Example sentences for: exacting

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

  • Most of the accounts are morose, but a British writer in the Times opines that the Alps are exacting revenge on greedy tourists for exploiting their natural beauty.

  • Hence feminism, or rather, in Lilla's kind words, "the joyless militancy of American feminists"; multiculturalism; gay rights; and all the other movements which subject personal relations to "the exacting scrutiny of pure democratic principles."

  • His exacting minute-by-minute account of hostile encounters and sexual encounters leaves no doubt about what was ultimately at stake when males fought (often coalitionally).

  • A handsome junior executive, Chad (Aaron Eckhart), proposes to a nerdy superior, Howard (Matt Malloy), that as a means of exacting revenge on all the females who've ever hurt them, they both pursue and then dump the same woman--for the fun of it.

  • But Russell Vreeland, a microbiologist at West Chester University in Pennsylvania and first author of the salt-crystal study, is adamant that his methods were exacting.


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