Sentence examples for was quit from inspiring English sources

The phrase 'was quit' is not correct in written English
The phrase you may be thinking of is "was quiet", which means "to make no noise." For example, "The room was quiet when I entered."

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I went away and wrote". That sentence doesn't quite do justice to what Pizzolatto did next – which was quit DePauw, move his young family to Los Angeles, and start churning out scripts like a man possessed.

That sentence doesn't quite do justice to what Pizzolatto did next – which was quit DePauw, move his young family to Los Angeles, and start churning out scripts like a man possessed.

The wife said of her husband: "What he would like to do was quit, but I told him he couldn't.

'I shed a lot of silent tears... at times, all I wanted to do was quit and be with my baby,' she has said.

What Mr. Hejtmanek did was quit a high-paying job at BackWeb Technologies to create a wireless software company called Enterprise Air.

Having returned to his career as a substance abuse counsellor, Fennell says the worst thing he ever did was quit his day job to become a full-time musician back in 1993.

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Soon she was quitting more than cheerleading.

HAMPTON, Iowa — It was quitting time.

Was quitting smoking not good enough?

I told my sponsors I was quitting," she laughs.

Yesterday, he announced that he was quitting.

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