How to Use exactly in a Sentence

exactly

adverb

• The levers need to be exactly positioned.
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Text the group chat and get packing because here’s exactly how to find cheap flights.
  — Leah Campano, Seventeen, 5 June 2023
• There’s a good chance this is exactly what happened on your phone or iPad, too.
  — Chris Velazco, Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2023
• In this era of concerts, the fan knows exactly what song is coming and when long before the performer hits the stage.
  — Mac Engel, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 2 Mar. 2024
• But what is the price, exactly, for genius and prestige?
  — Mark Athitakis, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2024
• But no two people process loss in exactly the same way.
  — Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 14 Jan. 2024
• But the chunks of tomato were way too big, which threw the ratio off (which is exactly what Jimmy’s got just right).
  — The Arizona Republic, 25 Mar. 2024
• That’s taking control of a movie, which is exactly what Glass does.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 13 Mar. 2024
• What exactly is a solar eclipse? Eclipses of all types are caused by an alignment in space between the sun, moon and Earth.
  — Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 7 Apr. 2024
• And Craft points out that researchers still don’t know exactly how the erupting water makes its way through the moon’s ice shell.
  — Ling Xin, Scientific American, 14 Dec. 2023
• That to me embodied exactly what the hotel is all about.
  — Adam Rathe, Town & Country, 22 July 2023
• They have not been told where exactly Marrio is buried.
  — Jon Schuppe, NBC News, 23 Nov. 2023
• Of the at least 380 such incidents since then, the NYPD has published footage within a month exactly twice.
  — Eric Umansky, ProPublica, 26 Jan. 2024
• The 17-ounce carafe makes exactly the right amount of coffee for my husband and I to each have a reasonable 8.5-ounce cup.
  — Carina Finn, Bon Appétit, 26 Jan. 2024
• Heirloom tomato plants, on the other hand, do produce seed that is exactly like the parent plant most of the time.
  — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 Aug. 2023
• The team drove in long stakes to mark the perimeter of the site, roughly a 10-foot square, then gently dug just deep enough to establish exactly where the clutch of eggs was.
  — Lawrence Specker | [e-mail], al, 29 June 2023
• Police did not say exactly what the driver was doing before the car went airborne off the cliff.
  — Pilar Arias, Fox News, 2 Mar. 2024
• But that’s just how Pluma is—not cocky, but confident that things will work out; that this is exactly where he’s supposed to be.
  — Cat Cardenas, Harper's BAZAAR, 29 June 2023
• Though both sides said an explosion caused the dam’s breach, it’s not yet known exactly what happened.
  — George Petras, USA TODAY, 6 June 2023
• Most experts aren’t keen to try to predict exactly how these cases will shake out.
  — Kate Knibbs, WIRED, 22 Nov. 2023
• The details of exactly how it will all be put into motion, such as when the truce will start and the exchange will take place, have not been made public.
  — Victoria Beaule, ABC News, 22 Nov. 2023
• Eighty feels exactly like 80 with seemingly a new pain each day.
  — Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2023
• Designers are its missionaries, and on Tuesday evening, Mr. Williams seemed exactly like the person to take us all to church on the way to the bank.
  — Guy Trebay, New York Times, 28 June 2023

Last Updated: 5 May 2024