a quarter of an hour ahead?'

So I met Mrs Protheroe that evening at a quarter past six and told her my decision

At a quarter past six

Mrs Protheroe said that she had last seen her husband at about a quarter to six when they parted in the village street

She had gone to the vicarage at about a quarter past six and thought that the study was empty

Colonel Protheroe had arrived at a quarter past six exactly

And at a quarter-past seven I saw her walking to Old Hall

He did not know that it was always kept a quarter of an hour ahead

'But mother sent a note to me, and I arranged to leave the tennis party early and meet her near the vicarage at a quarter past six

I heard it first from my newspaper boy at about a quarter to nine and I went to the common immediately.

As it was then about a quarter past five, I went home, had some tea and walked up to the station to meet him.

These continued for a quarter of an hour, firing blindly at Martians too far away to be seen