Example sentences for: thoroughness

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

  • The important thing is the notion of thoroughness: the indexer must try to anticipate and provide for a variety of users' needs in an index; users do not seek the same sort of information, and the effort must be made to imagine the uses to which a particular work will be put, then to provide the users with as many access points to the information as can reasonably be expected.

  • The NYT says there are endgame disagreements inside the White House, with Charles Ruff on the side of speed, opposing David Kendall, on the side of thoroughness.

  • The Library of America edition of his writings, edited by Sacvan Bercovitch, includes, in a spirit of thoroughness, random essays and stories that the author never finished; some screenplays; and a few letters to F. Scott Fitzgerald, Edmund Wilson, and other literary figures.

  • These disincentives to thoroughness and honesty resulted in surveillance data and reports that did not reflect true incidence and prevalence of disease, circumstances, needs, responses, or impacts [ 9 ] .

  • It was in the 1920s that serious scholarship on American place names, characterized (unlike most earlier work) by thoroughness, objectivity, and linguistic training, began to be published on a regular basis.


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