Sentence examples for be exacting from inspiring English sources

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be exacting

adjective

Precisely agreeing with a standard, a fact, or the truth; perfectly conforming; neither exceeding nor falling short in any respect.

  • The clock keeps exact time.

Exact(19)

The training has to be exacting.

Mozart was known to be exacting with librettists.

Public outrage over the affair ensured that the terms of all future sales would be exacting.

But the airy atmosphere belies students' intensity, and Mr. Nosan can be exacting.

And the department's very visibility may be exacting its own price.

Teller combines an openness to chance with a will to be exacting when it matters.

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His standards are exacting.

His precision is exacting.

McGarry is exacting.

The process is exacting.

"She is exacting.

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