How to Use precisely in a Sentence

precisely

adverb
  • I feel precisely the same way as you do.
  • That’s precisely what the rest of the Pac-12 should fear.
    Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 9 Nov. 2022
  • No one knew for sure, and that was precisely the point.
    Becca Rothfeld, Washington Post, 31 July 2024
  • My app, which helps you to precisely locate the AirTag on a map.
    Olivia Young, Travel + Leisure, 10 Oct. 2023
  • That’s not precisely the charge made by Walz against Vance.
    David Mark, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 17 Aug. 2024
  • For those who argue that now is not the time for harsh words, now is precisely the time.
    Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 13 Sep. 2022
  • And precisely that was the rub four years ago between Messrs. Page and Williams.
    Guy Martin, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2022
  • This is precisely what an artist named Michael Landy did in 2001.
    Prince Ghuman, Forbes, 20 June 2022
  • The jury is still out on precisely how long that lag is.
    Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN, 17 Sep. 2024
  • Netflix's 'The Stranger' is precisely how a crime-thriller film should be done.
    Andy Meek, BGR, 24 Oct. 2022
  • The big question now is precisely how to sweeten the deal.
    Jane Thier, Fortune, 7 Nov. 2022
  • The idea is to talk about flowers the way a gourmand would want to know precisely where their cheese was made and by whom.
    Deanna Kizis, Sunset Magazine, 11 July 2023
  • That is Joe Biden, who has, in fact, already tried to do precisely that.
    CBS News, 30 June 2024
  • Or more precisely, a bunch of rocks that look like potatoes.
    Dino Grandoni, Anchorage Daily News, 26 May 2023
  • The details of the shooting in Japan seem to demonstrate precisely how.
    New York Times, 9 July 2022
  • That’s precisely what’s been happening in some areas of North Texas and around the state for at least the past three years.
    Erin Hayes Burt, Dallas News, 9 May 2023
  • At the end of the day, what we are now left with is precisely this rule in California.
    Jay Adkisson, Forbes, 6 Sep. 2024
  • But that is precisely what the update was designed to do.
    Sue Halpern, The New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2022
  • But for Cotton, the beauty of street art is precisely the fact that it is so rarely preserved.
    Ryan Hogg, Fortune, 14 Aug. 2024
  • That's precisely what much of the last three months have been for the Milwaukee Brewers, too.
    Curt Hogg, Journal Sentinel, 20 Aug. 2022
  • Back to Black lightens that burden for us—and that’s precisely what’s wrong with it.
    Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 17 May 2024
  • No one knows precisely how events will unfold in the coming days.
    Javed Ali, The Conversation, 24 Oct. 2023
  • And now, Democrats are forced to grapple with precisely how to respond.
    Tal Axelrod, ABC News, 22 Nov. 2024
  • Winds were shifting, but no one knew precisely where, or by how much.
    Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Oct. 2023
  • These are precisely the kinds of programs the private sector tends not to do on its own.
    David Leonhardt, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2023
  • All of this is pitched at precisely the tone between earnest and playful.
    Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Mar. 2024
  • Some people say that’s precisely what now hangs in the balance.
    Thomas Farragher, BostonGlobe.com, 9 July 2022
  • Next, the firms, the authority and the Orioles will nail down what, precisely, will be done with the ballpark.
    Hayes Gardner, Baltimore Sun, 2 July 2024
  • The blades are sharp and cut precisely, according to one customer who also likes its ergonomic design.
    Kelsey Fredricks, People.com, 30 Jan. 2025
  • This is precisely the question Trump, who believes the American people have been taken advantage of by other countries for decades, should be asking.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 30 Jan. 2025

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