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Example sentences for "quite capable"

  • He's quite capable of leaving me here to find my way back to Washington alone--quite capable!

  • A man who'd betray a friend is quite capable of lying about him.

  • When he sets about it, he's quite capable of passing twenty times in succession.

  • They would be quite capable of treating me as an intruder!

  • I believe I am quite capable of climbing a greased pole!

  • He is a hard case," men said; "and if he had a grudge against anyone, he would be quite capable of lying in ambush and shooting him as he would a squirrel.

  • My sons abuse me when I have been drinking; my wife is quite capable of poisoning my wine; I tremble for my life and for my money.

  • I think, on the contrary, that she is quite capable of asking you for the money and still sending her telegram.

  • Her father, who had caught snatches of the conversation, now leaned across towards his nephew, and said warningly: 'I think Edith is quite capable of judging for herself.

  • Your clerk seems to me a bad lot, quite capable of getting you into hot water; but he is as clever as any rogue.

  • I am bound to be on terms with him for a few days, and he is quite capable of refusing to leave my room any more.

  • Chicotin took the bouquet and walked away very fast, because he felt that if he remained longer with the flower girl he would be quite capable of crying with her.

  • I tell you again that my mother is quite capable of not letting me in if I go home without somebody to answer for me who can swear that I am innocent.

  • You see, she's quite capable of not letting me in, and making me spend the night in the street!

  • But he is quite capable of having left Paris!

  • The other party has a mind and is quite capable of making it up.

  • Desire Farr was an observant young person, quite capable of drawing conclusions.

  • Aunt Caroline was, upon occasion, quite capable of meeting a crisis.

  • Sans-Cravate is quite capable of trying it," said Jean Ficelle, who also had left his seat, to join the bystanders.

  • I fancied that I heard somebody whisper that my partner had imbibed too much madeira and champagne, but I believe her to be quite capable of doing anything under heaven without the aid of liquor.

  • She seems to be quite capable of marrying you to the heiress of millions, even against your will, especially when there is danger that a scoundrel like Macreuse may be converted into a millionaire.

  • He is quite capable of imbuing you with a taste for politics, too.

  • Rochaigue is quite capable of taking you to a session of the Chamber of Peers, under pretext of showing you beautiful conservatories and flowers and picture-galleries.

  • My sons abuse me when I’ve been drinking, and my wife is quite capable of poisoning my wine.

  • As for this Chamoureau, he is a downright idiot, who is quite capable of seconding the schemes of those men because he doesn't suspect them.

  • Havre, he's quite capable of starting for America.

  • Monsieur is quite capable of it; but still a man sometimes wears one without knowing it.

  • He is quite capable of going down into the choir one evening and turning them all out with blows from his crozier.

  • I am quite capable, if he comes to disturb us with his spying, of throwing him down the stairs, the miserly devil!


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "quite capable" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    felt like; first mortgage; glass door; intelligent creatures; present purpose; purely vegetable; quite ashamed; quite capable; quite clean; quite common; quite correct; quite distinct; quite easily; quite enough; quite impossible; quite independent; quite near; quite ready; quite small; quite soft; quite still; quite straight; quite suddenly; quite sufficient; quite unable; quite understand