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
• This is an imprecise way to assess the impact of trade deals on drug prices.
  — Amy Kapczynski, Foreign Affairs, 28 Oct. 2016
• The claim is too broad, too vague, too imprecise to be meaningful.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2020
• The hosts made the most of the ball possession but were too imprecise with the final ball.
  — SI.com, 13 Dec. 2017
• But these labels are clumsy and imprecise—and getting more so all the time.
  — Joe Pinsker, The Atlantic, 14 Oct. 2021
• At the time, his numbers and many of his answers to questions were imprecise.
  — Keith Pandolfi, The Enquirer, 25 Oct. 2024
• The downside is that this big-picture view is fairly imprecise.
  — Lois Parshley, Scientific American, 1 May 2018
• In other words, the camera is looking with the imprecise eye of a doodle.
  — James Vincent, The Verge, 6 July 2018
• Chiefs complained that pass-through traffic in many towns made the measure too imprecise to be useful.
  — Tom Condon, courant.com, 31 Jan. 2022
• Cowboy boot sightings are at an all-time high, by my own imprecise measurements.
  — Halie Lesavage, Harper's BAZAAR, 22 Aug. 2023
• Pinpointing where and when hurtling space debris will strike is an imprecise science.
  — Fox News, 22 Sep. 2011
• The language of the proposal is imprecise, the purpose is not.
  — Kevin Rennie, Hartford Courant, 24 May 2025
• Less precise methods such as sizers can lead to imprecise guessing on size and profile.
  — Dallas News, 23 Jan. 2020
• At first, all the measurements were so imprecise that nobody worried.
  — Quanta Magazine, 13 Feb. 2018
• 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
• His passing against Kentucky was atrocious, imprecise and lacked touch.
  — Mike Bianchi, Orlando Sentinel, 11 Sep. 2022
• In Chatwood, the Dodgers faced one of the most imprecise pitchers in baseball.
  — Andy McCullough, latimes.com, 20 June 2018
• Any definitive records are sparse, belong to the analog era, and are imprecise.
  — Matt Coté, Outside Online, 28 Nov. 2024
• Leaving food on the table due to imprecise fundamentals happens a lot in the big leagues.
  — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Sep. 2025
• The Pacers were down 15 points in the fourth quarter because of imprecise play.
  — Tony East, Forbes.com, 7 June 2025
• This process is very imprecise, so the dose in one packet can differ greatly within or between batches.
  — C. Michael White, Discover Magazine, 29 Aug. 2018
• 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
• The result was an imprecise representation of the slopes and ridges where water could flow — or build up.
  — Evan Bush, NBC news, 12 Aug. 2025
• For many people, dealing with a dropper or a vape pen for CBD is too imprecise.
  — Michael Wright, Discover Magazine, 22 Oct. 2021
• Maybe someone would apologize for the confusion or the imprecise wording of the law.
  — Jessica Contrera, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Feb. 2018
• Any single poll is no more than a snapshot in time, as estimates can be imprecise for numerous reasons.
  — Khaleda Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Aug. 2025
• But the fit between metrics was usually imprecise — a square peg in a round hole type of situation.
  — Quanta Magazine, 13 Aug. 2018