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. He entered, then came out a quarter of an hour later.
4. L'Epingle Noire was already plotting in his own quarter.
5. Behind the house was a garden, a quarter of an acre in extent.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of QUARTER
quarter
 n.  one of the four major division of the compass
 v.  provide housing for (military personnel)
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)
1  The new company, to be called Sony BMG, will have roughly a quarter of global sales and will rival Universal Music for the number one spot.
2  A sixty-eight year old dealer had his warehouse raided this week and the police confiscated nearly a million and a quarter bangers, rockets and firecrackers.
3  Demand for Taiwanese goods likely will accelerate from the second quarter, as strong Asian demand offsets the effects of a U.S. slowdown.
4  Their clubs failed to reach the quarter finals of the European champion's league, and the national teams was knocked out of the World Cup by south Korea.
5  Marius and his fellow students hurriedly improvised a rough barricade to block police access to the students' quarter.
6  Many receive government food rations, and about a quarter are living in welfare camps.
7  The history of the past quarter century illustrates how a President may aggrandize his power to act aggressively in international affairs without considering the wishes of Congress.
8  When the opposing hockey team scored its third goal only minutes into the first quarter, the home team's spirits seemed to flag.
9  "Conditions will probably only start to retract from the middle of the first quarter of 2007," Downing said.
10  When we were ready to shove off, we were a quarter of a mile below the island.
11  To him a beaver is a quarter of a fur coat for his wife or a nice hat.
12  Almost a quarter of the world's mammals face extinction within thirty years, according to a United Nations report on the state of the global environment.
13  In a country where a quarter of students say guns are easily accessible at home, expecting any measure to make a school invulnerable is unrealistic.
14  When we was ready to shove off we was a quarter of a mile below the island, and it was pretty broad day; so I made Jim lay down in the canoe and cover up with the quilt, because if he set up people could tell he was a nigger a good ways off.
15  I made two mile and a half, and then struck out a quarter of a mile or more towards the middle of the river.