Example Sentences

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Daren actually couldn’t explain how it worked, even inexactly.

From Slate • Feb. 25, 2023

Every biography is a broken mirror, reflecting the past inexactly.

From Washington Post • Oct. 6, 2017

It tastes a little like penne alla vodka, too, oddly, inexactly and wonderfully — marinara meets tikka masala, with momos as tortelloni writ large.

From New York Times • Sep. 8, 2016

It took me a while to figure out, with the inexactly calibrated temperature dial, how to hold the dryer at around 150 degrees Fahrenheit, a good meat-drying temperature.

From Slate • Nov. 3, 2011

He spoke and wrote French, English, and German, inelegantly, it is true, and inexactly, but fluently and intelligibly.

From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 2 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron