Sentence examples for not exactly helpful from inspiring English sources

"What we had learned in training courses was not exactly helpful," Francese says.

Here the staff members were profuse, though not exactly helpful; they had their hands full, really full, tending to ravaged piles.

In the circumstances, it was not exactly helpful of the head of the OECD to compare the crisis to the Ebola virus.

American households, for example, are shifting rapidly from borrowing to saving; this change in the United States during the last nine months has been particularly dramatic, and not exactly helpful to our consumer-dependent economy.

Most were not exactly helpful: "You could go that way, but I don't know if you'll make it across the ford …" (The key, it turned out, is to drive through the grounds of Fyling Hall school).

(Mr. Paul has also been quoted saying he believes Mr. Obama will be the next President — not exactly helpful for his fellow Republican. Mr. Paul's vote of confidence may not be that much of a boon to Mr. Obama either).

The plans weren't exactly helpful: there were no precise measurements, and he didn't understand many Italian terms.

So it wasn't exactly helpful when Novak said she'd prefer to wear any colour "except grey".

A public dispute between the president Martin Kind and naughty ultras, who had been hoisting up a banner displaying the face of the Hannover-born serial killer Fritz Haarmann (27 murders from 1918-24), wasn't exactly helpful either.

That sort of nonsense isn't exactly helpful, right?

But, since today's stressors are more often looming deadlines than savage beasts, a doughnut craving isn't exactly helpful.