QUALITY in a Sentence

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For QUALITY, below is one of 350 sentences:
In a neighborhood where everyone said exactly what he thought as soon as he thought it, Ashley's quality of reserve was exasperating.

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 Meanings and Examples of QUALITY
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quality
 n.  a characteristic property that defines the apparent individual nature of something
 a.  of high social status
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  In a neighborhood where everyone said exactly what he thought as soon as he thought it, Ashley's quality of reserve was exasperating.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
2  There was a steely quality under her stately gentleness that awed the whole household, Gerald as well as the girls, though he would have died rather than admit it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
3  They were proud of the good names of their owners and, for the most part, proud to belong to people who were quality, while he was despised by all.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
4  She knew it was beneath the dignity of quality white folks to pay the slightest attention to what a darky said when she was just grumbling to herself.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
5  Even the excitement caused by the swooning spell that overtook Charles' plump emotional aunt, Miss Pittypat Hamilton, had the quality of a nightmare.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
6  Scarlett was not sure what an aeon was, but there was no mistaking the baiting quality of his voice, so she said nothing.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
7  He went on speaking and there was a quality in his voice, a sadness, a resignation, that increased her fear until every vestige of anger and disappointment was blotted out.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
8  She was less frightened also because life had taken on the quality of a dream, a dream too terrible to be real.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
9  It was the same intangible, unspectacular courage that all the Wilkeses possessed, a quality which Scarlett did not understand but to which she gave grudging tribute.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
10  Eventually all the family found their way to Will's room to air their troubles--even Mammy, who had at first been distant with him because he was not quality and had owned only two slaves.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
11  Not the smart folks nor the quality folks nor the rich folks.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
12  Mammy's smile at the front door was the smile reserved for quality folks, Pitty served him coffee laced with brandy and fluttered about him and Scarlett hung on his every utterance.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
13  She undersold him so relentlessly and delivered, with secret groans, such an excellent quality of lumber to prove her probity that he was soon bankrupt.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
14  There was nothing of quality folks about Cathleen now.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL
15  She shuddered, turning her eyes from Cathleen as she realized how narrow was the chasm between quality folk and poor whites.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL
Example Sentence: (140 in 10 pages)
16  Conduct regular checks on your water quality.
17  This hard-wearing material combines cost effectiveness with quality.
18  The management's preoccupation with costs and profits resulted in a drop in quality and customer service.
19  Our company has a commitment to quality and customer service.
20  When costs are cut product quality suffers.
21  Changes in design will ensure the quality and reliability of the printer.
22  The company enjoys a world-wide reputation for quality of design.
23  OBJECTIVE To evaluate the quality of astragaloside liposome and determine its entrapment efficiency.
24  We are preparing to hold a meeting to discuss problems respecting the quality of education.
25  This new model is of high quality and is not expensive either.
26  She has that star quality that makes its possessor the focus of attention.
27  The food was of such poor/low quality.
28  We have a huge stock of quality carpets on sale.
29  The most important quality for an investor is temperament, not intellect.
30  To improve the quality of life through work, two complementary strategies are necessary.