Example Sentences

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I wish I could be exacter, but when I contacted the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, it couldn’t tell me what kind of vintage camera.

From Washington Post • Oct. 17, 2021

At the backyard of 803 Oriole, to be exacter.

From "Maniac Magee" by Jerry Spinelli

A better account, too, than the newspaper one—fuller, exacter, more detailed, backed up by figures—down three long sheets and half-way down a fourth.

From With the Procession by Fuller, Henry Blake

Perhaps wonderful was the exacter word, wonderful in a way that included beauty,--wonderful, and with a strange air about her that suggested exceptional refinement, exquisite sensitiveness to refined things.

From The Romance of Zion Chapel [3d ed.] by Le Gallienne, Richard

The result was as usual; let me employ a statelier and exacter term, and say, historical.

From Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 5 (1901-1906) by Paine, Albert Bigelow