EXACT in a Sentence

Learn EXACT 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.
343 example sentences for EXACT, such as:
1. It was difficult to tell his exact age.
2. The exact date of the event has escaped me.
3. It has taken until now to pin down its exact location.
4. The exact ingredients of Coca Cola are a trade secret.
5. It's difficult to define the exact nature of the problem.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of EXACT
exact
 v.  take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs
 a.  (of ideas, images, representations, expressions) characterized by perfect conformity to fact or truth ; strictly correct
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
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)
1  The doctor was able to treat the disease although he could not put his finger on the exact cause.
2  It was difficult to tell his exact age.
3  It is important to follow out the exact words of agreement.
4  The doctor was able to treat the disease although he could not lay his finger on the exact cause.
5  Billionaires are usually fairly secretive about the exact amount that they're worth.
6  The exact ingredients of Coca Cola are a trade secret.
7  It has taken until now to pin down its exact location.
8  There is disagreement within the government over the exact timing of the referendum.
9  Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.
10  Reading make a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.
11  Reading makes a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.
12  The exact date of the event has escaped me.
13  It's difficult to define the exact nature of the problem.
14  Instead, the Cut / Copy Rectangle command used the exact position of the cursor to define the vertical section of text.
15  It is difficult to determine the exact cause of the illness.