How to Use exacting in a Sentence

exacting

adjective

• He has very exacting standards.
• Khan said, could be deemed to meet the clause’s exacting standards.
  — Omar Waraich, The Atlantic, 28 July 2017
• Dropcloths were scattered about, as if in the home of an exacting man with work to be done.
  — Jeffrey Fleishman, latimes.com, 6 July 2018
• The teams last faced off in the 2015 state semifinals, with St. Thomas Aquinas exacting revenge on the Scots.
  — Wells Dusenbury, Sun-Sentinel.com, 2 May 2018
• Some fans praised Colley in the wake of the error; others held him to a more exacting standard.
  — Joan Niesen, SI.com, 11 July 2018
• In some small way, exacting revenge on an in-city rival seemed to suggest that might be the case.
  — Andrew Turner, Daily Pilot, 3 Sep. 2019
• But over the past decade or so, the processes have become much more exacting.
  — Samanth Subramanian, Quartz, 9 Apr. 2021
• At 62, Galás is a feast for the senses, on stage and on record, and her panoramic range seems to have grown coarser yet more exacting with age.
  — James Reed, latimes.com, 27 Apr. 2018
• Black singers are examined under a more exacting lens than white ones in the same role.
  — Washington Post, 17 Oct. 2019
• Weil held an exacting view of the philosopher’s mandate.
  — Robert Zaretsky, WSJ, 3 Sep. 2022
• In the exacting world of train schedules, that’s a significant amount of time.
  — Martine Powers, Washington Post, 20 June 2017
• Each pair is made by hand in Switzerland to exacting standards—evident in the way the tiny tool offers a firm and sure grip.
  — Michael Hsu, WSJ, 22 Sep. 2017
• But what better time to attempt a messy, exacting project?
  — Anna Thomas Bates, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 26 Mar. 2020
• Stevens’ exacting standards have led to the Celtics leading the league in defensive rating for most of the season.
  — Dakota Crawford, Indianapolis Star, 2 Apr. 2018
• Mearns, Peck told me, is one of the strongest and most exacting dancers in the company, and Ramasar one of the few men who can comfortably match her.
  — Sasha Weiss, New York Times, 10 May 2018
• Then there are those that cater to the crazily exacting needs of busy, busy, busy, cost-is-no-object Miranda Priestlys.
  — Carl Swanson, The Cut, 16 May 2018
• He was also known to be an exacting boss, even a violent one.
  — The Economist, 11 June 2020
• But their simplicity didn’t make them—or the artist’s process—any less exacting.
  — Camille Okhio, ELLE Decor, 26 May 2023
• The Masters Tournament is run by the club to exacting standards.
  — Gary D'amato, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 4 Apr. 2018
• The older ones were also more literal and exacting about how closely the play followed the books.
  — New York Times, 24 May 2018
• The rennet addition is so exacting that Beecher’s uses a scale measuring to the tenth of a gram.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 3 Dec. 2018
• With the press, Cuomo has a reputation for being both exacting and adept.
  — Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2020
• If nothing else, one thing is clear: The game belongs to the hosts now, and the season 1 finale was just a preview of Dolores exacting revenge on her makers.
  — Ashley Hoffman, Time, 5 Feb. 2018
• The owner, Fredrick Sennie, makes everything fresh, to his exacting standards, in the compact kitchen.
  — Kailyn Brown, Los Angeles Times, 23 Aug. 2019
• There is no better test of those skills than playoff basketball, and no more exacting proctor than the Warriors.
  — Rob Mahoney, SI.com, 18 May 2018
• As its moniker implies, this piece is in the exacting Swiss style of Hofmann and depicts an assortment of Herman Miller’s famous chairs.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 25 Oct. 2021
• That creates more surface area to absorb those exacting blows.
  — Joel Sartore, National Geographic, 5 Nov. 2016
• And his exacting roasting system is a bar to beat, pushing both science and art in the name of an uncompromising cup.
  — Jeff Csatari, Popular Mechanics, 5 Dec. 2019
• Laura Elliott, in the exacting assignment of Granger's shrewdish young wife, is brilliant.
  — Thr Staff, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 June 2017
• Helbers’s clothes are an exacting and very special achievement.
  — Rachel Tashjian, Washington Post, 12 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 17 Nov 2024