ACCURATE in a Sentence

Learn ACCURATE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
88 example sentences for ACCURATE, such as:
1. This book is generally accurate.
2. A child's recall is usually accurate.
3. She gave an accurate account of the case.
4. You are a most accurate and honest reckoner.
5. Long and accurate fringes of smoke spread out.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of ACCURATE
accurate
 a.  (of ideas, images, representations, expressions) characterized by perfect conformity to fact or truth ; strictly correct
 a.  conforming exactly or almost exactly to fact or to a standard or performing with total accuracy
Classic Sentence: (47 in 4 pages)
1  She tried not to smile at his accurate summing up of her conduct but she could not help dimpling.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
2  That was as accurate a summing up of the situation as could be made and Scarlett relapsed into infuriated silence.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
3  But it may be fancied, that from the naked skeleton of the stranded whale, accurate hints may be derived touching his true form.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 55. Of the Monstrous Pictures of Whales.
4  He had actually gained the crags, and was leaping up their sides with incredible activity, when a shot from the woods showed how accurate had been the judgment of the scout.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 31
5  I have no accurate knowledge of my age, never having seen any authentic record containing it.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
6  The people were afar and he did not conceive public opinion to be accurate at long range.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
7  Long and accurate fringes of smoke spread out.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19
8  Its somewhat ambitious title was "The Book of Life," and it attempted to show how much an observant man might learn by an accurate and systematic examination of all that came in his way.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
9  I availed myself of your obliging hints to correct my timidity, and it is unnecessary to add that they were perfectly accurate.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII
10  You are a most accurate and honest reckoner.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
11  The elderly female was a woman of wisdom and experience; she knew what was good for children; and she had a very accurate perception of what was good for herself.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
12  I should like an accurate description of him and any letters of his which you can spare.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In III. A CASE OF IDENTITY
13  Again, you will observe that the words are not gummed on in an accurate line, but that some are much higher than others.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4. Sir Henry Baskerville
14  It was his specialty to be accurate as to fact, but his recent illness had shaken him, and this one little incident was enough to show me that he was still far from being himself.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VII. The Adventure of The Reigate Squires
15  Van Helsing sits in my study poring over the record prepared by the Harkers; he seems to think that by accurate knowledge of all details he will light upon some clue.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
Example Sentence: (41 in 3 pages)
1  She gave an accurate account of the case.
2  His account of what happened is substantially accurate.
3  Modern missiles are so accurate because their flight is controlled by computer.
4  The police are trying to obtain a more accurate picture of crime levels.
5  The model of the village is accurate down to the last detail.
6  The brochure tries to give a fair and accurate description of each hotel.
7  We'll need accurate costings before we can agree to fund the scheme.
8  This book is generally accurate.
9  The figures they have used are just not accurate.
10  This method is more fallible than most because it depends on careful and accurate timing.
11  The accuracy of equivalent circuit method can be effectively improved if the calculation of PM leakage permeance is accurate.
12  A child's recall is usually accurate.
13  To remove any ambiguity we have to acquire more accurate information.
14  This report offered the most specific and accurate description of the problems.
15  It's impossible to be accurate about these things.