Sentence examples for worked precisely from inspiring English sources

Thus far, the gimmick has worked precisely as intended.

He said the approach had worked precisely because "I never had a formal training and I am British".

He worked precisely with a fastball in the high 80-mile-per-hour range and a breaking ball that flirted with the mid-60s.

My only solace was that the system worked precisely as it should: the mammogram caught my tumor early, and I was treated with a lumpectomy and six weeks of radiation; I was going to survive.

Furthermore, the approach only worked precisely because the Real IRA sought, through its name, to associate itself with the history of the IRA "as it existed in 1939" and before.

And the first run has worked precisely to script, the party's left faction out in horror at the latest policy atrocity, the Labor leader Bill Shorten trying to sound like he's saying no while leaving himself room to say yes.

In many cases, government expenditures work precisely the opposite way.

"The timing didn't work precisely right," she said.

In the case of the peacock, the tail works precisely because it cannot be faked.

The CMD40B-1 WRemoteemote ($117), for example, works precisely like a universal remote control from, say, Radio Shack.

The comedian's critics say that the Dieudonné M'bala M'bala phenomenon – and he is a phenomenon – works precisely the other way around.