Sample sentences for EXHAUSTIVE

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Definition

very thorough or complete

an exhaustive study

this opportunity which my exhaustive investigation has shown to be...
William Faulkner -- The Sound and the Fury

exhaustive = very thorough or complete

There, my research was exhaustive.
Nicole Krauss -- The History of Love

exhaustive = very thorough or complete

The patient and I then plunged into a discussion of his case, of which I took exhaustive notes.
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan -- Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
"Even that explanation is hardly exhaustive," observed the criminal expert.
Chesterton, Gilbert K. -- The Man Who Knew Too Much
he said, his one exhaustive comment on human enterprise, adventure, war, and the chapter of accidents that had entangled him.
Wells, H.G. -- The War in the Air
And I was not unready for the remark which followed a more exhaustive scrutiny than I had hitherto sustained.
Hornung, E. W. -- A Thief in the Night
See," continued the Vicar, opening several small drawers, "I fancy I have made an exhaustive study of the entomology of this district.
Eliot, George -- Middlemarch
One proceeds on what I will call the exhaustive system of reasoning.
Collins, Wilkie -- My Lady's Money
When one's knowledge is exhaustive, one comes to other conclusions.
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan -- The Lost World
The brass stair-rods received an exhaustive polishing and were returned to their places.
Twain, Mark -- A Tramp Abroad
She stood over Kim till they went down, and inquired exhaustively after they had come up.
Rudyard Kipling -- Kim
He is exhaustively searched before being let into the visitors' area.
Wes Moore -- The Other Wes Moore
Press coverage had been exhaustive, taking up most of the front page of the daily newspapers.
Erik Larson -- The Devil in the White City
At this point Ippolit Kirillovitch broke off to discuss exhaustively the suspected connection of Smerdyakov with the murder.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- The Brothers Karamazov
He went on to compile an exhaustive brief on the case to bring the new counsel up to date.
Alexs Pate -- Amistad
In anticipation of that day, Valborg Svensson had laid exhaustive plans.
Ted Dekker -- Black: The Birth of Evil
It was not until his adventures had been exhaustively analyzed that the bald man began to withdraw from Eragon's mind.
Christopher Paolini -- Eragon
The Savak is engaged at this very moment in an exhaustive search through the archives.
Tim O'Brien -- Going After Cacciato
How exhaustive and unpleasant such a process would be, he saw even more vividly after his two hours' talk with poor Dorset.
Edith Wharton -- The House of Mirth

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