Sentence examples for having recently quit from inspiring English sources

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

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

Mosse, who holds the title of honorary director, says she joined the prize committee in the first place because, pregnant with her second child and having recently quit her job as a publisher at Random House because she wanted to write a book, she had time on her hands.

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

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

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

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.

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.

"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.

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.

He had recently quit teaching on an MFA Master of Fine Artss) program in the US, and felt that gave him the freedom to spell out a few home truths.