Example sentences for: inaccuracies

How can you use “inaccuracies” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • This latest installment of the "Penguin Lives" series is well received, even though it trails Richard Ellman's definitive 900-page Joyce tome, which was deemed "probably this century's best biography of a writer" (David Kippen, the San Francisco Chronicle ). Undaunted, novelist O'Brien attempts something entirely different: She gives 179 pages of "hardheaded hagiography in which she spends a lot of time knocking Joyce around" (Robert Sullivan, the New York Times Book Review ). It's notable not for its wide net, but for its precision, economy, and insight: "a first-rate appraisal of a master … a model of pristine brevity" (Robert Taylor, the Boston Globe ). One complaint: The book contains an "impressive number of inaccuracies of a factual nature," such as misidentifying the poet laureate of Victorian Ireland and misquoting critic Walter Pater (Thomas Flannagan, the Los Angeles Times ). (This Joyce site has essays, links, and message boards on the author.)

  • Inaccuracies in the measurements of buffer pH and of the pK

  • The administrative database was supplemented by appropriate adjustments for the International Classification of Diseases, 9th Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-9-CM) codes 430-438 derived by Williams et al [ 8] to correct for some of the inaccuracies of the diagnostic codes.

  • In addition to these factors leading to inaccuracies in cRNA quantitation, there are at least two important factors leading to differences between cRNA abundances and cellular RNA abundances in the starting biological material.

  • "There are several inaccuracies in what was printed, and that's of more concern than what it might do to the ratings.


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