EXACT in a Sentence

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343 example sentences for EXACT, such as:

1. I can't remember her exact words.
2. Forecasting floods is not an exact science.
3. Predicting the weather is not an exact science.
4. Her second husband was the exact opposite of her first.
5. The ship is an exact replica of the original Golden Hind.

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 Meanings and Examples of EXACT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
exact
 a.  precisely agreeing with standard, fact, or truth
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  It protected her from reproof, and it left no doubt in anyone's mind as to her exact views on any subject.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
2  She hardly heard what he was saying, for now there was coming back to her the exact memory which had teased her a few minutes before when he first began speaking.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIII
3  The first thousand dollar cheque which Lily received with a blotted scrawl from Gus Trenor strengthened her self-confidence in the exact degree to which it effaced her debts.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 8
4  Lily was acutely aware of her own part in this drama of innuendo: she knew the exact quality of the amusement the situation evoked.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 9
5  She had, to a shade, the exact manner between victory and defeat: every insinuation was shed without an effort by the bright indifference of her manner.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 9
6  Grace, in reply, wept and wondered at the request, bemoaned the inexorableness of the law, and was astonished that Lily had not realized the exact similarity of their positions.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 4
7  She bought a budget-plan account book and made her budgets as exact as budgets are likely to be when they lack budgets.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
8  It was salvation to push the heavy tables, to scrub them, to be exact in placing the sheet.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
9  They were determining the exact psychology of Dave Dyer in standing pat, two hours before.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
10  She also, with an air of being only too scrupulously exact, granted that sometimes he did not come home till morning.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
11  His own person was the exact embodiment of his utilitarian character.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 16. The Ship.
12  Those books are Beale's and Bennett's; both in their time surgeons to English South-Sea whale-ships, and both exact and reliable men.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 32. Cetology.
13  Dough-Boy hurried below, glanced at the watch, and reported the exact minute to Ahab.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 47. The Mat-Maker.
14  It would be pleasant to record that he swore off drinking immediately, and all the rest of his bad habits with it; but that would hardly be exact.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 30
15  We men of the world must wink pretty hard at various things, and get used to a deal that isn't the exact thing.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
Example Sentence: (133 in 9 pages)
16  To draw up someone's horoscope, you need to know their date and exact time of birth.
17  It is difficult to quantify an exact figure as firms are reluctant to declare their losses.
18  Her second husband was the exact opposite of her first.
19  The government continues to fudge the issue by refusing to give exact figures.
20  It is important to measure the exact dimensions of the room.
21  I stumbled across an extremely simple but very exact method for understanding where my money went.
22  The ship is an exact replica of the original Golden Hind.
23  He started to phone me at the exact moment I started to phone him.
24  Nobody present could give the exact figures of increase in production offhand.
25  There were court musicians whose exact relation to the family or to any royal court was predictably fuzzy.
26  I'm not sure of the exact relationship between them-I think they're cousins.
27  I can't remember her exact words.
28  The parties would not reveal the exact nature of the dispute.
29  Forecasting floods is not an exact science.
30  Predicting the weather is not an exact science.