How to use "quite" in a sentence

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I chimney to the boulder quite easily.

I've done quite well, but one thought still worries me: I haven't chipped much rock from the boulder

Mosquitoes mean there must be water quite close - probably at the Big Drop Rappel.

The urine tastes bad, but not quite as bad as I thought

I learnt to use it quite well

'You are old and really quite fat;

She felt quite strange

'It wasn't a pretty baby, but it's quite a pretty pig,' thought Alice.

Are you going to see the Queen today? She's quite strange too?'

And this time it vanished quite slowly

The March Hare and the Mouse were quite near him and he looked at them for ideas

He seemed very polite and he appeared to be quite a gentleman

"And swimming with dolphins is wonderful - although this isn't quite the real thing, of course."

"No, no, you're quite right

"We think it's quite generous," he said

It didn't seem quite right.

not quite," said Sala cautiously

"That's quite a thing to say, Sala."

Even when he took her in his arms, it didn't feel quite the same.

The morning-room was quite small and very different from the library

She shook hands with me and said to Maxim, 'She's quite different from what I expected

She said I was quite different from what she expected.'

'You looked quite different when I saw you before,' Beatrice told me

'Oh well,' she said, 'I suppose he knows Mrs Danvers quite well.'

'I think he came to Manderley quite a lot when Rebecca was alive

'It's quite simple really,' I said.

'That's quite all right,' Maxim said

If I had two or three thousand pounds, I could live quite well

She was certain to be quite late, but she wasn't going to worry about waking him.

At least a year and a half, maybe two years, had passed since a man had looked at her in quite that fashion

She had lasted quite a while herself

"That's not quite the way they explained the system in law school," Elliot said.

Harry Kennebeck had come from a dirt-poor family and, by his own estimation at least, made quite a lot of himself

Although Reno didn't jump all night with quite the same energy as Las Vegas, and although many tourists had gone to bed, the casino at Harrah's was still relatively busy

She was quite lovely

She cried out, but then she saw that Death could not quite reach her

The Eyes of Darkness was assigned to a writing team, two quite personable women who seemed bright and enthusiastic

Consequently, each draft of the script was full of plot holes and illogic that never quite got repaired.

Later, we became quite friendly and he admitted that, for a long time, he had suspected me of killing Andre

She never tried to defend herself and even got quite annoyed when she realized people thought she was mad

But now I think about it, you're quite right

It has grown quite a lot, but I recognized it all right.'

She remained quite still, looking down at her hands

His face went quite pale

I was quite angry, but my husband was so miserable that I said nothing.

When it was burning, he said, 'I think it proves beyond all doubt that Madame Delambre was quite insane.'

It was quite empty and I was alone.'

'Not quite, Monsieur Delambre,' he said

'No, not quite

'I don't quite understand.' I said.

'It's quite true, sir, I heard a sneeze

You remember, Mr Clement that I was quite shocked when I heard Mr Redding had confessed to the crime

'Mad - quite mad,' Melchett whispered to me.

Of course the two were quite unable to do anything, so they went back to the town again to get help

At that time it was quite clear in my own mind that the Thing had come from the planet Mars, and I felt impatient to see it opened

One or two adventurous people went into the darkness and crawled quite near the Martians, but they never returned, because now and again a light-ray swept round the common, and the Heat-Ray was ready to follow

Then came a violent crash quite close to us, that shook the ground

My feelings were quite different

When the smoke had begun to settle, it stayed quite close to the ground so that even fifteen metres up in the air, on the roots and upper floors of houses and in high trees, there was a chance of escaping its poison

Probably because it did not fire, it managed to get quite close

But the other warships were now quite close and moving in towards the shore.

It may be that on Mars they moved around on them quite easily.

The curate, who had been lying silently with his arms over his head, looked up as I passed, cried out quite loudly and came running after me.

The curate, I found, was quite unable to discuss anything

At that moment, I felt the beginning of something that soon grew quite clear in my mind, that worried me for many days

After a week or two running around the fields on empty stomachs they'll come and be caught quite happily.' He paused

Neither of us wanted to start digging again, and when he suggested a meal I was quite happy to agree.

'That's quite difficult to eat,' Harris said, smiling.

He was quite famous for his scrambled eggs

Harris and I sang songs and we were quite happy.

When Mercy took it to her, she was quite confused

'If I were you, I would stop worrying because it seems Mercy can take care of herself quite well,' said James.

In the 1950s, many countries in the West became quite rich