How to Use inexact in a Sentence

inexact

adjective
  • The measurements were somewhat inexact, but they were close enough.
  • The polyester cloth was scratchy on my thighs, the fit inexact.
    — Benny Peterson, Vogue, 4 May 2026
  • Farmers use a small kitchen scale to weigh the cotton, in an inexact process.
    — Thomas Grove, WSJ, 17 Dec. 2018
  • That medicine is an inexact science.
    — Polly Atkin august 26, Literary Hub, 26 Aug. 2025
  • My personal term for the inexact nature of the messy, fuzzy world was muzzy.
    — Charles Platt, WIRED, 30 Mar. 2023
  • But there’s much less inexact about a stopwatch, when placed against the context of a prospect’s high school film.
    — Eric Hansen, Indianapolis Star, 20 Dec. 2019
  • But ferreting those things out is an inexact science at best.
    — Sarah Todd, Quartz at Work, 19 Nov. 2019
  • The parsing of high-level business speak is an inexact art.
    — Evan Clark, Footwear News, 8 Aug. 2025
  • And third, airbag deployments are an inexact proxy for crashes.
    — Aarian Marshall, WIRED, 4 May 2018
  • Exceptions vary by state and the language in laws can often be inexact.
    — Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 23 June 2024
  • And even an inexact forecast provides more insight than no forecast at all.
    — The Economist, 29 June 2019
  • High-tech tunnel detection is an inexact science, to say the least.
    — Arthur Herman, Foreign Affairs, 26 Aug. 2014
  • Like war itself, tracking the evolution of weapons is a messy and inexact business.
    — Stephen C. George, Discover Magazine, 7 Dec. 2023
  • These figures are inexact because income also depends on how much one flies.
    — Vinod Sreeharsha, Miami Herald, 15 Feb. 2024
  • The recruitment of top-level high school football players is an inexact science at best.
    — Joe Juliano, Philly.com, 7 June 2017
  • While polling is an inexact science, none of the three polls released Tuesday had Sessions in the lead.
    — Paul Gattis | [email protected], al, 10 Mar. 2020
  • That’s the beauty of the inexact science involved with scouting players.
    — Orange County Register, 27 Feb. 2017
  • Estimating crowd size is an inexact science even when the crowd is stationary.
    — Dara Lind, Vox, 24 Oct. 2018
  • Assigning lockers can be an inexact science, though.
    — Charlotte Varnes, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Kikuchi and Imai are an inexact comparison.
    — Chandler Rome, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2026
  • This makes drawing and writing with the candy writers cumbersome and inexact.
    — Mabel Wong, Journal Sentinel, 18 Apr. 2023
  • While recruiting is an inexact science, the Elite 11 track record speaks for itself.
    — Paul Myerberg, USA TODAY, 11 July 2019
  • Still, the precise work of measuring self-sovereignty remains inexact.
    — Katie Engelhart, New York Times, 9 May 2023
  • Mapping the road there is inexact, but necessary — and everyone who’s honest hears the ticking clock.
    — Bryce Miller, sandiegouniontribune.com, 20 July 2017
  • With the general elections about five months off, predicting the allottment of seats is an inexact science at best.
    — Benjamin Hart, Daily Intelligencer, 3 June 2018
  • For all sorts of reasons, the data on book sales, bookstores, and most things bookish are notoriously inexact.
    — Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2024
  • But Vox Media is not a public company, and valuing its stock is an inexact science.
    — Sydney Ember, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2016
  • The inexact science of brain injuries and concussion management forced him to assess his future as a ski racer.
    — Beth Bragg, Alaska Dispatch News, 15 Sep. 2017
  • The food arrived on a mottled brown ceramic plate, its inexact edges forming something between a circle and an octagon.
    — Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 28 Mar. 2026
  • After all, matching photos is exactly the kind of inexact process that ML handles well.
    — Eric Siegel, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025

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