adverb
definition
(manner) without approximation; precisely.
example
He divided the coins exactly in half.
definition
(focus) Used to provide emphasis.
example
He did it that way exactly to prove the point.
interjection
definition
Signifies agreement or recognition.
example
So you're saying that we have only three days left? — Yes, exactly!
Examples of exactly in a Sentence
They weren't exactly best of friends.
He knew exactly where to look.
What exactly do you all do there?
She quickly replaced the envelope with shaking hands, making sure it was in exactly the same position as she found it.
He knew exactly what he wanted and I told him we would buy it for him.
Write down exactly what you want.
You weren't exactly friendly.
And this could be exactly the right time.
Howie continued to tell all of us exactly what we did, relating our deeds and writings with absolute perfection.
What exactly do you want from us?
It was exactly how she felt.
She said the poor young girl talked and acted exactly like a little child.
Together we paced out our quarters carefully and committed to memory exactly where everything was located.
Now, I'm sure you see the necessity of doing exactly what I say.
On the other hand, putting up with his volatile moods wouldn't be exactly easy.
What if you knew exactly what to plant, when to plant it, when to harvest it?
We wouldn't exactly be alone.
But what exactly are we going to do?
This is exactly the sort of thinking that makes nation-states useful.
Exactly opposite Weyrother, with his glistening wide-open eyes fixed upon him and his mustache twisted upwards, sat the ruddy Miloradovich in a military pose, his elbows turned outwards, his hands on his knees, and his shoulders raised.
Ah, I also wanted to ask you where our position is exactly? said Pierre.
My guess is that he meant exactly what he said.
I will spare my readers a description of this other than to say it is exactly what it sounds like.
Yancey was an attentive date, always knowing exactly what to say and do.
You did exactly what she did.
Standing at the mailbox, it occurred to her that the red flag would be exactly that for Yancey.
But this one knows exactly what I need to!
This tendency to only be able to see new technology as an extension of the old is exactly the phenomena we have seen with the Internet.
What if the farmer could give every stalk of corn individual attention and water and fertilize each one exactly when it was needed?
This is exactly the kind of problem geneticists can sink their teeth into, so to speak, to make the protein in this grain digestible.
You must want more from us; at least knowledge of whom we are and what exactly we do and how we do it.
What exactly did he say?
The operation was carried out exactly as ordered.
All the piglets are exactly alike, so no one can dispute your word.
Each time the commander started and bent forward, the hussar started and bent forward in exactly the same manner.
Berg drove up to his father-in-law's house in his spruce little trap with a pair of sleek roans, exactly like those of a certain prince.
Hospitals clean up real well and we weren't exactly Johnnie-on-the-spot getting there.
He knew exactly what he was doing.
But we're not sure it was a kidnapping exactly.
We didn't exactly hit it off.
She wasn't exactly afraid of him, but she didn't want to be out there in the woods alone with him either.
No man ever filled a typical position more exactly than Paley.
The first, for a memoir on the construction of a clepsydra for measuring time exactly at sea, he gained at the age of twenty-four; the second, for one on the physical cause of the inclination of the planetary orbits, he divided with his father; and the third, for a communication on the tides, he shared with Euler, Colin Maclaurin and another competitor.
I find in one of them, a letter to Mr. Anagnos, dated September 29, 1891, words and sentiments exactly like those of the book.
Prince Bagration bowed his head as a sign that this was exactly what he had desired and expected.
I saw him lying on a bed," said she, making a gesture with her hand and a lifted finger at each detail, "and that he had his eyes closed and was covered just with a pink quilt, and that his hands were folded," she concluded, convincing herself that the details she had just seen were exactly what she had seen in the mirror.
Let's hope not because he'll try to take advantage of that and do his deeds where you can't pin-point the abduction exactly.
He'd said she had a chance not only to leave, but also to help save Gabriel's life, if she did exactly as Darkyn said.
She hated that he'd always known exactly what to say to get to her.
Deidre had no idea what to say and even less of an idea what exactly happened when the deal was over.