Sentence examples for quite herself from inspiring English sources

'quite herself' is a grammatically-correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to describe a situation in which something (an individual, a location, etc.) is back to normal after a difficult period or period of change. For example, "After the move, the family was finally quite itself again."

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She seemed slightly bad-tempered, not quite herself.

She is anyone who has ever stood up against oppression, but she is never quite herself.

The protagonist, aided by lip-synching, dolled-up body doubles, isn't always quite herself.

But Sam isn't quite herself in STRAWBERRY TATTOO (Crown, paper, $12.95), which finds her in New York for a group show at a trendy SoHo gallery.

Perhaps out of a writer's curiosity, or perhaps because she didn't feel quite herself (she had just been upset by news that her ex-husband was dying of cancer), she agreed.

The Siren afterward calmly asks:"How dare you allow people kill themselves at my door?"A little thing like a suicide is forgotten in a few minutes, and soon Isabella is quite herself again.

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She is, quite clearly, herself.

Kaplan seems never to have quite forgiven herself.

Buffy is on the comic's cover, looking quite like herself (ie quite like Gellar).

Also, she couldn't quite bring herself to leave the Herald.

She can't quite bring herself to see his name on the grave.

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