Sentence examples for had recently quit from inspiring English sources

He had recently quit practicing law because, he said, "It didn't stir my emotions".

"Before the revolution, you lived in a box, the box of the Muslim Brotherhood," Mohammed Noor, a young dentist who had recently quit the organization, told me.

One spring, years ago, I hitchhiked north from Key West, getting a ride from a young Kentuckian who had recently quit the Kentucky National Guard.

Soper discovered that Mallon had recently quit the Warrens' kitchen, and that typhoid fever had broken out in several of the houses that had previously employed her.

Mr. Huoth had recently quit his latest factory job and was working a few hours each week at the Youth Leadership Project, an outreach group.

He said he had recently quit his job in public television, and hoped to arrive at "a business structure that will allow me to do everything I want to do, because I'm too curious to pin myself down".

One lady has recently quit the group as she no longer hears voices.

Having recently quit smoking, she vaped discreetly, drank with relish, and joked about her gardening skills.

Several high-level E.P.A. officials have recently quit the agency, citing the impossibility of doing their jobs.

Kim happened to be available for edification, having recently quit a job that she had found depressing: selling home-security systems over the phone.

Mr. Hitchens is devoted to wit and bawdy wordplay and to good Scotch and cigarettes (though he has recently quit smoking) and long nights spent talking.