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How to use quotes in a sentence

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One of the quotes attributed to me makes me sound a bit of a prat, but I can't really complain as I did actually say that.
I will put it in scare quotes, because it feels like a word I need tongs for.
I put this in quotes because that phrase was once used quite a bit in America.
He insists we were given no information by a Crown source other than its press officer, who did not provide the quotes in our article.
The report she quotes, by the way, is available through this site, but only if you're prepared to pay for it.
He showers you with quotable quotes and his interviews are peppered with sensational statements.
I think it's good when the Senator speaks of God and quotes Old Testament Scripture.
None of the books quotes any sources or authorities for its statements, and all have pathetic indexes.
Well, the article in the accountants' newsletter referred to above quotes an example.
To support his argument, he quotes opinion polls showing that people in prosperous societies are often unhappy with their lives.
That's odd, because there's compelling evidence that, at the very least, he fabricated quotes in the speech.
The original is unfortunately lost, but quotes from the text can be found in other books.
You can go into any of these great religious texts and pull out quotes randomly here and there to prove all kinds of things.
Their quotes and epigrams take up a sometimes shocking amount of space in columns and essays.
Schoolchildren are required to learn vast amounts of quotations by heart, and allusions and quotes are sprinkled throughout everyday speech.
Councillors were last night in closed session considering quotes from different firms for the general repair work.
Once you have an idea of the areas where you'd like concrete to be poured, contact service professionals to get quotes.
Officials are understood to have approached three internet companies seeking quotes for the cost of setting up advertising software.
Direct comparisons with previous surveys, however, cannot be made as they obtain quotes for different profiles of drivers.
He was very fidgety, he had a pager with him at all times, which he was checking the stock market quotes on, the movements within the day.
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Examples from Classical Literature
He quotes many French proverbs, and then gives English adages that more or less match them.
He quotes a case of hypertrophy of the spleen which he cured with this fruit.
What Dr. Inge, who quotes these words, says of Plotinus declares his own character.
He speaks with sympathy of suttee, and he quotes the Volga-Kalmucks with approval.
He also quotes from the Chronicle of tabari a story of a princess who was made to bleed by a rose-leaf lying in her bed.
And the first is a leonine Monster, and for its authority he quotes Rondeletius.
The New English Dictionary quotes two examples illustrating the early connexion of the term with the law or lawyers.
Gould quotes a record of one party which took 1500 dozen eggs on one small island in Torres Strait.
Mommsen quotes the price as 12,000 denarii, which would amount to about the same sum.
Emerson quotes many of his sayings, not one of them worth preserving, all marked by a kind of violence and disjointedness.
The variation between single and double quotes for nested quotations is unchanged.
Inconsistencies in quotation mark usage, single quotes, double quotes, and quotes-within-quotes are all as in the original.
Also, many occurrences of mismatched single and double quotes remain as they were in the original.
When especial attention is called to a word the single quote-marks are used in lieu of the old way of double quotes or italic.
By 'insolent,' not 'condolent,' as Anthony Wood quotes, Puttenham meant original.
The sentiments of Augustin, which he quotes, are truly judicious and edifying.
Probably every traveler who goes to Cork quotes the lovely old bit of doggerel, but the corkonian smiles and smiles.
This document was taken from hand-written letters in the eighteenth century, and also contains quotes from other authors.
Today she was keeping her computer out, writing down quotes and tweeting thoughts as they came.
In it, Williams quotes correspondence, journals, old advertisements, and other such unpoetical text.
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