Sentence examples for exactly, yes from inspiring English sources

Gervais chooses "no," then has to add "exactly, yes" to indicate that he doesn't mean "No, Joy, you're wrong".

As the fair's opening day wore on, the mood wasn't exactly "yes we can" but more "maybe we just might".

He also agreed with the fake businessman's suggestion that he could pay £7,500 into his cousin's bank account so this could be then transferred to the party, saying "exactly yes".

Sarah Parish: Yes, exactly, yes.

GERVAIS: No, exactly, yes.

KIERAN SETIYA: Exactly, yes.

He had never said no, but he hadn't exactly said yes either.

"I don't know how much exactly but yes, he has definitely lost weight," says a spokesman when I call.

"No, totally". "No, definitely". "No, exactly". "No, yes". These curious uses turn "no" into a kind of contranym: a word that can function as its own opposite.

The lawyer played one recording of Mr. Hussain asking Mr. Cromitie that if God asked him to "go to the jihad, would you say, 'Allahu akbar'?" "He doesn't exactly say yes, but he doesn't exactly say no," Mr. Briccetti said.

Alexander Nix: Collect data through Facebook that is exactly right, yes.