Use the word exactly in a sentence

Used with adjectives:

«These two items are exactly alike.«
(alike, equal, equivalent, identical, the same)

«Draw two lines that are exactly parallel.«
(parallel)

«I’m not sure that’s exactly right.«
(right, correct)

Used with verbs:

«I need to exactly duplicate the original.«
(duplicate, copy, reproduce, mimic)

«She couldn’t exactly explain what she meant.«
(explain, describe, clarify, express, specify, state)

«How do you exactly spell that?«
(spell, define)

«She has to exactly calculate the results.«
(calculate, measure)

«I can’t exactly remember its location.«
(remember, pinpoint, find)

Last Updated:
1 Apr 2023
— Updated example sentences

Sentences starting with exactly

• Exactly opposite Weyrother, with his glistening wide-open eyes fixed upon him and his mustache twisted upwards, sat the ruddy Miloradovich in a military pose, his elbows turned outwards, his hands on his knees, and his shoulders raised. [2]
• Exactly as if these blood-hounds were tragic actors of which one could best produce his effects by fire and pathos, and the other by the subtlety of his conception. [10]
• Exactly one-half of the second page is occupied with an opera criticism, fifty-three lines (three of them being headlines), and «Death Notices,» ten lines. [5]
• Exactly how long he had been absent he could not have said,—perhaps a quarter of an hour, perhaps longer; the time appeared short to him, wearied with long sitting and watching. [6]
• Exactly at the end of the hour the lecture stopped. [6]
• Exactly as it began before—with that same tedious thing which had been settled once, after so much wrangling. [5]
• Exactly the same as in Myrtilus’s statue, and thousands of other figures of Demeter! [10]

Sentences ending with exactly

• Ah, I also wanted to ask you where our position is exactly? [2]
• She never seemed to rise to suit him exactly. [5]
• I don’t seem to like him exactly. [6]
• So with other things,—I shifted them round, and got a set of characters who, taken together, reproduced the chief persons of the village where I lived, but did not copy any individual exactly. [6]
• If I had the strength, and should take the time, I should not get to Washington until after the inauguration, which you must be aware would not fit exactly. [7]
• Certainly, that was the case exactly! [10]
• He could not say exactly. [5]
• The hairless patches on a scalded dog are preferred by the fleas of Constantinople to a wider range on a healthier dog; and the exposed places suit the fleas exactly. [5]
• By the argument of counsel it was shown that at half past ten in the morning on the day of the murder, Baldwin became insane, and remained so for eleven hours and a half exactly. [5]
• Yet looking like none of these, exactly. [5]

Short sentences using exactly

• He was the Leather-Stocking exactly. [4]
• How far exactly is it? [11]
• That was my fix exactly. [5]
• And you know exactly? [10]
• Tell me exactly everything. [11]
• It isn’t exactly a compliment. [9]
• That’s it, exactly. [6]
• That’s it exactly. [5]
• Not exactly—not exactly. [5]
• Not exactly, . [4]

Sentences containing exactly two or more times

• The statement in the text concerning a portion of the materia medica stands exactly as delivered, and is meant exactly as it stands. [6]
• Then when you see him again you must have that letter opened at exactly the right moment, and—oh, I wonder if you will do it exactly right! [11]
• You get a great deal for your money, in variety and quantity; but you don’t exactly know what it is: and in time you tire of odds and ends, which destroy your hunger without exactly satisfying you. [4]
• Sometimes if you do exactly what’s right, you hurt some one you don’t wish to hurt, and if you don’t do exactly what’s right, perhaps that some one else hurts you. [11]
• When crushed, sage brush emits an odor which isn’t exactly magnolia and equally isn’t exactly polecat but is a sort of compromise between the two. [5]

More example sentences with the word exactly in them

• There was another young lady who taught French, of the ahvaung and baundahng style, which does not exactly smack of the asphalt of the Boulevards. [6]
• I swear to you, Sir, I believe that these two centres of civilization are just exactly the two points that close the circuit in the battery of our planetary intelligence! [6]
• He exactly suits you, and we congratulate you upon it. [7]
• Do exactly as you please with the land—always remember this—that so trivial a percentage as ten per cent will never sell it. [5]
• Had the lady you mean a large semi-circular scar just under the hair, exactly in the middle of her forehead? [10]
• I can’t tell you exactly, but I can make a guess—though he’s published no account of his recent experiments. [9]
• I could tell you exactly what the difficulty is;—which would be as intelligible and amusing as a watchmaker’s description of a diseased timekeeper to a ploughman. [6]
• Charles Francis Adams wrote, «It attracted my attention because it so exactly expresses the views I have myself all along entertained. [5]
• But the boat would float on, and the boulder descend again, and then we could see that when we had been exactly above it, it must still have been twenty or thirty feet below the surface. [5]
• Mr. Isaac D. Worthington stood erect beside the table, his hand thrust into the opening of his coat, and spoke at the rate of one hundred and eight words a minute, for exactly one hour. [9]
• This beautiful miniature world had exactly the appearance of those «relief maps» which reproduce nature precisely, with the heights and depressions and other details graduated to a reduced scale, and with the rocks, trees, lakes, etc., colored after nature. [5]
• It isn’t the ‘work exactly, but the oversight, the details; and the fact is that I want somebody near me whom I can trust, whether I’m here or whether I’m away. [4]
• He could do with her exactly as he pleased, run her when and whither he chose, and tie her up to the bank whenever his judgment said that that course was best. [5]
• I understood exactly why he told me Boyd Madras’s story: it was a warning. [11]
• I don’t know whether the last words exactly pleased me. [6]
• I asked her whether she had ever taken opium, as the description given of its effects in «Villette» was so exactly like what I had experienced,—vivid and exaggerated presence of objects, of which the outlines were indistinct, or lost in golden mist , etc. [14]
• This shows exactly where we now are; and partially, also, wither we are tending. [7]
• We know exactly where to put our finger upon his insanity; it is where his opinion differs from ours. [5]
• We know exactly where to put our finger upon his insanity: it is where his opinion differs from ours. [5]
• We know exactly where the blind spot of the eye is situated, and can demonstrate it anatomically and physiologically. [6]
• Nobody knew exactly where it was, but there was no doubt that it had been inhabited. [4]
• It was only when she had entered a cab in the Strand that she realized exactly what the music was. [11]
• He isn’t exactly what you’d call orthodox. [9]
• That ‘s exactly what you want in religion. [6]
• I knew exactly what would happen if I tried to build a fire. [4]
• I know exactly what to say, and we mustn’t make any mistake. [11]
• That is exactly what the other young man is. [6]
• That is exactly what I wanted—precisely what I wanted—when I was describing to myself Joan of Arc, after studying her history and her character for twelve years diligently. [5]
• She knows exactly what I am in health and prospects; so why shouldn’t I? [11]
• She grasped exactly what he would say, and made him say things he would never have thought of saying to any one else. [11]
• He did exactly what he chose, and compelled other men to do it. [9]
• That is exactly what had happened. [11]
• It may be well first to premise that I do not wish to maintain that any strictly social animal, if its intellectual faculties were to become as active and as highly developed as in man, would acquire exactly the same moral sense as ours. [1]
• Under that enchantment we had forgotten the object for which we came out.—Tell me, my darling, do you remember exactly what the necklace was like that you and Mary were playing with this afternoon? [10]
• I don’t think we got lost exactly, but we wandered four hours over the steepest, rockiest and most dangerous piece of country in the world. [5]
• She had a way of carrying her head, of throwing it back at times, that was not exactly imperious, and conveyed the impression of spirit rather than of mere vivacity. [4]
• Once our mother was present, though the cause of her coming was not exactly a joyous one. [10]
• Only it still was not the sea at all; but the little chopping waves looked like flecked clouds; and it was exactly as if one of the violet, cloud-beautified skies that we see at home over some sunsets had fallen to the ground. [4]
• And yet it was not exactly the same. [4]
• If Mrs. Armour was not exactly sympathetic with her, she was quiet and forbearing, and General Armour, like Richard, tried to draw her out—but not on the same subjects. [11]
• But the Widow was not exactly mansion-house-bred, and so thought it necessary to give the Reverend Doctor a peculiar look which he understood at once as inviting his professional services. [6]
• A pious seer was charged to tell him more exactly what this was; and he would meet him if he went at about sunset to the shrine of Isis, and called three times on the name of Severus before the altar of the goddess. [10]
• Plainly enough now,—it was an exactly fitted niche, for the Dred Scott decision to afterward come in, and declare the perfect freedom of the people to be just no freedom at all. [7]
• I expect I was a precocious youth, and wasn’t exactly the kind for Sunday-school prizes. [11]
• Jo says you want to go to Canada within a month or six weeks—I forget just exactly what he did say; but he intimated the trip could be delayed a while, if necessary. [5]
• The more common version of the trouble at the mansion-house was this: Elsie was not exactly in her right mind. [6]
• His Majesty usually uttered exactly the opposite of his real opinions, and therefore, in the outline of his abdication speech, he twice emphasized how great a debt of gratitude Don Philip owed him for the Heritage which while still alive he bequeathed to him. [10]
• I hold myself under constitutional obligations to allow the people in all the States, without interference, direct or indirect, to do exactly as they please; and I deny that I have any inclination to interfere with them, even if there were no such constitutional obligation. [7]
• The sentence of twelve lines, commencing at the top of page 252, I could wish to be not exactly what it is. [7]
• It was so, too—and yet he would have photographed exactly as he would have done any day these past 7 years that he has occupied this farm. [5]
• Just as exactly, too; for the correctness and propriety with which these terms are introduced have compelled the admiration of a Chief Justice and a Lord Chancellor. [5]
• When it comes to that, the best man, not exactly in the moral sense, but rather in the material, and more especially the muscular point of view, is very apt to have the best of it, irrespectively of the merits of the case. [6]
• She was able to tell him exactly how the House would vote. [5]
• It is difficult to say exactly what was the sin of stealing that kind of pie, especially if the one who stole it ate it. [4]
• It is difficult to say exactly how culture can extend its influence into places uncongenial and to people indifferent to it, but I will try and illustrate what I mean by an example or two. [4]
• When he came to know exactly what it meant, and acted, it was too late. [11]
• Berg drove up to his father-in-law’s house in his spruce little trap with a pair of sleek roans, exactly like those of a certain prince. [2]
• Suddenly it occurred to her with a shock that she was doing exactly what she had despised Lise for doing, and leaving the mirror she hurried her toilet, put out the light, and got into bed. [9]
• Then Duncan wanted to git out again, but ‘twan’t exactly convenient. [9]
• Stanton naturally failed to find it, and it remained for the writer of these notes, motoring up the Rhone one September day, exactly twenty-two years after the first discovery, to re-locate the vast reclining figure of the first consul of France, «dreaming of Universal Empire. [5]
• He was unable to decide exactly what it should be. [5]
• It turned out to be exactly what the emergency required. [7]
• It was scarcely to be doubted that Heinz Schorlin was fired with ardent love for Eva; but, for that very reason, he would be ready to yield her obedience, and therefore it was advisable to tell her exactly to what she must persuade him. [10]
• What it is to be acclimated to western fevers no two persons exactly agree. [5]
• All I desired to ask Mr. Bixby was the simple question whether he was ass enough to really imagine he was going to find that plantation on a night when all plantations were exactly alike and all the same color. [5]
• Mr. Spencer comes to an exactly opposite conclusion to that at which I have arrived. [1]
• Well then, farewell till we meet again on my boat; it is called the Euphrosyne, and lies out there, exactly opposite the two statues of the old king—who can remember these stiff barbarian names? [10]
• The connection between thought and electricity has not been exactly determined, but the cat is mentally very alert in certain conditions of the atmosphere. [4]
• His terrier, as though realizing exactly what he wished, seemed to guide him by rubbing against his legs, and even pressing hard against them when he was in any danger of losing the middle of the road, or swerving towards a ditch or some obstruction. [11]
• I feared that those people would merely comprehend that their courtesies were not wanted, and yet not know exactly why they were not wanted. [5]
• He did it this time, and it was up to standard: dainty, happy, choicely phrased, and as good to listen to as music, and sounding exactly as if it was pouring unprepared out of heart and brain. [5]
• Eight quires, like this sample, gilt-edged… it must be exactly like the sample. [2]
• I remember to this day the colored wax statue which represented Pertinax so exactly that it might have been himself risen from the grave. [10]
• No one at this day can reasonably conceive exactly what this newspaper was to such a mountain valley as Keene. [4]
• He would do this always exactly in this way; he never was content to stay in the chamber if we compelled him to go upstairs and through the door. [4]
• A thousand of these sheets have been made, all exactly like this, in every minute detail—they can’t be told apart. [5]
• The portmanteau behind the young master’s saddle isn’t exactly even. [10]
• I have counted the words in MacAlister’s drivel (I certainly cannot call it a speech), and there were exactly three thousand four hundred and thirty-nine. [5]
• That is exactly the word I want—«extracted. [5]
• It is exactly the white of the icing of a cake, and has the same unemphasized and scarcely perceptible polish. [5]
• The ruffian whom the waiter at the inn on the bridge saw ‘about to join’ the youth and the King did not exactly join them, but fell in close behind them and followed their steps. [5]
• One may say the type of practical joker, for these people are exactly alike all over the world. [5]
• It was exactly the story to appeal to Mark Twain, and the kind of thing he could write. [5]
• I went near the stable where he lived, and shouted to him in my old manner; he shewed no joy, but instantly followed me out walking, and obeyed me, exactly as if I had parted with him only half an hour before. [1]
• It was exactly the sort of letter an author likes to receive, critical, perfectly impartial, and with entire understanding of his purpose. [4]
• There is not the same lump exactly, yet something a little like it. [5]
• Well done, exactly the same as my own observations—but here—stay—here comes the third hour, at the beginning of which I was interrupted. [10]
• When she re-entered the room, she found its inmates exactly as she had left them. [12]
• His claim upon the public is exactly that of any manufacturer or dealer. [4]
• The standard of the Poems and of the plague-spot-and-bacilli effort is exactly the same. [5]
• Now Osgood is the only man in America, who can lay out your course for you and tell you exactly what to do. [5]
• It isn’t exactly the old Puritan fatalism, or even the Greek, it’s oddly modern, too, almost agnostic, I should say,—a calm acceptance of the hazards of life, of nature, of sun and rain and storm alike—very different from the cheap optimism one finds everywhere now. [9]
• It came above the horizon exactly as we began our journey, a harvest-moon, round and red. [4]
• The priest took the handsome lad by the chin, bent his head back, looked Adam also in the face, and exclaimed: «His mouth, nose and eyes he has inherited from your wife, but the shape of the brow and head is exactly like yours. [10]
• I saw that the gorilla while not looking distinctly like me was exactly what my great grand father would have looked like if I had had one. [5]
• That exactly suits the Glippers’ faces. [10]
• Patience confessed that the getting exactly right of the Great Dipper had caused her most trouble. [4]
• She had exactly the German way; whatever was in her mind to be delivered, whether a mere remark, or a sermon, or a cyclopedia, or the history of a war, she would get it into a single sentence or die. [5]
• It was exactly the favor which he had done me, about a quarter of a century before, in that same spot, the first time I ever steamed out of the port of New Orleans. [5]
• I could see the dim blur of the windows, but in my turned-around condition they were exactly where they ought not to be, and so they only confused me instead of helping me. [5]

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