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Example sentences for "quite true"

  • Quite true; I never was more in earnest in my life.

  • Quite true, Stride, I have no doubt that you are nautically as well as morally correct, so I leave it to you to bring round the mistress, and consider that matter as settled.

  • All that your worship has said is quite true," answered the lad; "but the end of the business turned out just the opposite of what your worship supposes.

  • This story which everybody declared was quite true is placed no longer ago than in Mahommed Ali Pasha's time.

  • Many people have seen him there, ma'am, quite true.

  • Moreover, he said he could not get on with his small pay without women to keep house, which is quite true here, and women are not respectable in a man's house on other terms.

  • The Sheykh-el-Ababdeh is quite true; it might cost many lives.

  • And yet, whilst all that is quite true, we come to our own human lives, and we find there the true application of such words as these: to-morrow is to be like yesterday.

  • It may be quite true, that you cannot help feeling sorrowful in the presence of sorrowful thoughts, and glad in the presence of thoughts that naturally kindle gladness.

  • That my father is an embryo not more incomplete than any present is quite true; but that, you will see on reflection, is saying very little on his behalf.

  • Quite true; my reason, and I may say my conscience, were greatly perplexed upon a matter extremely important and altogether new to me.

  • No doubt that is quite true; and rightly understood that is a strengthening and a glad truth.

  • That's quite true, but you must remember that the rates the working classes at present pay are spent mostly for the benefit of other people.

  • It's quite true that in the past both of 'em have passed good laws, but they've only done it when public opinion was so strong in favour of it that they knew there was no getting out of it, and then it was a toss up which side did it.

  • I've been thinking over what you said last night; it's quite true.

  • And further, it is quite true that if all the money were distributed equally amongst all the people tomorrow, it would all be up in heaps again in a very short time.

  • I have read your family history with immense interest, and what you say is quite true.

  • It is quite true," said Del Ferice, with a quiet smile.

  • Nevertheless, your Excellency," replied Pasquale, "it is quite true.

  • Rorlund: Yes, unhappily that is quite true.

  • Bernick: That is quite true--we are not yet agreed upon the matter I was going to mention.

  • Hilmar: Yes, unfortunately, it is quite true.

  • Quite true, sir; but not lofty enough for that, Captain Cuffe.

  • Quite true, sir; I was thinking of proposing something of the sort, not a minute since.

  • Quite true, Captain Cuffe; and yet this is the only chance that the lieutenants have for getting ahead a little out of the regular course.

  • My dear," replied her aunt, "what Ranald says is quite true.

  • It is quite true; I am more a stay-at-home than I used to be.

  • It is quite true, and I congratulate you, and wish you every success.

  • No, quite true; but some poor people seem to make more out of small things.

  • Yes, that is quite true, there are so few nice fellows,' said Gladys innocently.

  • All that is true, quite true--too true, indeed.

  • It is quite true that I have been fond of Roderick Duncan, all my life.

  • That the doctrine of natural selection presupposes evolution is quite true; but it is not true that evolution necessarily implies natural selection.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "quite true" 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:
    allegorical interpretation; had such; pale brown; quit their; quite alone; quite capable; quite clean; quite dead; quite distinct; quite fresh; quite impossible; quite know; quite large; quite near; quite obvious; quite satisfied; quite soft; quite straight; quite sufficient; quite well; quite wrong; short period; thought little; volcanic rocks; white hands; woman will