Sentence examples for things were exactly from inspiring English sources

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If it's not one thing, it's another.

When one thing goes wrong, then another, and another..

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Yet, elsewhere, as was the case with Mr. Poole's own office, things were exactly as they had been the day before.

These hearty, nobbly little things were exactly what I had in mind and are fantastic smeared with butter and jam or piled with cheese.

"I may be the only politician who found that things were exactly as bad as he said they were," Mr. Pattison now says, with regret.

"I can tell you I'd probably be a little offended if things were exactly modeled on some of the things that happened during Anaconda," Exum, now a fellow at the Center for a New American Security, told me.

Scoot's things were exactly as he'd left them sometime Saturday afternoon, and it wasn't like Scoot to stay over at the frat house on a Sunday night, or through Monday.

In the forties and fifties, when the most gifted defenders of humanism were counting up the "costs" of modernity — uncertainty, ambiguity, alienation — Popper was arguing that these things were exactly what allowed science to tell us plain truths and give us great gifts.

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Sometimes things are exactly what they seem.

Things are exactly the same now as they were then.

None of these things is exactly revolutionary, it must be said.

The way he does things is exactly how I would like to.

"I love things being exactly what they are," she said, putting the earrings away.

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