Exact

//ɪɡˈzækt//

"Exact" in a Sentence (27 examples)

Life is not an exact science, it is an art.

Scholarship must always be exact whether it is interesting or not.

I'd like to know the exact exchange rate for yen.

Tell me the more exact time.

I can't recall the exact words.

Exact change, please.

I know the exact time when that happened.

I can't get at the exact meaning of the sentence.

Will you please explain to me the exact meaning of the word?

Where a painting's general sense seems clear, moreover, the exact decoding of its content remains in doubt.

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The clock keeps exact time.

He paid the exact debt.

an exact copy of a letter

exact accounts

a man exact in observing an appointment

In my doings I was exact.

I see thou art exact of taste.

During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant[…]

An exact command, Larded with many several sorts of reason.

to exact tribute, fees, or obedience from someone

He said into them, Exact no more than that which is appointed you.

Their goal is retributive: to exact a price from Palestinian civilians (and in some cases left-wing Israeli Jews, Christians, and Israeli security forces) for actions Israeli authorities take against the settlers, usually building enforcement in illegally built settlements.

She was a superb judge who gave her best and exacted the best from each of us, whether in agreement or disagreement.

[…] a generic, strikingly universal, deity, “ha-elohim,” who tests, who exacts and extracts, and who is the object of fear […]

I vvait, Madam, / To knovv vvhat your commands are; my deſignes / Exact me in another place.

to exact revenge on someone

She's wearing the exact same sweater as I am!

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