How to Use imprecise in a Sentence

imprecise

adjective

• It's an imprecise translation of the original sentence.
• For humans, the sense of smell is a crude and imprecise tool.
  — Jack Gedney, The Mercury News, 11 Mar. 2024
• The hosts made the most of the ball possession but were too imprecise with the final ball.
  — SI.com, 13 Dec. 2017
• The technique was imprecise, and so were the schedules.
  — Jason Laughlin, Philly.com, 3 Nov. 2017
• This is an imprecise way to assess the impact of trade deals on drug prices.
  — Amy Kapczynski, Foreign Affairs, 28 Oct. 2016
• In Chatwood, the Dodgers faced one of the most imprecise pitchers in baseball.
  — Andy McCullough, latimes.com, 20 June 2018
• The claim is too broad, too vague, too imprecise to be meaningful.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2020
• In other words, the camera is looking with the imprecise eye of a doodle.
  — James Vincent, The Verge, 6 July 2018
• But these labels are clumsy and imprecise—and getting more so all the time.
  — Joe Pinsker, The Atlantic, 14 Oct. 2021
• The linkage is stiff and imprecise and undergoes as many jerks and seizures between throws as Mark Fidrych.
  — John Phillips, Car and Driver, 8 Aug. 2023
• For many people, dealing with a dropper or a vape pen for CBD is too imprecise.
  — Michael Wright, Discover Magazine, 22 Oct. 2021
• The show runs a half hour, well under the standard 50 minutes, and the choreography is a bit imprecise at times.
  — Jared Kaufman, Twin Cities, 7 Aug. 2024
• And yet this process seemed, to him, alarmingly imprecise.
  — James Somers, The New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2019
• Chiefs complained that pass-through traffic in many towns made the measure too imprecise to be useful.
  — Tom Condon, courant.com, 31 Jan. 2022
• The downside is that this big-picture view is fairly imprecise.
  — Lois Parshley, Scientific American, 1 May 2018
• At the time, glucose tests were imprecise and cumbersome.
  — Emily Langer, Washington Post, 5 May 2021
• Maybe someone would apologize for the confusion or the imprecise wording of the law.
  — Jessica Contrera, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Feb. 2018
• But between the flashes of brilliance with Porter are stretches of imprecise basketball, where Porter racks up both the turnovers and the early-shot-clock jumpers.
  — Michael Shapiro, Chron, 14 Mar. 2023
• The animal-pelt overlay is applied in such a way that we are made aware of the cutting and pasting involved, the imprecise use of scissors, the shadow at the edges.
  — New York Times, 13 Oct. 2021
• But those layers were imprecise and could not give a year-by-year reading of how much silver was being produced.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 16 May 2018
• But even Strauss and Howe acknowledge that cycles are imprecise and that the crisis might not come for another few decades.
  — Peter Schwartz, WIRED, 1 Apr. 1997
• The story is further complicated by our gauzy and imprecise view in the rear-view mirror.
  — Washington Post, 14 May 2021
• The feature was hardly that, a display of imprecise punching and pawing.
  — USA TODAY, 14 Oct. 2017
• Among the many complications of predicting an impact is that the study is so imprecise.
  — Popular Mechanics, 11 Nov. 2015
• Until recently, imprecise barrel bombs as well as Russian airstrikes had done little to dislodge the rebels in the east.
  — Michael Jackson, Foreign Affairs, 7 Dec. 2016
• Digital researchers and aid groups say free mapping tools like Google Earth are too imprecise.
  — Luiz Romero, Wired, 28 May 2021
• At first, all the measurements were so imprecise that nobody worried.
  — Quanta Magazine, 13 Feb. 2018
• But if Democrats get a pass to be imprecise when complaining about McConnell’s brazen scheme, what will happen to our democratic norms?
  — Margaret Hartmann, Daily Intelligencer, 28 June 2018
• The data on incidents at schools were pulled from iStar reports, which are an imprecise but useful metric.
  — Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2024
• Your ship moves lightning-quick, but there is also some degree of momentum to the start of your movement that makes minute adjustments ever-so-slightly imprecise.
  — PCMAG, 14 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Dec 2024