How To Use Quits In A Sentence
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Guiding Light to go dark -- The longest-running soap opera will call it quits in September.
Short Takes
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So don't tell me that this game will eventually come to a stalemate like chess, where the player turns over his king and quits.
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Now, if you jest turn over a new leaf in the book of life, and try to fotch out right in the end, I believe the old man would cry quits on the old score.
Hatchie, the Guardian Slave; or, The Heiress of Bellevue
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The recent decision by four veteran House Democrats to call it quits is raising questions about whether more will soon follow as the 2010 political climate grows more threatening in the midterm congressional elections, a year when government and business forecasters are predicting high unemployment and a slow economic recovery.
POLITICAL HOT TOPICS: December 22, 2009
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Of the performances, she acquits herself well in the lead role, but too many of the other performers feel under-used.
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If Brown wins on Tuesday I expect by end of the week at least 10 Democrats will call it quits
Yes, Earl Pomeroy (D, ND-AL). Why DON’T you retire? - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState
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When an engine quits, reduce the power on the live engine and correct yaw with ard opposite rudder; then increase power as much as you can hold.
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When he quits football he admits he could turn his back on the beautiful game to become involved in the church.
The Sun
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Its high time to call it quits to all the intra-party fight and fight againt the re "pube" lican party.
Eight Edwards delegates now moving to Obama
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Costly take with warlike machine joking, can quits people is estimated to giant national defence criticism.
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If the defendant makes a payment into court, the plaintiff may seize it and call quits.
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Jon and Kate Gosselin announce their separation (Jon & Kate Plus 8, Season 5) The duo called it quits after 10 years of marriage, eight kids and countless tabloid rumors.
Sneak Preview: 25 Most Shocking Reality Moments of All Time
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Unsurprisingly she promptly quits and leaves him on babysitting duty, while trying to juggle work at the same time.
The Sun
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I call it quits for the day, having earned the rituals&em.the long bath, the shave, the afternoon muse.
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What apter seasonal reading, as conservative opinion in America debates double or quits in the Middle East?
Summer Reading
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They are rumored to be piecing it together off-screen, but onscreen it's all about calling it quits.
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The surfers called it quits after one was nipped by a shark.
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If the defendant makes a payment into court, the plaintiff may seize it and call quits.
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The dinner at the club is usually followed by a night of dancing, and at these galas, he is famous for tangoing and fox-trotting with every man's wife until the band packs up and calls it quits.
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Tenor Michael König acquits himself well as Katerina's mercurial lover Serguéi, and Ludovít Ludha, in the role of Katerina's abusive stepfather Boris, summons that notorious Shostakovian enigma as authoritarian kulak and bumbling sexual predator.
A Rollicking and Riveting 'Lady Macbeth'
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He acquits himself well as director, and coaxes excellent performances from the adults.
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All we know is that, unlike A-18, it lacked an ocean view; had an isolated, jungly feel; and was surrounded by tiny, yellow-breasted birds called bananaquits.
Back to Maho Bay: A family trip to St. John in the Virgin Islands stirs old memories
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`All right, stop, quits, pax -- exesis,' and then he slipped the key into the lock.
FALLEN WOMEN
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When small press magazines call it quits or when corporations drum out publications to fill a profit margin.
Damn it...part deux.
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Jane's options can be exercised prior to the stock vesting, subject to a buy-back by the company at the exercise price if she quits early.
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A multi-ethnic jury acquits all officers charged in the shooting.
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Later in the movie, Pippo acquits himself as expected, scheming to save Elena with a tailor-made plan that should sew the plot up nicely - but the audience knows that it's about to get knotty.
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Gina quits her job and scrimps together enough money to open her own salon.
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I paid for last week's shopping and you paid for this week's, so let's call it quits.
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Eriksson quits as a result and is later seen in Chelsea village dining with a Russian zillionaire.
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But again, we are giving far greater credence to that idea every time a jury acquits another guilty man.
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So to say he was not impeached is like saying that a person who quits a job right before he was about to be fired, was not fired.
Think Progress » The Echelon Myth
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Shall we just call it quits and end this conversation?
Times, Sunday Times
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The context shows that the poet thinks his sudden side-issue not trivial or tedious, but quite the contrary, he quits it only because he cannot "boult it to the bren", i.e., sift it down, analyze it satisfactorily.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
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Whether one's partner becomes a born-again teetotaller, re-embraces their Ibiza dancing days in middle age, turns from T-bone-loving carnivore to vegan overnight or quits smoking and turns evangelical, there's nothing more annoying than one's own leopard changing spots.
Dear Mariella: I do yoga, which makes my boyfriend reckon that I've joined a cult. Can we get past this?
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Nobody will be surprised if he one day quits to work there full-time.
The Sun
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Now you've broken it ... well, let's hope they count Miss Tuckey as a pro and call it quits.
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finally quits with the loan
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He quits his job only to come back, albeit reluctantly, when a series of grisly murders baffles the police force.
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When he got out of hospital and beat her with a hair dryer, she called it quits.
Notorious: The Maddest and Baddest Sportsmen on the Planet
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But quits are less common during recessions, one reason the recipiency rate is greatest during recessions.
NYT > Home Page
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The Englishman quits this life proudly and disdainfully when the whim takes him, but the Roman must have an indulgentia in articulo mortis; he can neither live nor die.
A Philosophical Dictionary
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I've been reading three books simultaneously that are doing nothing for me and need to call it quits on all of them so that I can enjoy life and so on.
Not #28, alas
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And from what he told Mr. Letterman, it seems that he has what's called a "noncompete" clause in his contract, meaning he can't work anywhere else in TV without NBC's permission-even if he quits.
Andy Richter's Rant ��� Susan Lyne, Made for TV ��� Eddie Hayes' Legal Memo to Norm Macdonald
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The local name "sikyé-bird" supplied by Allsopp's DCEU would traditionally be spelled "sucrier-bird", which gives a better idea of its etymology; we also have a variety of small, sweet banana called the sucrier fig which, as you might expect, bananaquits are very fond of.
Languagehat.com: BANANAQUIT.
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But this seemed to be one of the first times that I really believed that Katherine was considering calling it quits with Jake.
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There was a significant negative relationship between the display sighting rate with regard to the weeks of observation, indicating that fewer grassquits were displaying as the season progressed.
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The board subsequently decided to call it quits, just shy of what would have been the Classic's 20th event.
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In a story datelined Leslie, in rural south Georgia, The Associated Press writes of convicts calling it quits at 3:25 p.m. -- more than 2½ hours before the crew of Mexicans and Guatemalans they replaced.
Kristian Ramos: The GOP's Schism On E-Verify
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She performs a solo of impossible postures, in which she acquits herself with aplomb, but which leaves the spectator's mind and muscles tensed to the point of spasm.
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we're now quits
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Bihar JD-U infighting: Lallan quits post of state party chief
WN.com - Articles related to Vasundhara Raje quits as leader of Opposition in Rajasthan assembly
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But one thing is certain, when Favre finally does decide to call it quits, his legacy will tremendously be affected by the scandal that is getting more attention than whether the two ankle fractures he sustained last week in the third quarter of Minnesota's 28-24 loss at Green Bay, will prevent him from continuing his NFL record of starting in 291 consecutive games (315 including the postseason).
Ann Liguori: Brett Favre's Legacy Tarnished
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Ian Storey as Erik looks unromantic, but acquits himself well in this uncharacteristically Italianate role.
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Unsurprisingly she promptly quits and leaves him on babysitting duty, while trying to juggle work at the same time.
The Sun
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My dictionary defines quitter as "one that quits", it is also a synonym for abdicator: "one who formally relinquishes an office or responsibility".
Palin says she is not a quitter
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In our study, however, perches used by the grassquits emerged above the surrounding grassland vegetation, and displaying males were visible when resting, but became more conspicuous to us when they executed their displays.
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Recent studies of blue-black grassquits and blue grosbeaks suggest that structural plumage coloration is dependent on nutritional condition and thus could reliably signal mate quality.
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But no one was willing to officially call it quits.
Christianity Today
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NY Daily News: "Bush press pal quits over gay prostie link" by on
02/10/2005
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To avenge his wrongs, and the loss of his betrothed, who is given to his rival and dies, he blows up the steamer in presence of an assembled multitude, and quits his native land with a courtezan who has conceived a liking for him and will provide him with money to recommence his enterprise elsewhere.
Balzac
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At midnight, the student decided to call it quits and closed his books
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You could be selecting fuel lines that have just enough avgas left to get a couple hundred feet off the ground before the engine quits.
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Nobody will be surprised if he one day quits to work there full-time.
The Sun
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The asp is the largest and most beautiful of all; but that never, of its own accord, quits the
The Roman History of Ammianus Marcellinus During the Reigns of the Emperors Constantius, Julian, Jovianus, Valentinian, and Valens
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Unsurprisingly she promptly quits and leaves him on babysitting duty, while trying to juggle work at the same time.
The Sun
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Nobody will be surprised if he one day quits to work there full-time.
The Sun
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When a cold finally quits with such treatment, it is more an expression of despair in convincing its host of the need to detoxify, slow down and rest.
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A quitter never wins—and— a winner never quits. Napoleon Hill
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Palin quits a real job and is now prostituting herself for what $12 million and counting?
Saturday spotlight on Michigan
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Are we quits or do you still owe me a pound?
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Is Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) about to call it quits too??
2010 SEN +4 to +8 R at this point… | RedState
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Are we quits or do you still owe me a pound?
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Have the glitzy pair really called it quits, or are they planning a secret wedding?
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That means a 35-year-old woman who quits her job to raise kids can't touch the money for 25 years.
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Director Scott Michell acquits himself admirably; this is his first feature, and it moves along smoothly, professionally, rhythmically.
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Max Attrill is calling it quits after 49 years in hardware and trade supplies.
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To his other side and practically leaning up against him was another masked teammate, the pixyish Silver Sylph, whose secret identity allowed her to fade into obscurity soon after The Terror Syndicate called it quits.
Masked
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If the command-line options are invalid or the configuration file has an error, Synergy writes an error message to the shell and quits.
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Unsurprisingly she promptly quits and leaves him on babysitting duty, while trying to juggle work at the same time.
The Sun
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A bartender quits, a server walks, and the process starts all over again.
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December 6, 2005: The jury acquits Al-Arian on eight charges while deadlocking 10 to 2 in favor of acquittal on nine others.
Jane Guskin: A Matter of Justice
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She quits her job and vacates her apartment.
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Bled by lawsuits and unable to cobble together an agreement with the recording industry to make the service legit, the company finally called it quits.
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NY Daily News writes "Bush press pal quits over gay prostie link":
Your Right Hand Thief
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I grabbed the gaffing hook and managed to inflict a minor flesh wound in his calf before we called it quits.
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That rate reflects the frequency with which grassquits were encountered in display, because the time spent in the field involved both focal observations and time spent searching for individuals.
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And if ye fain forsake, I’ll requite till quits we cry!
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Dad and his buddy decided to call it quits for the time being and poled us back to shore.
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But if ye fain forsake, I’ll requite till quits we cry!
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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As for the film, it acquits itself adequately, just like its prequel.
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Harper is signed through next season, but he might call it quits after this season, even if he helps the Lakers to a championship.
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Goteshoppard quits his gabhard cloke to sate with Becchus.
Finnegans Wake
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And since the "streamer", as i2i likes to call it, is powered by a built-in rechargeable battery, you can listen in for up to 5 hours before calling it quits.
Broadcast your MP3s with i2i Stream | Sync Blog
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Unless and until any government starts representing the people and quits allowing banks, insurance giants, ceo's and the bootlicking politicians they buy, to control policy, things will remain the same.
The Gun Trail: Riding along with Houston's ATF
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Costly take with warlike machine joking, can quits people is estimated to giant national defence criticism.
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She then heads off on holiday to Spain with Lanna, returning to find a cheque for a hundred grand lying on the doormat, so quits her job in the supermarket and heads back to the sun.
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Unlike the usual heroine, she has been given enough scope to perform and she acquits herself well.
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They raised $630,000 through listener donations, and then called it quits.
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His exact reasons for calling it quits remained a matter for heated public conjecture.
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Fortunately, the timeless musical genius knew when to call it quits, though his stunning creations live on.
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When he quits football he admits he could turn his back on the beautiful game to become involved in the church.
The Sun
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Death quits (all) scores.
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A female firefighter...facing departmental charges of cocaine use has decided to call it quits.
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Around noontime, I thought I'd call it quits -- people were shooting at pine cones and whatever moved or didn't move.
The Best Camo for Hunting Away from Home
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What professions should Alec Baldwin pursue once he quits acting?
Once Alec Baldwin Quits Acting, What Jobs Should He Pursue? » MTV Movies Blog
