Example sentences for: imprecise

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

  • Instead, they came up with the imprecise platform tennis, which, to the average person, simply means an `elevated court.

  • The EPA Office of Inspector General investigated the issuance of these press releases and concluded that the agency did not have enough data about the range of possible pollutants other than asbestos to make a judgment, lacked public health benchmarks for appropriate levels of asbestos and other pollutants, and had imprecise methods for sampling asbestos in the air; it also noted that more than 25 percent of the bulk dust samples collected before September 18 showed the presence of asbestos above the agency's 1 percent benchmark.

  • ’ Redundant and imprecise, says the author; the whole truth is a “metaphysical distinction,’ and he cites the much-derided Words and Phrases . Well, perhaps.

  • (In a 1992 report to the National Science Foundation, Ekman and several co-authors reject the term "smirk" on the grounds that it's too coarse and imprecise, "ignoring differences between a variety of different muscular actions to which [it] may refer, and mixing description with inferences about meaning or the message which [it] may convey."

  • Current techniques are relatively imprecise, subjective, and labor intensive.


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