His brief, hectic career had no time for meticulous polishing of lines; if the statue did not come out as at first he desired, he broke it rather than recast the metal.
So, when a great procession takes place, as at the Coronation festivities, the mostmeticulous organisation is necessary.
Now, the Talmud is not a law of righteousness for all mankind, but a meticulous code applying to the Jew alone.
He strikes the happy medium between brilliant facility and that meticulous and often nervously apprehensive mode which so frequently disgraces the work of modern stylists.
He enamelled his theme with the meticulouscare of a jeweller.
With meticulous care Webster went over Hamilton's reasoning to prove that Congress can "pass all laws 'necessary and proper' to carry into execution powers conferred on it.
At any rate, this was the principle which Mr. Simpson carried out in the most meticulous way.
Jenner's Legend of the isolation of the young Cuckoo in the nest," by Xavier Raspail, "Bull.
One must be rich in one's own nature, rich in will and in ability, to live apart and seek new paths in solitude, and it is not without reason that the majority prefer the turmoil of cities and the murmur of men to the silence of the country.
In one of his admirable little textbooks, intended to teach and to popularize science, he complacently enumerates the happy modifications effected by that "sublime magician," selection as understood by Darwin.
With such meticulous care was this done that the Battalion had not more than three cases of trench feet during the whole of that winter--a circumstance which reflects much credit on the men.
She opened the garret door, closed it with the same meticulous care.
To him it seemed a waste of time and money, but he followed the terms of his brother's will with meticulous care.
Mary Beatty was not helpful; middle-aged, with wasted youth behind her; she was even resentful that her meticulous housekeeping should be disturbed.
With meticulous stealth he passed through the gate, laid the baby on the doorstep, rang the bell long and determinedly, and then, with astonishing quiet and agility, hid himself in the midst of a clump of lilacs.
It was a slow, painstaking, meticulous task, requiring common sense, good judgment, a good sense for words and erudition.
This experience must have been etched upon Harvey's memory; no one can be more meticulous when his interest is aroused.
Like the wise general who raises a volunteer army he is not meticulous in the choice of his privates, providing they are capable of performing the tasks assigned to them.
He finished his last potato with meticulous diligence and then quickly rose and followed her into the studio where a transformation had already taken place.
The Duc had again developed a habit of meticulous inquiry; also, for reasons of his own, had reduced her allowance.
Where evidence warrants it corpses are subjected to microscopic and meticulous search to locate a hypodermic puncture.
He removed his glasses and wiped them slowly and carefully, polishing each lens with meticulous care.
We are of an age of uplift, and meticulous reform.
Failing this, he demands, if only as signs of modesty and respect on the part of the survivors, meticulous imitation.
There may seem to be something priggish in a meticulous discipline, but otherwise it is so easy to slip into indolent habits--and to be distracted from one's purpose.
Here again the careful and meticulous record-keeping of the Adjutant Schmundt has provided us with a document in his own handwriting, which lets the cat out of the bag.
The Germans were always meticulous record keepers, and these defendants had their share of the Teutonic passion for thoroughness in putting things on paper.
The apparatus had worked with meticulous exactness, and Evelyn Mansfield was avenged--at least in part.
I checked up Betty's "layout" and went over the decoding process with meticulous care.
Bent on clear and meticulous writing, he was very strict with his pupils and with himself, composing very little and working slowly, and, so to speak, under a microscope.
Its subtle and meticulous writing and its somewhat static character would not have lent themselves to stage action and the movements of dancing.
I was struck by the deep knowledge he had of the score in its smallest details, and by his meticulous study of every work which he undertook to conduct.
Bill Waters was no meticulous interpreter of English and slid a glass down the bar.
But the Nevada officials thought Cub Lee was too meticulous about keeping his word and Cub had a brief cooling off period in the pen.
We have only to think for a moment of the character and life of Christ in order to realize how ludicrously impoverished a conception of the Gospel righteousness is that which regards it as exhausted by the meticulous avoidance of sin.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "meticulous" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
