How to Use precisely in a Sentence

precisely

adverb

• I feel precisely the same way as you do.
• No one knew for sure, and that was precisely the point.
  — Becca Rothfeld, Washington Post, 31 July 2024
• My app, which helps you to precisely locate the AirTag on a map.
  — Olivia Young, Travel + Leisure, 10 Oct. 2023
• That’s not precisely the charge made by Walz against Vance.
  — David Mark, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 17 Aug. 2024
• And precisely that was the rub four years ago between Messrs. Page and Williams.
  — Guy Martin, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2022
• The jury is still out on precisely how long that lag is.
  — Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN, 17 Sep. 2024
• The idea is to talk about flowers the way a gourmand would want to know precisely where their cheese was made and by whom.
  — Deanna Kizis, Sunset Magazine, 11 July 2023
• That is Joe Biden, who has, in fact, already tried to do precisely that.
  — CBS News, 30 June 2024
• Or more precisely, a bunch of rocks that look like potatoes.
  — Dino Grandoni, Anchorage Daily News, 26 May 2023
• That’s precisely what’s been happening in some areas of North Texas and around the state for at least the past three years.
  — Erin Hayes Burt, Dallas News, 9 May 2023
• At the end of the day, what we are now left with is precisely this rule in California.
  — Jay Adkisson, Forbes, 6 Sep. 2024
• But for Cotton, the beauty of street art is precisely the fact that it is so rarely preserved.
  — Ryan Hogg, Fortune, 14 Aug. 2024
• Back to Black lightens that burden for us—and that’s precisely what’s wrong with it.
  — Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 17 May 2024
• No one knows precisely how events will unfold in the coming days.
  — Javed Ali, The Conversation, 24 Oct. 2023
• Winds were shifting, but no one knew precisely where, or by how much.
  — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Oct. 2023
• These are precisely the kinds of programs the private sector tends not to do on its own.
  — David Leonhardt, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2023
• All of this is pitched at precisely the tone between earnest and playful.
  — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Mar. 2024
• Next, the firms, the authority and the Orioles will nail down what, precisely, will be done with the ballpark.
  — Hayes Gardner, Baltimore Sun, 2 July 2024
• But the progress America has made since then, Scott said, is precisely what shows how great the country is.
  — Marianne Levine, Cleve R. Wootson Jr. and Dylan Wells, The Washington Post, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Aug. 2023
• But as officials describe it, the task force and the Top 50 list were formed precisely for the people whom the system had failed time and again.
  — Andy Newman, New York Times, 13 May 2023
• The flow of billions of dollars into Gaza hinges on who, precisely, will govern the strip.
  — Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Dec. 2023
• This is precisely the approach that the Arab Peace Initiative would take.
  — Mohammad Shtayyeh, Foreign Affairs, 4 July 2024
• Second, this is precisely the time of year when the judge’s law clerks, who help craft rulings over the course of a one-year term, move on to make way for new clerks.
  — Byjeff John Roberts, Fortune Crypto, 15 Aug. 2023
• While this might feel like micromanaging, the goal isn’t to spend precisely that much each time.
  — Mallika Mitra, wsj.com, 14 Nov. 2023
• Others are unique names that stand out from the crowd—and that might be precisely why the grandparents don't approve.
  — Sherri Gordon, Parents, 4 Sep. 2024
• And that's precisely why so many people hate this import from Japan.
  — Steve Bender, Southern Living, 19 Oct. 2023
• That's precisely what happened with Derek the cat and his family.
  — Liza Esquibias, Peoplemag, 9 June 2023
• There’s also the now-pressing question — pushed to the fore by the casino feud — about precisely where the massacre occurred.
  — James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2023
• Up to four speakers can be shown in split-screen, which looks like a slick TV news production—and that was precisely the inspiration.
  — Jeff Wilser, TIME, 30 Oct. 2024
• As a result, the very outcome the founders most feared, namely election of a demagogue by a gullible cult of true-believers, has been made possible because of the Electoral College, which was originally designed to avoid precisely that outcome.
  — Joseph J. Ellis, The Mercury News, 31 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Nov 2024