Sentence examples for phrase exactly from inspiring English sources

Sometimes the style of referring to intimates is oddly stilted, seeming more appropriate to a public speech than any sort of private utterance: "Matthew (aged 9), who was sleeping in the twin bed during my wife's absence…" Referring to "Sundrin Dutta, the great Bengali writer" may be well-meant, but repeating the phrase exactly in a later entry makes it look as if you haven't actually read a word.

When asked, Currier and Chudnovsky don't really know how to phrase exactly what Ooga Labs is doing.

I try again, repeating the phrase exactly.

I don't know... '" -- repeating the phrase exactly 12 times with various intonations, as if trying to get it just right.

Someone had to write that phrase, exactly the way someone had to paint Mona Lisa's portrait or come up with the first chords of Beethoven's fifth symphony.

" You can choose to have Yahoo display search results that match your keyword phrase exactly, or have results displayed that omit a specific keyword.

The anecdote was evidently a familiar crowd-pleaser; here's another version of its telling, much of the phrasing exactly the same.

If you've ever interacted with a chatbot on a website, or gone through the automated menus on a customer service help line, you know that you usually have to stick to a very limited set of simple commands, phrased exactly right.

Other questions related to this might be about your attitude towards your current job, job performance, ability to work with others, skill sets, etc. Questions about your work ethic might not be phrased exactly as "describe your work ethic" or "What is your work ethic?".

For some the limit is a word or a phrase like "Exactly," "Yeah, right," or maybe even "I know what you mean".

Firstly, anyone who utters such a preposterous phrase is exactly the type of person who calls people 'guys.' The 'Man Up!' mob have probably never had a fight in their lives, yet desperately want to be seen as tough.