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How to use exacting in a sentence

11 example sentences · adjective

Exacting means making great demands; difficult to satisfy. Example: “Even if a GDF receives its first deposit in the 2040s, the waste has to be delivered and put away with such exacting caution that it can be filled and closed only by the middle of the 22nd century.”

Examples of exacting by meaning

adjectiveOf an action, task, etc., requiring precise accuracy, great care, effort, or attention.

  • Even if a GDF receives its first deposit in the 2040s, the waste has to be delivered and put away with such exacting caution that it can be filled and closed only by the middle of the 22nd century.December 15 2022, Samanth Subramanian, “Dismantling Sellafield: the epic task of shutting down a nuclear site”, in The Guardian

More sentences with exacting

  • More exacting standards for Claus have been set up each year.1941 December 7, Leonard Allen, “Stand-ins for St. Nick”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC…. From the entry Claus
  • You are too old and too exacting to be satisfied with a blank page.1934, Sigurd Christiansen, translated by Isaac Anderson, “The Storm”, in Chaff Before the Wind, New York, N.Y.: Liveright Publishing…. From the entry doddard
  • By such perversely exacting standards the possibilities for a genuine, living Inuit art to exist at all are slim.2009 July 24, Holland Cotter, “Postcards From Canada’s ‘New North’”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 06 May 2021. From the entry perversely
  • From the beginning of the nineteenth century forward, meteoritics progressed steadily to an exacting and highly interdisciplinary field.1999, Harry Y. McSween, Jr., Meteorites and Their Parent Planets, 2nd edition, Cambridge University Press, page 7. From the entry meteoritics
  • The trumpeter Wallace Roney, a leading disciple of the Davis sound and style, played with exacting purpose and unrepressed enthusiasm, carving up the song.2008 May 12, Nate Chinen, “Recalling Miles Davis by Crossing Cultures”, in New York Times. From the entry unrepressed
  • As is the case of patterns, coreboxes range from simple wooden structures to precision metal assemblies capable of long life under exacting conditions.2001, Peter Beeley, Foundry Technology, Elsevier Science, page 476. From the entry corebox
  • Purists like to confine Wasps to descendants of the British Isles; less exacting analysts are willing to throw in Scandinavians, Netherlanders and Germans.1969 January 17, “Essay: Are the WASPS Coming Back? Have They Ever Been Away?”, in Time, →ISSN. From the entry wasp
  • Most of the eight Siberian parishes were very extensive and the work of a Lutheran pastor in those parts was exacting and strenuous.1961, Walter Kolarz, “Western Protestantism I (Lutheranism, Calvinists, Mennonites)”, in Religion in the Soviet Union, London: Macmillan &…. From the entry Kharbin
  • Yes, these qualifiers may not be the most exacting examinations but he has also looked a class act at club level under manager David Moyes this season.2021 March 31, Phil McNulty, “England 2-1 Poland: What shape are Gareth Southgate's side in?”, in BBC Sport. From the entry class act
  • Sundine specializes in facelifts, necklifts and browlifting, eyelid surgery, as well as rhinoplasty, which involves both technically exacting skill and a keen eye for aesthetic balance.2008 January, Orange Coast, page 190. From the entry rhinoplasty

Meaning of exacting

  1. adjective Making great demands; difficult to satisfy.
  2. adjective Of an action, task, etc., requiring precise accuracy, great care, effort, or attention.
  3. adjective Of a person or organization, characterized by exaction.

Full definition of exacting

Questions about exacting in a sentence

How do you use exacting in a sentence?
Exacting is used as an adjective. For example: “Even if a GDF receives its first deposit in the 2040s, the waste has to be delivered and put away with such exacting caution that it can be filled and closed only by the middle of the 22nd century.”
What is a short sentence with exacting?
“More exacting standards for Claus have been set up each year.”
What does exacting mean?
Exacting means making great demands; difficult to satisfy.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: exacting (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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