QUARTER in a Sentence

Learn QUARTER from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

252 example sentences for QUARTER, such as:

1. A quarter of an hour passed thus.
2. The clock struck a quarter past three.
3. Profits fell during the third quarter.
4. I got a call at quarter of seven one night.
5. Yesterday, I had breakfast at a quarter past seven.

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 Meanings and Examples of QUARTER
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quarter
 n.  one of four equal parts; a fourth part or portion
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  She took him by the arm, and walked with him about a quarter of a mile into the country; they arrived at a lonely house, surrounded with gardens and canals.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In VII
2  Cunegonde asked a quarter of an hour to consider of it, to consult the old woman, and to take her resolution.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In XIII
3  He was a quarter Spaniard, born of a mongrel in Tucuman; he had been singing-boy, sacristan, sailor, monk, pedlar, soldier, and lackey.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In XIV
4  Behind the house was a garden, a quarter of an acre in extent.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI—WHO GUARDED HIS HOUSE FOR HIM
5  This quarter of an acre, so poorly planted, so encumbered with mean buildings and sheds, was dear to him, and satisfied his wants.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII—WHAT HE BELIEVED
6  He entered, then came out a quarter of an hour later.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING
7  L'Epingle Noire was already plotting in his own quarter.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I—THE YEAR 1817
8  The streets of the Latin quarter, filled with throngs of students and grisettes, saw the beginning of their dream.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—A DOUBLE QUARTETTE
9  There was, at Montfermeil, near Paris, during the first quarter of this century, a sort of cook-shop which no longer exists.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—ONE MOTHER MEETS ANOTHER MOTHER
10  As his factory was a centre, a new quarter, in which there were a good many indigent families, rose rapidly around him; he established there a free dispensary.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER II—MADELEINE
11  "It is impossible to wait another quarter of an hour," said Madeleine to the peasants, who were staring at him.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—FATHER FAUCHELEVENT
12  At the expiration of a quarter of an hour she left her sewing and went to read the Thenardiers' letter once more on the staircase.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER X—RESULT OF THE SUCCESS
13  She remained thus for a quarter of an hour, her eyes riveted on the door, motionless and apparently holding her breath.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VI—SISTER SIMPLICE PUT TO THE PROOF
14  The clock struck a quarter past three.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VI—SISTER SIMPLICE PUT TO THE PROOF
15  A quarter of an hour passed thus.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VIII—AN ENTRANCE BY FAVOR
Example Sentence: (42 in 3 pages)
16  The invention of the radiotelegraph should antecede the development of television by a quarter of a century.
17  He declined to make projections about fourth quarter earnings.
18  Only a quarter of registered voters actually voted in the election.
19  A quarter of all workers admit to taking time off when they are not ill.
20  His agent raked a quarter off everything he earned this time.
21  Cetia expects to announce a PowerPC-based graphics board and a graphic single-board computer in the second quarter.
22  Pushing the number of unit sales up every quarter can't be continued indefinitely.
23  A quarter of current inmates have committed violent crimes.
24  Farmers could see a quarter of their income swallowed up by the interest rate rise.
25  Yesterday, I had breakfast at a quarter past seven.
26  I got a call at quarter of seven one night.
27  Profits fell during the third quarter.
28  Microsoft shrugged off a 14% slump in PC sales during the first quarter to report net income of $6.1bn (£3.9m), up 18% from $5.1bn a year ago, beating analysts' forecasts.
29  Facebook Inc's Instagram lost a quarter of daily users a week after it rolled out and then withdrew policy changes that incensed users who feared the photo-sharing service would use their pictures without compensation.
30  When you see famous people at close quarters, they always appear much smaller than you imagined them.