EXACTING in a Sentence

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343 example sentences for EXACTING, such as:

1. Ah, but you're being too exacting.
2. The train pulled out exactly on time.
3. They are not very exacting, after all.
4. His words had exactly the opposite effect.
5. Be assertive and spell out exactly how you feel.

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 Meanings and Examples of EXACTING
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
exacting
 a.  making severe demands; rigorous; requiring great care, effort, or attention
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  I grew impatient: a restless movement or two, and an eager and exacting glance fastened on his face, conveyed the feeling to him as effectually as words could have done, and with less trouble.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
2  I had learnt her whole character, which was without mystery or disguise: she was coquettish but not heartless; exacting, but not worthlessly selfish.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
3  He may be stern; he may be exacting; he may be ambitious yet; but his is the sternness of the warrior Greatheart, who guards his pilgrim convoy from the onslaught of Apollyon.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
4  But when Zenobia's doctor recommended her looking about for some one to help her with the house-work the clan instantly saw the chance of exacting a compensation from Mattie.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In III
5  None of them was good enough to satisfy the exacting requirements Rhett laid down.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER L
6  Because of her unusual business ability, he was stern and exacting with her.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: II
7  The schoolmaster, always severe, grew severer and more exacting than ever, for he wanted the school to make a good showing on "Examination" day.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
8  I am your only daughter, and you are not so exacting as the fathers of the Porte Saint-Martin and Gaiete, who disinherit their daughters for not giving them grandchildren.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 95. Father and Daughter.
9  I should be an inconvenience at Joe's; I was not expected, and my bed would not be ready; I should be too far from Miss Havisham's, and she was exacting and mightn't like it.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXVIII
10  In all operations on a large scale on this and his other estates, he kept to the simplest methods involving no risk, and in trifling details he was careful and exacting to an extreme degree.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 6: Chapter 25
11  Ah, but you're being too exacting.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 11
12  They are not very exacting, after all.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE COPPER BEECHES
13  Nothing is talked about here to-day except the strange coincidence; the officials of the Board of Trade have been most exacting in seeing that every compliance has been made with existing regulations.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
14  I find that the moment I let a woman make friends with me, she becomes jealous, exacting, suspicious, and a damned nuisance.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
Context  Highlight   In ACT II
15  'Besides, you are perhaps too exacting,' he said, bending his whole frame forward and playing with the fringe of the chair.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
Example Sentence: (133 in 9 pages)
16  We set out to determine exactly what happened that night.
17  We need a detailed investigation to determine exactly why these cancers are occurring.
18  The information at the centre will permit the board to determine exactly how close it is to achieving these change management objectives.
19  His words had exactly the opposite effect.
20  Few people knew exactly what the rebels planned to do.
21  He's not exactly thrilled at the prospect of working for his old rival.
22  The viola is exactly in counterpoint to the first violin.
23  They don't exactly overpay their work - force.
24  The birds peeped exactly as we refilled the feeder.
25  The train pulled out exactly on time.
26  There is no exactly equivalent French tense to the present perfect tense in English.
27  The doctor's instructions must be fulfilled exactly.
28  I was sorely tempted to say exactly what I thought of his offer.
29  An observant shop assistant had remembered exactly what the man was wearing.
30  Be assertive and spell out exactly how you feel.