Example sentences for: exhaustive

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

  • This list by no means constitutes an exhaustive list of potential carcinogens on Long Island.

  • Here is a far from exhaustive list of processions and festivities around the country.

  • Gavrilets provides an exhaustive analysis of the many models of sympatric speciation, and identifies some key issues that have been underemphasized.

  • For such cases, the initial profile is run against the all-genomes database by exhaustive local dynamic programming.

  • Consider that the OED , which makes no pretensions at being exhaustive or complete, occupies some twenty quarto volumes in its description of the lexicon alone; consider that a descriptive bibliography of the huge number of lexicographical works on the myriad aspects of English alone would occupy several similar volumes; consider the multivolume works on English grammar--by Curme, Poutsma, Jespersen, et al.; consider the immense corpus of English literature and of the writings about it; and then consider all the material ancillary to the foregoing: the teaching of English not only to foreign learners but to native speakers as well, the conventions of writing, punctuation, usage, and pronunciation, the multifarious influences of English and on English around the world, the study of style and of literary devices, etymology, etc.


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