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very thorough or complete- an exhaustive study
- this opportunity which my exhaustive investigation has shown to be...William Faulkner -- The Sound and the Fury
- There, my research was exhaustive.Nicole Krauss -- The History of Love
- 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
exhaustive = very thorough or complete
exhaustive = very thorough or complete
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