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  • The new test measures hormone levels more precisely.
    precisely = accurately
  • The company says it measures calories burned within 15% or the precise measurement that could be obtained in a laboratory.
    precise = exact
  • The detective is talking to all the witnesses to try to determine the precise sequence of events.
  • Even trained for years as they all had been in precision of language, what words could you use which would give another the experience of sunshine?   (source)
    precision = exactness or accuracy
  • I remember the scratch of my pen moving across the page, recounting in detail, for a full eight pages, precisely what my sister had said.   (source)
    precisely = exactly
  • Shyly and softly, she would have listed the precise species of grasses woven into each nest, or the age in days of a female fledgling based on the emerging colors of her wingtips.   (source)
    precise = specific
  • Perhaps there would never be a precise answer as to when and where it occurred.   (source)
    precise = exact
  • I've forgotten so many things, and yet I always know precisely how many days I've been in my domain.   (source)
    precisely = exactly
  • Parmenides is valuable in precisely the way that it is valuable to have an acquaintance who reliably picks the wrong horse each and every time you take him to the racetrack.   (source)
  • But it wasn't precisely Mama's face, because Papa's eyes were there too, shaped like fat, brown almonds.   (source)
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  •   "Afghanistan is like a beautiful mansion littered with garbage, and someone has to take out the garbage."
      "That's what you were doing in Mazar, going door-to-door? Taking out the garbage?"
      "Precisely."
      "In the west, they have an expression for that," I said. "They call it ethnic cleansing."   (source)
  • Probably this whole segment of the woods has been armed with precision launchers that are concealed in trees or rocks.   (source)
    precision = accurate
  • The pins are held in precise place by rigid scaffolding.   (source)
    precise = exact
  • The bombsight would then take over flying the plane, follow a precise path to the target, calculate the drop angle, and release the bombs at the optimal moment.   (source)
  • You all know, of course, that Hogwarts was founded over a thousand years ago — the precise date is uncertain — by the four greatest witches and wizards of the age.   (source)
  • When the boy headed off into the Alaska bush, he entertained no illusions that he was trekking into a land of milk and honey; peril, adversity, and Tolstoyan renunciation were precisely what he was seeking.   (source)
    precisely = exactly
  • Next I walked over to a drop-leaf table and sniffed a beeswax candle that smelled precisely like the furniture wax.   (source)
  • I tried to picture what the weather was like and what room we were in and what she was wearing and what precisely she had said.   (source)
  • There was garlic in it and some other spices and the smells came up to him and made him think of home, his mother cooking, the rich smells of the kitchen, and at that precise instant, with his mind full of home and the smell from the food filling him, the plane appeared.   (source)
    precise = exact
  • No one ever said precisely what it was that she would not be able to manage.   (source)
    precisely = exactly
  • The phrase in the spotlight has seemed to me ever since to denote a precise form of humiliation.   (source)
    precise = specific
  • And when they walked into the side yard, their gaits were identical, as if their bodies were hinged in precisely the same way.   (source)
    precisely = exactly
  • His fingers were long and fine and they moved with great precision.   (source)
    precision = accuracy
  • Be as precise as you can.   (source)
    precise = accurate
  • She would have made an archer, I thought. That cold-eyed precision.   (source)
    precision = accuracy
  • She put one foot ahead of the other with precise regularity, not allowing her pace to lag.   (source)
    precise = exact
  •   "Walter Cronkite said it was a miracle!"
      "Precisely, Mr. Watson. Walt has two of these babies in his car and one on his motorcycle!"   (source)
    precisely = exactly
  • He had re-created an animal millions of years old, with such precision that the creature could even reproduce itself.   (source)
    precision = accuracy
  • Precisely the same as last year and the year before that, with only two minor changes.   (source)
    precisely = exactly
  • How do you expect our boys to be as precise as that thousands of feet up with bombs weighing tons!   (source)
    precise = accurate or exact
  •   "Bibwit, is this true?"
      "Not precisely," answered Bibwit.   (source)
    precisely = exactly
  • We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed.   (source)
    precise = exact
  • HALE: But this child claims the girls are not truthful, and if they are not—
    DANFORTH: That is precisely what I am about to consider, sir.   (source)
    precisely = exactly
  • To Father, peeling potatoes is not a chore, but precision work.   (source)
    precision = requiring exact actions
  • ...a thin line so precise that he could make it spiral seventy-nine times from the center to the edge of the desk without the lines ever touching or overlapping.   (source)
    precise = exact
  • With careful and precise aim, George shot the rubber doo-doo through the air and across the room.   (source)
    precise = exact (accurate)
  • Precise hit, otherwise you incapacitate instead of kill.   (source)
  • With a sort of military precision that astonished him, she outlined the route that he was to follow.   (source)
    precision = the quality of exactness or accuracy
  • Be a little more precise, my dear. To what in particular are you referring?   (source)
    precise = clear
  • That's precisely why I don't want to come again.   (source)
    precisely = exactly
  • The things are precisely the same.   (source)
  • It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that ... concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. It understood you just so far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey.   (source)
  •   "But they are men," said Rainsford hotly.
      "Precisely," said the general. "That is why I use them. It gives me pleasure. They can reason, after a fashion. So they are dangerous."   (source)
  • Everything had been carefully thought out, and done systematically and with precision.   (source)
    precision = accuracy
  • The minister had inquired of Hester, with no little interest, the precise time at which the vessel might be expected to depart.   (source)
    precise = exact
  • I now related my history briefly but with firmness and precision, marking the dates with accuracy and never deviating into invective or exclamation.   (source)
    precision = the quality of exactness or accuracy
  • The circumstance was precisely as this lady has represented it.   (source)
    precisely = exactly
  • I didn't know precisely what I was afraid of, but it wasn't this.   (source)
  • Then she slipped into sign, which she performed unhurriedly and with great precision.   (source)
    precision = exactness or accuracy
  • We are here, Your Honor, precisely to discover what no one has ever seen.   (source)
    precisely = exactly or accurately
  • And then the first drop of rain plopped precisely on the tip of her nose.   (source)
    precisely = exactly
  • We spent most of dinner imagining how, precisely, Daisy would retire from Chuck E. Cheese's.   (source)
  • Footsteps landed on the floorboards in the hallway, precise, unhurried steps.   (source)
    precise = clearly expressed
  • Her motions were precise, nothing wasted.   (source)
    precise = exact in their movements
  • The shock made a hole in her, very neat, very precise.   (source)
    precise = exact
  • To be more precise, because of the behavior of the system in phase space.   (source)
    precise = accurate
  • Ginny drew a deep breath and, at that precise moment, Percy Weasley appeared, looking tired and wan.   (source)
    precise = exact
  • McCandless was something else, although precisely what is hard to say.   (source)
    precisely = exactly
  • At 3:32 precisely, I noticed Kaitlyn striding confidently past the Wok House.   (source)
  • Connor's shots had been very precise; they were low, and directed at a corner of the crate.   (source)
    precise = exact
  • That's precisely where the lessons come in.   (source)
    precisely = exactly
  • In fact, it was made by craftsmen known the world over for their commitment to precision.   (source)
    precision = exactness or accuracy
  • Both watches showed precisely the same time.   (source)
    precisely = exactly
  • he doesn't want a totally untrained little kid start screwing up his precision maneuvers.   (source)
    precision = the quality of exactness or accuracy
  • I apologize — I mean I should have been more precise.   (source)
    precise = accurate
  • His hands had a precise, careful economy that I admired.   (source)
    precise = exact movement
  • Which is precisely what Jurassic Park is not.   (source)
    precisely = exactly
  • But of course I am the same old Bibwit Harte, Alyss; I am the same precisely because I am old.   (source)
  • But that was Claude—tricking her into laughing precisely because she resisted.   (source)
    precisely = specifically (used for emphasis)
  • For what the Lord giveth, is precisely what he cometh later to taketh away.   (source)
    precisely = exactly
  • "That is precisely how I feel about my virginity," Daisy said.   (source)
  • It was so — oh, I wish language were more precise!   (source)
    precise = exact (accurate)
  • The scent got laid down in me in a permanent way and had all the precision of cinnamon.   (source)
    precision = clear expression
  • Oddly, it's precisely that lack of expectation that keeps the study jets full most of the time.   (source)
    precisely = exactly
  • And of course our community can't function smoothly if people don't use precise language.   (source)
    precise = accurate
  • More precisely, I gather they have been addressing you as Your Excellency….   (source)
    precisely = exactly
  • I moved carefully through my work, my fingers precise, aware of every sensation.   (source)
    precise = exact in their movements
  • It was an integral part of the learning of precise speech.   (source)
    precise = exact
  • The pain was drawn clear and precise across his face.   (source)
    precise = clearly expressed
  • Sharply, as if to wound me with her precision, she turned her gaze to Telemachus.   (source)
    precision = accuracy
  • When he began to talk again, it was with greater precision.   (source)
  • His dry voice, drawing with precision the follies of gods and mortals.   (source)
    precision = clear accuracy
  • Immediately he had been taken aside for a brief private lesson in language precision.   (source)
    precision = accuracy
  • But the reason for precision of language was to ensure that unintentional lies were never uttered.   (source)
  • And precision of language was one of the most important tasks of small children.   (source)
  • As much money and life as you could want! The two things most human beings would choose above all — the trouble is, humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them.   (source)
    precisely = exactly
  • I remember the precise moment, crouching behind a crumbling mud wall, peeking into the alley near the frozen creek.   (source)
    precise = exact
  • Stripping pods is a precise and meticulous job that might be suited to pedantic dentists or finicky spice experts, but it's a horror for an impatient teenager like me.   (source)
    precise = requiring exact actions
  • Seeing that all life depends on this precise and intricate code transcribed on fragile, organic slivers, which would perish instantly in a slightly warmer or colder world.   (source)
    precise = specific
  • He put an arrow to the string, pulled it back to his cheek, pointed it at a din hummock, and at that precise instant the bow wood exploded in his hands sending splinters and chips of wood into his face.   (source)
    precise = exact
  • I was pleased by the familiarity of the arrangement: me, pressed into the corner, away from the other children, a precise reproduction of every Sunday school lesson from my childhood.   (source)
  • I can't truly describe him, I can't get a precise focus: he's blurred, like the face in some wet, discarded newspaper.   (source)
    precise = clear
  • She can pick up a single peanut with elegant precision, tickle a passing mouse, tap the shoulder of a dozing keeper.   (source)
    precision = accuracy
  • It all looked precisely like northern Ohio to me, with its flat land and long, straight roads, and I thought what a very long journey this was going to be.   (source)
    precisely = exactly
  • He knew precisely what was at stake.   (source)
  • The waves of terrorists continued, and they mowed down every one, their shooting astonishingly precise, as it had to be, lest they fire into the school.   (source)
    precise = accurate
  • But more than five weeks into their ordeal, both Louie and Phil were enjoying remarkable precision of mind, and were convinced that they were growing sharper every day.   (source)
    precision = accuracy
  • This is a sharp time, now, a precise time—we live no longer in the dusky afternoon when evil mixed itself with good and befuddled the world.   (source)
    precise = exact
  • Her gown was white as well, a design inspired — she told us at some length — by ancient Greece, the Winged Victory of Samothrace to be precise.   (source)
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  • She is precise in her thinking, appearance, and movements.
  • "What you need to learn, children," she always said, in her resonant, precise voice, "is the difference between right and wrong in every area of life."   (source)
    precise = careful about details (in this case to pronounce each syllable perfectly)
  • She was a quiet, precise woman who had been at Welch High School so long that she had also been Dad's English teacher.   (source)
    precise = meticulous (careful about details)
  • Roy's fingers trembled as he undid the precisely tied clove-hitch knots.   (source)
    precisely = carefully
  • I confess, our rigor and precision wearies me at times.   (source)
    precision = meticulousness (careful attention to detail)
  • His handwriting is neat, precise.   (source)
    precise = meticulous (careful about details)
  • She was simply bringing to the Komsomol the same unwavering enthusiasm and precise attention to detail that she had brought to the mathematics of Professor Lisitsky.   (source)
    precise = meticulous
  • "You have forgotten your place, nymph. I am a daughter of Zeus. Perhaps I cannot strike directly at your son, but the Fates say nothing about what I can do to you."
    She set the words in the room precisely as stones in a mosaic.   (source)
    precisely = meticulously
  • "I just want to be clear about a few details," he said, making notes in a precise hand.   (source)
    precise = meticulous (very neat)
  • Never had she wielded her imaginative powers so precisely, so intensely, or for so long a time.   (source)
    precisely = meticulously (with great care for small details)
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  • Her bearing is perhaps most like the noble bearing of the women of the Hereros of Southwest Africa—rather as if she imagines that as she walks she still bears a basket or a vessel upon her head. Her speech, on the other hand, is as careless as her carriage is precise—she is inclined to slur everything—   (source)
    precise = meticulous (careful about details)
  • The Army was as methodical and precise about recordkeeping as it was about everything else: the size of the file, the number of pages stapled to it, right-side info versus left-side, what dot and dash and triple slash went where.   (source)
  • In the corresponding cubicle on the other side a small, precise-looking, dark— chinned man named Tillotson was working steadily away, with a folded newspaper on his knee and his mouth very close to the mouthpiece of the speakwrite.   (source)
  • I do not know the play; but, as Maria says, if there is anything a little too warm (and it is so with most of them) it can be easily left out. We must not be over-precise, Edmund.   (source)
    precise = excessively concerned with proper manners
  • For the last ten minutes, with a heavenly disregard for the precisions of passing time, the church bells of Haarlem had been pealing out 7:00 and now half a block away in the town square, the great bell of St. Bavo's solemnly donged seven times.†   (source)
  • You'll be good at ironing. You like precision and clean lines.   (source)
    precision = attention to detail
  • It attested to a precision of purpose and the promise of adventure.   (source)
    precision = careful implementation
  • But he was mapped and surveyed, each stone and hummock noted with clear-eyed precision.   (source)
    precision = meticulousness (careful attention to detail)
  • To conjure an army she would need to be extremely focused and precise.   (source)
    precise = meticulous (careful about details)
  • A land of optimism, precision, and political neutrality, it was the Switzerland of the hotel.   (source)
    precision = meticulousness (care about small details)
  • (MAMA repeats the phrase with precision and cool emotion) In my mother's house there is still God.   (source)
  • Enunciating precisely but soundlessly: "There's a white man at the door!"   (source)
    precisely = meticulously (with great care for small details)
  • As a trainer, she was relentless and precise, moving with the same crisp economy Edgar had noticed in teachers and nurses.   (source)
    precise = meticulous (careful about details)
  • He had drawn the interiors of rooms and labeled them and specified their dimensions, down to the inches, in his precise, blocky handwriting.   (source)
  • A sword appeared, but in outline only, plain and without detail, as if the weapon had not been precisely envisioned.   (source)
    precisely = meticulously (with great care for small details)
  • If these are bound up in you and you alone, and not in data and precisely recorded procedures, what will your efforts amount to?   (source)
  • The same man who filled out log records with the precision of a penmanship teacher wrote his notes in a madman's scribble.   (source)
    precision = attention to detail
  • Now that was the life of the Boyarsky—a battle that must be waged with exacting precision while giving the impression of effortlessness, every single night of the year.   (source)
    precision = meticulousness (care about small details)
  • BENEATHA: (Angrily, precisely as in the first scene of the play) What have you got to do with who I marry!   (source)
    precisely = meticulously (with great care for small details)
  • The meeting was very satisfactory on each side. Miss Crawford found a sister without preciseness or rusticity, a sister's husband who looked the gentleman, and a house commodious and well fitted up; and Mrs. Grant received in those whom she hoped to love better than ever a young man and woman of very prepossessing appearance.   (source)
    preciseness = rigid concern for rules and manners
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  • Fortunately, she had figured out that we were precisely the kind of people who would need help finding the right classroom.†   (source)
  • One second after another, it keeps on ticking precisely.†   (source)
  • They had nearly no defense, precisely because the attack vectors were, by definition, unknown.†   (source)
  • Is it not possible that our reverence for all the statues and cathedrals and ancient institutions was precisely what was holding us back?†   (source)
  • Mamaw understood precisely where he came from.†   (source)
  • Mid- to late forties, straight-backed in his immaculate uniform, his cap sitting precisely on his head—a perfect mannequin, thinks Lale, like those he occasionally helped dress when he worked in the department store in Bratislava.†   (source)
  • Yes, precisely.†   (source)
  • Though the sun and the shadows had seemed plenty to let him know roughly what time it was up to that point, being a Runner probably required more precision.†   (source)
  • Wes had his entire operation organized with the precision of a military unit or a division of a Fortune 500 company.†   (source)
  • My opponent's movements were relentless and precise, and I spent the first few waves just trying to evade him.†   (source)
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  • The next day was a precise copy of the one before: the sun and the heat and, worst of all to Salva's mind, a landscape that was utterly unchanged.†   (source)
  • Precisely.†   (source)
  • Eddie realized that was precisely what he'd been feeling for years.†   (source)
  • Precisely.†   (source)
  • "Cosmetic surgeons, to be precise," Maddy said.†   (source)
  • Motionless and precise.†   (source)
  • The caller had described our building precisely when making his threat.†   (source)
  • "Precisely, Amos," said Mr. Weasley.†   (source)
  • "I," said Silas, "am precisely what I am, and nothing more.†   (source)
  • But his voice is quiet and his words precise.†   (source)
  • And that's precisely what he did.†   (source)
  • But "when the time for good-byes came, the scene erupted precisely as Laila had dreaded.†   (source)
  • A woman's face appeared, middle-aged but beautiful, under expensive precision-cut hair.†   (source)
  • At that precise moment, the buzzer on the oven went off, sounding as loud as a siren.†   (source)
  • Precisely.†   (source)
  • That Parr was a worthy subject precisely because he did nothing, because he was so monumentally good at doing nothing?†   (source)
  • Precisely.†   (source)
  • "And what, precisely, were you doing in the garden?" he asked.†   (source)
  • In precise and chilling detail, Williams described Danny's rampage through the house on April 3, a month before he died.†   (source)
  • To be precise: a lightning bolt.†   (source)
  • "Even though these aren't precisely the problems here, it's well to remember that this transition is always always difficult."†   (source)
  • Chaol delivered each blow with such precision that Dorian had to admire him.†   (source)
  • I was once a lieutenant, I thought, a "junior lieutenant," to be precise.†   (source)
  • It was quite a precise job.†   (source)
  • He was so precise, he never touched the rim.†   (source)
  • What do you mean, precisely?†   (source)
  • To be kept precisely where he wished it would be?†   (source)
  • Not many people died in the 1st Wave, the massive electromagnetic pulse that ripped through the atmosphere at precisely eleven A.M. on the tenth day.†   (source)
  • That's how precise she is.†   (source)
  • She caught his meaning precisely.†   (source)
  • His heart was racing; he wasn't being precise.†   (source)
  • "And we don't need a precision landing.†   (source)
  • Her chin is bent down and you can see the precise part in her hair, a neat white line drawn from above her left brow then over the black horizon of her head.†   (source)
  • A lock of my dark hair falls in my eyes, and before I can try to swish it away, Walsh pushes the hair back and fastens it with a tiny pin, her motions quick and precise.†   (source)
  • The women in Mrs. Murphy's quilting group of which I am the youngest member and honorary daughter; they've cheered my every milestone—are taking extra care with it, hand sewing in precise small stitches a pattern on top of the design.†   (source)
  • Theirs just fit with mine—didn't duplicate it precisely, but had a lot of the same things going on inside.†   (source)
  • Meet me behind the pub in precisely five and a half minutes!†   (source)
  • "Precisely!" she shouted.†   (source)
  • The fact that she can recall these details so precisely is at once startling and endearing to him.†   (source)
  • Then Gertrudis, with the practiced eye she'd gained on the battlefield, made a strategic estimate of the time it would take Pedro to step over the threshold of the door, so that at that precise moment, she could fire these words: " ….†   (source)
  • In fact, we can be even more precise.†   (source)
  • "Our half brother," Sansa corrected, soft and precise.†   (source)
  • Hands that have the power to mine coal but the precision to set a delicate snare.†   (source)
  • Precisely.†   (source)
  • Everything crisp, everything precise, every time.†   (source)
  • Precisely.†   (source)
  • Gey, they said, was precisely that man.†   (source)
  • "That is precisely what we don't demand!"†   (source)
  • Precisely.†   (source)
  • His mother never met his father, an Angus by the name of Gar Precision 1680.†   (source)
  • Climbing was a magnificent activity, I firmly believed, not in spite of the inherent perils, but precisely because of them.†   (source)
  • I watch her hands as she cuts her toast precisely into quarters.†   (source)
  • November the fifth, to be precise.†   (source)
  • SCORPIUS: At this precise moment in time, I take no pleasure in being right.†   (source)
  • One hand to be precise.†   (source)
  • And you can never measure them precisely enough.†   (source)
  • The balance wheel rocked back and forth precisely.†   (source)
  • I noted the precision of his moves—the way he neatly opened the box of spaghetti before setting it aside and the way he worked the spatula in careful right angles as he browned the meat.†   (source)
  • Every night after dinner, like clockwork, Harold would always pull out an old Western paperback and smoke his Camel cigarettes before going to bed precisely at 9:00 P.M. I respected Harold so much, although he never knew.†   (source)
  • Wrist banging, to be precise.†   (source)
  • I turned my attention away from the woman heckling me as the soldiers paraded down the aisle with military precision.†   (source)
  • It was blocky, unadorned, and cut with unyielding precision.†   (source)
  • 300 WinMag, a bolt-action, precision sniper weapon that belonged to my platoon chief.†   (source)
  • I am the bënduka, the single word that describes me precisely: someone who is bent sideways and walks slowly.†   (source)
  • There was a sharp, precise hiss of air.†   (source)
  • Precisely.†   (source)
  • , "Precisely.†   (source)
  • You aren't precisely right, though.†   (source)
  • He had the receivers run short routes timed precisely to the steps of the quarterback.†   (source)
  • But the sentiment is precise.†   (source)
  • But I felt the emotions precisely.†   (source)
  • I was in and of beauty and at that precise moment a doe, a white-tailed deer, exploded out of some willows on the left side of the team, heading down the bank toward the lake.†   (source)
  • Precisely what Booth told Cox on the front porch and during the next few hours they spent together in the house — remains a mystery.†   (source)
  • This was not precisely accurate.†   (source)
  • Precisely.†   (source)
  • I should have been more precise.†   (source)
  • A: He wasn't precise about it.†   (source)
  • Father with thirty watches spread out before him was marking in a little notebook in his precise, beautiful script: "two seconds lost,"†   (source)
  • But that is precisely why I needed to talk to you.†   (source)
  • "One that does precisely what it's designed to do.†   (source)
  • In the accompanying letter, Martha wrote that she had found the pebble on the Jersey shoreline, precisely where the land touched water at high tide, where things came together but also separated.†   (source)
  • The Rat Thing is precise.†   (source)
  • His words cut through all the snake oil of the last few hours, calmly and with great precision.†   (source)
  • It has occurred to me that the catlike precision of her movements in old age might be the result of her early training, but she shows so little of the drama or flair one might expect from a performer that I tend to forget the Flying Avalons.†   (source)
  • Lemry may be gone, but her memory lives on through precise and voluminous workout notes, and Mr. Billings was up to the task of carrying them out to the letter.†   (source)
  • Slowly, gradually, precisely.†   (source)
  • So he shut himself up in the chamber where he worked magic for three days and three nights and made a woman out of flowers — the flowers of oak and broom and meadowsweet, to be precise.†   (source)
  • This, to them, rivaled the precision and logic of mathematics.†   (source)
  • Precisely tell me precisely what my niece said, she demanded.†   (source)
  • "Precisely," said Jace.†   (source)
  • And yet what precisely is this 'greatness'?†   (source)
  • More precisely, he stared through me.†   (source)
  • This humanitarian report was illustrated by a small map showing the precise borders of the ghetto.†   (source)
  • That is why his name is Immanuel, God with us, or God with you, to be more precise.†   (source)
  • This is what I'm thinking about while I'm unloading the dishwasher, with great care and precision, because Evie is napping and the clatter of cutlery against crockery might wake her up.†   (source)
  • I walk down the hall, setting my feet precisely on the tile. careful, careful, not to slip, not to fall, not to run while they are watching.†   (source)
  • The engraving precise.†   (source)
  • It lasted fifty-five seconds, to be precise.†   (source)
  • Then again, this is precisely the kind of attention I'd hoped Nathaniel's story would attract.†   (source)
  • Everything I do takes planning and precision and discipline.†   (source)
  • His instructions to the inspector and the intern were precise and rapid.†   (source)
  • Precisely!†   (source)
  • The tumor had so many abnormal blood vessels coming to and going from it that I had to use a microscope to see precisely where the tumor began so I could remove it.†   (source)
  • Handle precision parts gently.†   (source)
  • With its unfamiliar gemstones, John's description is so exotic to us that we have to look up the minerals to find out what colors he was talking about; grown-up theologians want to be precise.†   (source)
  • It is precisely what I seek to point out.†   (source)
  • Precisely.†   (source)
  • A cat, perhaps, who will love her order, precision, and constancy; who will be as clean and quiet as she is.†   (source)
  • Then I folded the linen napkin and laid it between my lips and brought my lips down on it precisely.†   (source)
  • She felt herself touched by guilt from time to time, although she was unsure what precisely was making her guilty.†   (source)
  • It may interest you to know, Sayuri-san, that you are precisely the sort of young girl he likes best.†   (source)
  • He, as usual, spoke precisely.†   (source)
  • Without Timothy's eyes, I was finding that in my world, everything had to be very precise; an exact place for everything.†   (source)
  • Not because they hadn't followed doctors' orders, but precisely because they had.†   (source)
  • He was a precise man.†   (source)
  • Precisely.†   (source)
  • That continuous, unnamed ache I had been living with was precise and definable now.†   (source)
  • Powerful floodlights, precision arm.†   (source)
  • Precisely so.†   (source)
  • Precisely—slim to none.†   (source)
  • He could make a tree fall precisely where he wished.†   (source)
  • The realization grew that Moody had planned this morning's events with a degree of precision.†   (source)
  • "Girls, take the keys and get in the car," Alex orders, his tone precise.†   (source)
  • Or, more precisely, his fantasies.†   (source)
  • He had assumed precisely the opposite.†   (source)
  • Precisely.†   (source)
  • I watched in fascination as he let the mouse go three or four times, rolling it around with crisp, playful precision until he finally snatched it up and throddled it down his throat, the tail churning around his mouth.†   (source)
  • "Precisely," smiles August.†   (source)
  • Unwrapping the blanket to count fingers, eyes, ears, and toes, Finding all twenty-four, precisely where they ought to be.†   (source)
  • They stand poker-straight, scims hanging at precise 45-degree angles on their backs, boots spit-shined, faces blank as stone.†   (source)
  • Precise, automatic gesture.†   (source)
  • It was a precision flying squadron of fighter jets, performing at an air show miles away in Atlanta.†   (source)
  • The world is so precise, so rich.†   (source)
  • Rabbits, of course, have no idea of precise time or of punctuality.†   (source)
  • It was precisely this kind of special attention paid to them.†   (source)
  • Liam's handwriting was neat and precise, and, surprisingly, so was Zu's.†   (source)
  • And my hair, without the clear, even part that I worked so hard for every morning, drawing a comb down the center with mathematical precision, was loose and falling over my shoulders, softening my features.†   (source)
  • I doubt that I shall ever bring up underneath any precise label, and yet some people would think it egotistical that I insisted upon being a class to myself.†   (source)
  • The next morning, as is my usual habit, I woke up precisely at 5:00 a.m. I have done this for years without the aid of an alarm clock.†   (source)
  • The flames were driving thither with demon precision.†   (source)
  • After a skinny-dip, Nora dared me—double-dog-dared me, to be precise—to jump off the falls, which were at least thirty-five feet high.†   (source)
  • The precisely cut runes of Hephestia's mark swung first toward me and then away.†   (source)
  • The timing had to be precise.†   (source)
  • Yes, gentlemen, that is precisely what I am considering doing.†   (source)
  • Joseph C. Mobley, to be precise.†   (source)
  • In short, rape becomes a tool of war in conservative societies precisely because female sexuality is so sacred.†   (source)
  • In every case, the horse had worked precisely at 8:00.†   (source)
  • The first is to support combat operations by delivering precision fire on selected targets from concealed positions.†   (source)
  • Very precise.†   (source)
  • And it is precisely that respect for individual human dignity that characterizes our Constitution and our willingness to help those who cannot defend themselves.†   (source)
  • Every movement was performed to perfection, every detail demonstrated with precision.†   (source)
  • He aligned it precisely.†   (source)
  • Rodocker was a precise man.†   (source)
  • Now his selfhood would consist of integer in a precision-tooled, many-faceted human war machine.†   (source)
  • "I know precisely what time it is!" he snapped.†   (source)
  • Despite my being under the sheets, he managed to locate the precise placement of my ear.†   (source)
  • When we get inside, everything happens almost precisely as it did the week before.†   (source)
  • Precisely.†   (source)
  • The man is taller, thinner and precise—a British martinet.†   (source)
  • The killer was choosing his victims with careful precision.†   (source)
  • 'Ah, yes, that's it, precisely!' she said with reverential awe.†   (source)
  • The picture captures precisely the reality the painter witnessed in Clara's house.†   (source)
  • Orr asked at precisely that moment, as though by protective instinct.†   (source)
  • "Precisely because I'm not Amma, and I'm not Uncle Macon.†   (source)
  • Others let them drift with the current and sometimes they were at sixty . fathoms when the fishermen thought they were at a hundred But, he thought, I keep them with precision.†   (source)
  • I decided to figure out precisely what he meant.†   (source)
  • He was a small man and precise in his way of opening car doors and tucking a blanket around me.†   (source)
  • "Vampires can't tell who it is we sense or precisely where they are, only how far away from us they're located and how many there are."†   (source)
  • Carefully, I lifted each piece of clothing and folded it with embarrassing precision.†   (source)
  • He kept precisely to her specifications.†   (source)
  • What bill are you talking about, precisely?†   (source)
  • Precisely!†   (source)
  • That's precision.†   (source)
  • And I can peg the precise night I turned into one.†   (source)
  • We aren't precisely sure.†   (source)
  • At first I thought I was looking at a magazine advertisement of a painting—the detail was that precise.†   (source)
  • Very technical and precise.†   (source)
  • Lanier was blunt but precise.†   (source)
  • Its six hundred-foot tall silos held the powders of aluminum-silicate, soda ash, limestone and silica sand, which were mixed in precise ratios called batches.†   (source)
  • Precisely the opposite's the case.†   (source)
  • Carefully and precisely.†   (source)
  • Very good, we favor precision in our leaders.†   (source)
  • The machine would not, of course, give the precise order of amino acids.†   (source)
  • Again, he was a man who loved precision in everything.†   (source)
  • "That's not precisely accurate.†   (source)
  • I couldn't precisely recall.†   (source)
  • "Be precise," he added.†   (source)
  • For the precision of her blue pencil, I am indebted to Lisa R. Lester.†   (source)
  • To be precise, he'd thought a lot about Annie and the sadness in those eyes of hers.†   (source)
  • I couldn't say precisely.†   (source)
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