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How To Use exactly In A Sentence

• If there was any hope of holding on to even a shred of her dwindling self-respect, she should do exactly what she knew Margo would do—close the laptop, take her de-scrunchied, perfumed, and nearly thonged self down to the nearest club, pick up the first passably good-looking stranger who asked her to dance, and bring him back to the apartment for some safe but anonymous sex. Goodnight Tweetheart
• Who is willing to believe that Alexandria is exactly 5000 stadia from Syene, whatever the value of the stadium?
• A lot of us are curious to know exactly what the navy has been told to do.
• Save for a worktable placed almost exactly in the center of the floor, I see only a few benches, some unlit rush lamps, a large set of scales, and a wooden crate, which I discover upon examination contains small crystal vials waiting to be filled. Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer
• Of course, Whitty himself ain’t exactly a peach; he loves him some torture, and buries knives in bellies with minimal provocation; when it comes to witch-hunting, he’s of the “burn her alive now, ask questions … well, don’t really bother asking questions, it’s just so damn fun to burn people, let’s do it some more!” school. Cry of the Banshee « Skid Roche
• And that is exactly why I say "intelligence" in the context of ID is a dormitive principle: Bunny and a Book
• This is exactly the kind of nitwittery that mikey is addicted to. BuzzFlash.net: published
• They need to pinpoint exactly what skills are necessary.
• The bowed zither may seem strange, but is exactly what it appears to be - a violin for zitherists.
• The "fruitily perfumed pineapple weed" that came to Britain from Oregon in the late 19th century and then began to spread throughout the countryside, Mr. Mabey says, "exactly tracked the adoption of the treaded motor tyre, to which its ribbed seeds clung" as if the treads were the soles of climbing boots. Stow the Mower, Stop Pulling