Sentence examples for quite absent from inspiring English sources
His father "was quite absent.
A self-replenishing complimentary fruit basket: quite, quite absent.
Nearly or quite absent on the clays and richer soils of the basin.
That has a charge quite absent from the central, romantic story.
"They probably remember me as quite absent, whereas my memory is that I put the kids first.
Fear, shadowy as the sharks beyond the nets at Muizenberg, was never quite absent from our sunlit African sojourns.
I said, "And were you?" and felt his hand, rubbing my back encouragingly, move down not quite absent-mindedly to just above my waist.
He got to know Bobby Fischer ("a prized piece in my people collection") so well that he helped the chess prodigy, otherwise quite absent-minded, navigate the subway home to Brooklyn.
Let us suppose that Mr Smith is quite absent-minded, so he often leaves the gas oven in his kitchen on.
And yet, even knowing all this, even facing the prospect of several hopeless, fitfully enraging but mostly enervating months of it, we come back, shake off the never-quite-absent hangover, and pour another round.
In fact, his tone changes to regret only once during our chat, when he confesses to being a "quite-absent father," presumably one of the "mistakes" with which he is "trying to catch up".
