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Example sentences for "precisely what"

  • But he did this hopelessly, bitterly aware that the outcome would be precisely what it eventually was, that is to say, nothing.

  • I liked it: you gave us precisely what we asked for.

  • I don't mind telling you now, that's precisely what I am afraid of.

  • The march of circumstances is precisely what it was in France, just previous to the French revolution.

  • The village of Selborne is precisely what it is described by Mr. White.

  • This is precisely what Janus would induce his readers to believe regarding the rights of the primacy.

  • And this is precisely what Janus would accomplish, even contrary to his own avowed intention.

  • The very feature that constitutes their character is precisely what is lacking in ours to make it complete; and what distinguishes us from them is precisely what they lack to be divine.

  • And this is precisely what distinguishes a soul of beauty from a sublime soul.

  • This is precisely what we should expect to find in the original returns, but it only creates a presumption; it does not afford a proof.

  • That's precisely what I told him this morning.

  • I expect that's precisely what she's asking him.

  • That's precisely what I've been asking myself ever since we landed in this God-forsaken swamp.

  • Yet this "back stroke" is precisely what is necessary in our reaction-experiment, for it is by virtue of this fact that the organization of the temporary reflex becomes a possibility.

  • For use of the given or finished to anticipate the consequence of processes going on is precisely what is meant by "ideas," by "intelligence.

  • It is precisely what it is and not some product of our after-thought that we are pleased to substitute for it.

  • That is precisely what it does mean," Mr. Croyden returned heartily.

  • That is precisely what I must do," declared the Doctor rising.

  • Without somebody to do precisely what he is doing we should get no satisfactory result.

  • That," replied Blythe, smiling his wide smile as he poured coffee for her, "is precisely what I am going to do.

  • That is precisely what I wish to find out.

  • Precisely what "Foggy's" business was it is difficult to say.

  • Precisely what to do Robert did not know.

  • Precisely what he said," answered Leslie, reluctantly.

  • A properly qualified doctor could soon say precisely what is wrong, and what would be the proper treatment to adopt.

  • You may laugh as much as you like, little girl, but that is precisely what I have done.

  • That, replies Brown, is precisely what we can do.

  • The 'calculation' is precisely what makes an action moral as well as accidentally useful.

  • That reveals to us the fact that there is something independent of ourselves, and the belief in such a something is precisely what we mean, and all that we mean, by the belief in an external world.

  • That is precisely what I wish him and all the world to think.

  • This shows you have a taste for it, and that is precisely what I wanted to find out.

  • And it would have been a grander speech if I'd stood quite sure as to precisely what it meant and what I intended to do.

  • I did it without giving much thought to precisely what I said or exactly how I phrased it, depending on my heart more than my brain to guide me in the way I should go.

  • I felt like saying that this was precisely what I had been giving him.

  • Feeling that suspense was for him the worst possible form of suffering I resolved to explain, so far as I was able, precisely what it was I feared, and how I proposed to prevent it.

  • That is precisely what I wish you to find out,--what I wish you to make it your instant business to ascertain.

  • Pardon me if I appear to flatly contradict you, but that is precisely what I do not know.

  • Well, but that's precisely what he did, Mr. Viner!

  • It would be precisely what it is under the flap of this envelope--there you are!

  • Precisely what I thought before and shall continue to think," retorted Viner.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "precisely what" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    aqua fortis; boundary agreement; divers sorts; east course; free from; good creature; great effort; military rule; moderate size; modern theology; national drama; nearly pure; precisely because; precisely similar; precisely the same manner; precisely what; published his; remarkable instance; she and; true greatness; two different; wise and; working drawings; would appreciate; written about