How to Use precisely in a Sentence

precisely

adverb

• I feel precisely the same way as you do.
• That’s precisely what the rest of the Pac-12 should fear.
  — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 9 Nov. 2022
• 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
• For those who argue that now is not the time for harsh words, now is precisely the time.
  — Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 13 Sep. 2022
• 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
• Netflix's 'The Stranger' is precisely how a crime-thriller film should be done.
  — Andy Meek, BGR, 24 Oct. 2022
• The big question now is precisely how to sweeten the deal.
  — Jane Thier, Fortune, 7 Nov. 2022
• 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 that is precisely what the update was designed to do.
  — Sue Halpern, The New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2022
• 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
• And now, Democrats are forced to grapple with precisely how to respond.
  — Tal Axelrod, ABC News, 22 Nov. 2024
• 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
• And thanks to the photos and videos shared in the study, scientists have deciphered precisely how orcas are able to take down these whale sharks.
  — Alexa Robles-Gil, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Dec. 2024
• That is precisely what reality tells us, and the record in this case contains ample citation to scientific proof of it.
  — The Editors, National Review, 5 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 23 Dec 2024