Sample sentences for METICULOUS

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treating details with great care

meticulous = treating details with great care

She is meticulous in her bookkeeping and at the end of the year she can tell the IRS where every dollar was spent.

meticulous = treats details with great care

The contents of the drawers were meticulously ordered, lingerie folded precisely, sweaters arranged according to color and material.
J.D. Robb -- Naked in Death

meticulously = in a manner treating details with great care

Rather than showing Dylan and Logan the proper way to do it—carefully and meticulously—I just let them have at it haphazardly.
Randy Pausch -- The Last Lecture

meticulously = in a manner that treats details with great care

Cooper unrolled an antique hand-drawn map of North America. While the eastern coast was meticulously detailed, the interior was nearly blank.
Henry H. Neff -- The Fiend And The Forge

meticulously = in a manner treating details with great care

Only five thousand to go—or four thousand, nine hundred and ninety to be exact, as Brother Leon pointed out in that fussy meticulous way of his.
Robert Cormier -- The Chocolate War

meticulous = treating details with great care

Only when they deviated from meticulous routine did they run the risk of losing something.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- One Hundred Years of Solitude

meticulous = treating details with great care

She'd seen mothers who'd taken meticulous care of themselves deliver stillborns, while crack addicts had healthy infants.
Jodi Picoult -- Nineteen Minutes

meticulous = treating details with great care

Despite Teabing's insistence that their investigation should be conducted meticulously, Sophie felt eager and pushed ahead of them,
Dan Brown -- The Da Vinci Code

meticulously = carefully with great attention to detail

My main concession to their regime was to grow a beard, which, frankly, spared me the meticulous task of a daily shave.
Khaled Hosseini -- And The Mountains Echoed

meticulous = requiring care and attention to detail

To ensure success, he paid meticulous attention to detail:
Jon Krakauer -- Into Thin Air

meticulous = treating details with great care

He appeared unwilling to risk even having an opinion, and to be at his ease only when he could furnish, with meticulous accuracy, some precise but unimportant detail.
Marcel Proust -- Swann's Way

meticulous = treating details with great care

Even Bram's most mundane ledgers and notes were treasured documents, meticulously preserved and jealously guarded by scholars who...
Henry H. Neff -- The Maelstrom

meticulously = in a manner that treats details with great care

I place my feet carefully, block out the rest of the world as I take meticulous aim. The first arrow tears through the side of the bag near the top, leaving a split in the burlap.
Suzanne Collins -- The Hunger Games

meticulous = precise (careful in every detail)

Meticulous records of the incidence of cancer were kept throughout the country, so he had no trouble finding out that Tereza's mother had never been suspected of having the disease nor had she even seen a doctor for over a year.
Milan Kundera -- The Unbearable Lightness of Being

meticulous = treating details with great care

He began a slow and meticulous examination of Leavitt.
Michael Crichton -- The Andromeda Strain

meticulous = treating details with great care

Nathaniel's clothes are neater and cleaner this time, his grooming more meticulous.
Steve Lopez -- The Soloist

meticulous = treating details with care

meticulously = in a manner treating details with great care

Meticulously I had changed the oil and attended to the greasing.
John Steinbeck -- Travels with Charley

meticulously = in a manner that treated details with great care

The meticulous maps, drawn in three colors of ink,
Maya Angelou -- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

meticulous = carefully detailed

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