Sentence examples for exactly the phrase from inspiring English sources

That was exactly the phrase used by the receivers coach, Todd Haley, who said today that Hayes had delighted everyone in minicamp with his talents.

"An expressionist nag," she calls herself, which is exactly the phrase used by one reviewer of Cleansed; but then she adds, in a typical Kane touch, "stalling between two fools".

Because that is exactly the phrase the junk food industry use to justify 'a little of what you like will do no harm'; that is, 'eat junk, snacks and soda whenever you want – and make us rich'".

So when the singer described her new record as her first "official pop album," you had to wonder what exactly the phrase meant.

They leave me for anywhere from two to seven hours in the room looping and going insane with myself, torturing over exactly the phrasing of the words and lyrics.

Yet in the expression without fail, they accept the noun fail exactly as the phrase describes.

Important maybe, but what exactly did the phrase "duck in a noose" mean?

Meanwhile, nobody seems quite sure exactly what the phrase means, beyond a general impression of the storage and analysis of unfathomable amounts of information, but we are assured, over and over, that it's going to be big.

"The Secret of Crickley Hall" is a three-hour BBC mini-series, based on a novel by the horror writer James Herbert, that delivers exactly what the phrase "British mini-series" promises for the American viewer: an old-fashioned story, ever so slightly dull but directed with a polish and restraint we're not used to and with convincing performances from top to bottom.

This three-hour presentation "delivers exactly what the phrase 'British mini-series' promises for the American viewer: an old-fashioned story, ever so slightly dull but directed with a polish and restraint we're not used to and with convincing performances from top to bottom," Mike Hale wrote in The New York Times.

Her first question was "What exactly does the phrase 'pre-meeting meeting' mean?" Her second question was "Where's your wife?" Her third question was "Why aren't we meeting at your office?" Her fourth question was "Why did you not want Tracy's agent here?" Paul's answers to these questions were syntactically complex.