How to Use exacting in a Sentence

exacting

adjective
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  • He has very exacting standards.
  • Khan said, could be deemed to meet the clause’s exacting standards.
    — Omar Waraich, The Atlantic, 28 July 2017
  • Dropcloths were scattered about, as if in the home of an exacting man with work to be done.
    — Jeffrey Fleishman, latimes.com, 6 July 2018
  • The teams last faced off in the 2015 state semifinals, with St. Thomas Aquinas exacting revenge on the Scots.
    — Wells Dusenbury, Sun-Sentinel.com, 2 May 2018
  • Some fans praised Colley in the wake of the error; others held him to a more exacting standard.
    — Joan Niesen, SI.com, 11 July 2018
  • In some small way, exacting revenge on an in-city rival seemed to suggest that might be the case.
    — Andrew Turner, Daily Pilot, 3 Sep. 2019
  • But over the past decade or so, the processes have become much more exacting.
    — Samanth Subramanian, Quartz, 9 Apr. 2021
  • At 62, Galás is a feast for the senses, on stage and on record, and her panoramic range seems to have grown coarser yet more exacting with age.
    — James Reed, latimes.com, 27 Apr. 2018
  • Black singers are examined under a more exacting lens than white ones in the same role.
    — Washington Post, 17 Oct. 2019
  • Weil held an exacting view of the philosopher’s mandate.
    — Robert Zaretsky, WSJ, 3 Sep. 2022
  • Each pair is made by hand in Switzerland to exacting standards—evident in the way the tiny tool offers a firm and sure grip.
    — Michael Hsu, WSJ, 22 Sep. 2017
  • But what better time to attempt a messy, exacting project?
    — Anna Thomas Bates, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 26 Mar. 2020
  • Stevens’ exacting standards have led to the Celtics leading the league in defensive rating for most of the season.
    — Dakota Crawford, Indianapolis Star, 2 Apr. 2018
  • Mearns, Peck told me, is one of the strongest and most exacting dancers in the company, and Ramasar one of the few men who can comfortably match her.
    — Sasha Weiss, New York Times, 10 May 2018
  • Then there are those that cater to the crazily exacting needs of busy, busy, busy, cost-is-no-object Miranda Priestlys.
    — Carl Swanson, The Cut, 16 May 2018
  • He was also known to be an exacting boss, even a violent one.
    — The Economist, 11 June 2020
  • The Masters Tournament is run by the club to exacting standards.
    — Gary D'amato, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 4 Apr. 2018
  • The older ones were also more literal and exacting about how closely the play followed the books.
    — New York Times, 24 May 2018
  • The rennet addition is so exacting that Beecher’s uses a scale measuring to the tenth of a gram.
    — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 3 Dec. 2018
  • With the press, Cuomo has a reputation for being both exacting and adept.
    — Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2020
  • If nothing else, one thing is clear: The game belongs to the hosts now, and the season 1 finale was just a preview of Dolores exacting revenge on her makers.
    — Ashley Hoffman, Time, 5 Feb. 2018
  • The owner, Fredrick Sennie, makes everything fresh, to his exacting standards, in the compact kitchen.
    — Kailyn Brown, Los Angeles Times, 23 Aug. 2019
  • There is no better test of those skills than playoff basketball, and no more exacting proctor than the Warriors.
    — Rob Mahoney, SI.com, 18 May 2018
  • As its moniker implies, this piece is in the exacting Swiss style of Hofmann and depicts an assortment of Herman Miller’s famous chairs.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 25 Oct. 2021
  • And his exacting roasting system is a bar to beat, pushing both science and art in the name of an uncompromising cup.
    — Jeff Csatari, Popular Mechanics, 5 Dec. 2019
  • Laura Elliott, in the exacting assignment of Granger's shrewdish young wife, is brilliant.
    — Thr Staff, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 June 2017
  • That sense of rigor is clear in Japanese bar culture as a whole: there’s a love for the exacting and ceremonial.
    — Carey Jones, Vogue, 25 Apr. 2018
  • Yet the last-minute amendments will allow Facebook and other tech companies to avoid the code’s most exacting terms if they are deemed to be contributing enough.
    — The Economist, 24 Feb. 2021
  • The notebook reinforces the image of Beckett as an exacting person for whom no detail is too small.
    — Jim Higgins, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 16 Jan. 2020
  • The hosts had taken over the park, seizing control from their human puppeteers and exacting revenge in all sorts of hideously creative ways.
    — Lorraine Ali, latimes.com, 26 June 2018

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