Sentence examples for exactly a reason from inspiring English sources

That's not exactly a reason to stand up and cheer.

It sarcastically condoled with the Censor of St Catherine's for having to make a speech "which should pretend to show that a couple of massacres to a man's credit are not exactly a reason for not showing him honour".

As the youngest of three siblings, the arrival of April Fools' day was never exactly a reason to celebrate.

Have an attitude which says everything in life happens exactly for a reason and obviously for your best!

That's not exactly a solid reason to upgrade in and of itself, given that an Amazon Prime plan currently runs $119 a year, but the more premium plan offers 15GB of LTE data for its mobile hotspot versus 5GB.

Cult hits are exactly that for a reason.

Romantic duets, like one for Maria Kochetkova's Cinderella and Joan Boada's Prince Guillaume in the ballroom, fight for expansiveness, but travel back and forth in acrobatic lifts that don't exactly give the heart a reason to soar.

The campaign was not exactly a model of reasoned discourse.

But that we cannot say exactly what the rules are is no reason for saying no such rules exist, any more than our inability to say exactly what knowledge is provides a reason for saying that no one ever knows anything.

While some media attention was given to the event ahead of time, the tragic shooting by two gunmen on Sunday evening gave Geller and Spencer exactly what they wanted -- a reason to declare yet one more time a war against Islam.

"We have security measures in place for exactly this reason," said a spokesman, who refused to say how much the possible leak of secrets had cost the firm.