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.

  • The Times chooses its lead story with exacting care and great pride, seeking input from every department.

  • 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."

  • Nixon never entertains the possibility that Felt would do precisely what Limpert and Mann (and, subsequently, Nixon himself) believed Felt to have done: be an informer, but a secret informer, exacting the promise not of lifetime employment but of lifetime confidentiality that he was indeed Woodward's source.

  • Starr's pedantic, religious, exacting personality led him to drag out a case that other prosecutors would have ended quickly.


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