How to Use exactitude in a Sentence

exactitude

noun
  • It’s affected by forces and can’t be pinned down with exactitude from minute to minute.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 31 Aug. 2020
  • Many words could be used to describe the movie’s approach, but exactitude isn’t among them.
    — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 3 Dec. 2020
  • The menu’s other two mains, skirt steak and wild coho, are grilled over oak with the same exactitude.
    — Providence Cicero, The Seattle Times, 25 Oct. 2018
  • No other movie conveys with such loving exactitude the artistry of a great cuisinier.
    — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 May 2020
  • Such exactitude belies the fact that Lissoni likes to change his mind.
    — New York Times, 24 Mar. 2022
  • Fritz lost that battle, but her exactitude made the project better, Adams said.
    — oregonlive, 26 Dec. 2020
  • Fish for the seasonal omakase menu is prepared with exactitude.
    — Garrett Snyder, Los Angeles Magazine, 18 July 2017
  • Bigelow pulls the film together with the exactitude of a fighter pilot.
    — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 3 Sep. 2025
  • There’s no way to say, with any degree of exactitude, how many times a scene like that has played out during Ovechkin’s career.
    — Sean Gentille, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Roe fills in plenty of history with a fan’s forensic exactitude.
    — Christopher Borrelli, chicagotribune.com, 25 Nov. 2021
  • That exactitude is most evident here in his lineup of crudos, a sharp and optimistic way to begin a meal.
    — Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2024
  • Implementing this kind of exactitude across a crowd of dancers is one of Goebel’s signatures.
    — Coralie Kraft, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2024
  • The sentences that follow shimmer with exactitude and madness.
    — Charles Baxter, Harper's Magazine, 27 Apr. 2020
  • Cove is much larger, with a more formal service style, but the exactitude is still there, the sense of stylishness, the obsession and the delight.
    — Helen Rosner, New Yorker, 11 Jan. 2026
  • The exactitude of the study was astounding, and the timelines for both were at least 18 months long for the phase I was enrolled in.
    — Star Tribune, 25 Sep. 2020
  • That kind of exactitude doesn't often come from an employment agency referral.
    — Heather Millar, WIRED, 1 Aug. 1996
  • But this type of color is what separates this book from the tedious exactitude of other Roosevelt stories.
    — Leigh Giangreco, Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2019
  • Time, usually a slippery measure of island life, has taken on a chilling exactitude on Guam.
    — Time, 16 Aug. 2017
  • The exactitude with which a problem is defined is the most important factor in finding a good quality solution.
    — Ellevate, Forbes, 6 Apr. 2021
  • The spot is theatrically determined with the exactitude of a surgeon cutting into the human brain.
    — oregonlive, 18 July 2022
  • Audiences marveled at the exactitude, the passage of light, the almost palpable presence of a distant place.
    — Susan Tallman, The Atlantic, 13 June 2026
  • Li has become known for distilling the essence of unbearable grief, and doing so with exactitude and an unexpected lightness.
    — Alexandra Kleeman, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2022
  • All of this combines to give the body the dexterity, agility, and exactitude that constitutes high performance in the right moment.
    — Sally Jenkins, The Atlantic, 21 Feb. 2026
  • The bones of superb physical antics are there, but the best farce approaches it with the exactitude of an Olympic gymnastics routine.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 1 Aug. 2024
  • For all the seeming exactitude of the brigade’s roll call record, certain categories are conspicuously missing.
    — Paul Sonne, Washington Post, 16 Dec. 2022
  • But what about all the other tiny details of an experiment that might be subject to the same exactitude—the time of day, the indoor temperature, the size of the pipettes, and so on?
    — Daniel Engber, Slate Magazine, 5 May 2017
  • The serenity and quiet exactitude of those outings correspond perfectly with main sport.
    — Patrick Z. McGavin, Chicago Tribune, 21 Aug. 2025
  • The rigor and exactitude of academic research in a quantitative field in a place like MIT wasn’t fun.
    — Jacob Bacharach, The New Republic, 12 Oct. 2023
  • Given the exactitude of Sondheim’s music, exact rhyme is essential to snap his word into place, where Joni Mitchell can croon right past it.
    — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 23 May 2022
  • Restaurants worry about their ability to cook some cuisines without the exactitude that roaring flames afford, as well as rising electric bills, since electricity costs more than gas.
    — WIRED, 12 Jan. 2023

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