How to Use exactly in a Sentence

exactly

adverb

• The levers need to be exactly positioned.
• The family knows his heart stopped but still doesn't know exactly why.
  — Angelo Fichera, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Feb. 2023
• The family knows his heart stopped but still doesn’t know exactly why.
  — Angelo Fichera, Fortune, 4 Feb. 2023
• His steady presence is exactly what Butler needs when things start to break down.
  — Akeem Glaspie, The Indianapolis Star, 20 Feb. 2023
• Basic ones, about what exactly happened to Rider and why.
  — Michelle Theriault Boots, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Feb. 2023
• Reese Witherspoon knows exactly what a kid's meltdown looks like — thanks to her own three children.
  — Emma Aerin Becker, People.com, 29 Nov. 2024
• Suppliers will often set up shop nearby, given the need to deliver parts just in time and exactly in the sequence they are needed on the assembly line.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune, 29 Nov. 2024
• No one knows exactly why hypertensive disorders have doubled in prevalence in the past three decades, but women are having children at older ages than in the past.
  — Roni Caryn Rabin, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2023
• Long after the bodies are released to family members, toxicologists do the work of figuring out exactly what killed them.
  — Sharon Otterman, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2023
• So, what exactly is the relationship status between Kendall and Bad Bunny?
  — Leah Campano, Seventeen, 21 Feb. 2023
• This is also a population-level study, so there is no way to pinpoint exactly why people exposed to these kinds of air pollutions would have a higher risk of depression.
  — Jen Christensen, CNN, 10 Feb. 2023
• That and the look's technical simplicity is exactly why nail artist Sigourney Nuñez thinks this trend is about to soar in popularity.
  — Kara Nesvig, Allure, 2 Feb. 2023
• By navigating to their analytics page, creators will be able to see exactly why their video is ineligible and can appeal that decision.
  — Taylor Lorenz, Washington Post, 2 Feb. 2023
• Lipton exactly titrates condescension and concern as the front man for a robot quartet performing to a humanity that mistrusts its own machines.
  — The New Yorker, 29 Nov. 2024
• Azzi Fudd also had a breakthrough that earned her all-tournament honors, logging her highest scoring performance in exactly two years with 18 points.
  — Emily Adams, Hartford Courant, 28 Nov. 2024
• Vivo is being annoyingly vague about exactly when the phones will actually be available to buy outside China, however.
  — Jon Porter, The Verge, 3 Feb. 2023
• That's exactly what the guys did as soon as Tran left the room.
  — Hannah Kirby, Journal Sentinel, 6 Aug. 2024
• That’s exactly what Ellie and Zach bring to the bake-off in the U.S.
  — Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 14 May 2023
• For the past 35 years, that’s exactly what Robb Report has done, with its Best of the Best awards.
  — Paul Croughton, Robb Report, 18 June 2023
• How, exactly, would Lashley and the rest of The Hurt Business fit in?
  — Blake Oestriecher, Forbes, 12 Sep. 2024
• The skewer is exactly as the name suggests: three munchkins on a stick.
  — Sabrina Weiss, Peoplemag, 20 Feb. 2024
• However, with a record of 48-32, that's exactly where the team stands.
  — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 29 June 2023
• For the most part, no two letters are rendered in exactly the same way.
  — Benj Edwards, Ars Technica, 12 Sep. 2024
• The film is exactly 3 hours long and is about the creation of the atomic bomb through the Manhattan Project.
  — Dina Kaur, The Arizona Republic, 21 July 2023
• What's even more special is that the phase was exactly π.
  — Charles D. Brown Ii, Scientific American, 16 May 2023
• That’s exactly the kind of review a PR team’s hoping to bury.
  — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 6 Nov. 2024
• So, why exactly will the duchess and the Sussex kids miss the coronation?
  — Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 13 Apr. 2023
• Your Foot Type No two feet are exactly the same (even your own).
  — Samson McDougall, Health, 4 Aug. 2023
• Here’s exactly how to keep your heart safe as the colder season creeps in.
  — Erica Sweeney, SELF, 30 Oct. 2023
• Which towns and cities, exactly, have been sacked and plundered?
  — Paul Krugman, The Mercury News, 13 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024