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Example sentences for "precisely"

Lexicographically close words:
precipitations; precipitous; precipitously; precisamente; precise; preciseness; precisians; precision; preciso; precium
  1. The effect at the growing zone is precisely the opposite to that at the tip, i.

  2. But in a sub-tonic tissue, stimulus induces an effect which is precisely the opposite; instead of a depletion, there is an enhancement of potential energy of the system.

  3. Stimulus, on the other hand, induces precisely the opposite effect.

  4. I shall in this connection show that a precisely opposite movement of closing is induced in Nymphaea under similar rise of temperature.

  5. In experimenting with roots of various plants I obtained results which are precisely similar to that of the shoot.

  6. Effects precisely the opposite are found with the leaflets of Biophytum and Averrhoa.

  7. The effect of anode was precisely the opposite; the induced expansion was exhibited either by reduction of normal limit of systolic contraction, or by arrest of pulsation at diastole.

  8. An identical stimulus may sometimes induce one effect, and at other times, the precisely opposite.

  9. In Averrhoa carambola the movement is downwards, whichever side is illuminated with strong light; in Mimosa leaflet the movement, under similar circumstances is precisely in the opposite direction.

  10. The effect induced by stimulus of light is transmitted to a distance, in a manner precisely the same as in other modes of stimulation.

  11. The responses of the root, to both direct and indirect stimulations, are precisely similar to those in the shoot.

  12. In the Senate, the slave States have precisely as many as the free; and in the lower House, their members are 65 per cent.

  13. The capitalists north of Mason and Dixon's line, have precisely the same interest in the labor of the country, that the capitalists of England have in their labor.

  14. The meaning of the word Nazarite is 'one separated or consecrated,' and this is precisely the meaning of taboo.

  15. In precisely the same way the mandrake* root, being thought to resemble the human body, was supposed to be of wondrous medical efficacy, and was credited with human and super-human powers.

  16. And it is precisely to relieve the burden on middle class families that we still need health insurance reform.

  17. But it's precisely such politics that has stopped either party from helping the American people.

  18. Stooping over it, and looking upward, you see an abyss of precisely the same shape over head; a fact which indicates that it began in the upper region, and was merely interrupted by this chamber.

  19. It contains a rock shaped like an anvil, with a small inky current running near it, and quantities of coarse stalagmite scattered about, precisely like blacksmith's cinders, called slag.

  20. Its coloring is rich and varied, while its state of ruin is precisely that in which the eye of the painter delights, sufficient to destroy all hardness or angularity, yet not so great as to rob it of one element of grandeur.

  21. And in reply to a letter asking aid in paying off a church debt he replies:-- "I am sorrowfully amused at your appeal to me, of all people in the world the precisely least likely to give you a farthing.

  22. I found its success with the public to be precisely in proportion to the impression it made upon her.

  23. The face of George Sand has precisely the character of Grecian regularity.

  24. I have already expressed my opinion of this unfortunate connection, but I most emphatically declare my belief that the redeeming point in it is precisely this which caused the scandal.

  25. Immediately Marshall Hamilton leaped from the car, ran forward, and precisely as Blagden had done, began hastily to examine Stoat's clothing.

  26. They are thoroughly reliable, and the office is precisely the right size.

  27. Quotation after quotation came whirring forth from the busy machine, and then, all at once, appeared a heavy block of Union Pacific, the figures tallying precisely with the symbols they had learned.

  28. That," responded Atherton, "is precisely what I should like to know.

  29. They stood gazing at each other, and at precisely the same moment both of them began to grin.

  30. Atherton shuddered, for by coincidence this was precisely the point at which his stop order would be reached.

  31. This is precisely what took place in Ireland.

  32. Precisely similar convictions were common all over Europe.

  33. And this took place precisely at the time when the Irish grip on Britain was relaxing.

  34. The table of Commandments is with the Cornish not precisely that of Moses.

  35. I had hit precisely on the time and train whereby a number of English officers, just landed from the Soudan at Plymouth, were dispersing to their homes.

  36. In my own neighbourhood, in or about 1852, a precisely similar exhibition took place.

  37. These trees where dancing took place are precisely the May-pole in a more primitive form.

  38. In this case the experience has been precisely the same as that of the mixed schools and colleges of the United States.

  39. There is vigour and go in their songs, but no sweetness; ruggedness, no smoothness at all; and it is precisely this latter quality that marks the Cornish and Devonshire airs.

  40. What precisely was in her thoughts who shall say, when she could not have told herself?

  41. Whether Malcolm, after a year's theatre going, would have said precisely the same is hardly doubtful.

  42. He could tell precisely where the shells should fall.

  43. The situation is precisely the reverse, if he is correctly quoted by my uncle.

  44. Every part of Ireland was filled at this time with characters, both male and female, precisely similar to old Nell M'Collum.

  45. For the slender recurved bracts of the teazel heads are stiff and prickly enough to roughen thoroughly the nap of the cloth, yet they yield at precisely the right point to keep from injuring the fabric.

  46. Her home was remote from the Norwich home of Mrs. Lathrop, and I know she never visited in Connecticut, yet she made precisely the same designs and indeed all the designs.

  47. Ever since the township was thickly settled enough for families to have any winter communication with each other, whether for school, church, mail, or doctor, this road has been broken out in precisely this same way.

  48. I see in many men an excessive impulse and delight in wanting to be a function; they strive after it, and have the keenest scent for all those positions in which precisely they themselves can be functions.

  49. It is precisely here that the popular belief in something superhuman in man, in a miracle, in the saving God in man, has its most subtle and insidious advocate.

  50. In this absence of conditions her love is precisely a faith: woman has no other.

  51. One generally looks at the matter in a different manner: one is accustomed to see the impelling force precisely in the aim (object, calling, &c.

  52. It was precisely his delight that she seemed so fitful and absolutely incomprehensible!

  53. Hence the strange fact that most nations have the most rigid system of slavery precisely at the time that the soil produces food most readily.

  54. Precisely so, too, if each person were to come and take his own portion (anarchy!

  55. It is precisely this class which first comes to an understanding of the essential nature of the change effected.

  56. The fear of seeing one’s condition grow worse, through want of industry, exerts an influence precisely similar to the hope of improving it.

  57. Precisely as there are more people ruined by spirituous liquors than by bread.

  58. On it, ancient and feudal society was based; and “precisely against this old patriarchal constitution, modern democracy protests and revolts.

  59. Besides, it is evident, that, of statistics in general, economic statistics constitute a chief part, and precisely the part most accessible to numerical treatment.

  60. It is precisely thus that anatomy proceeds, dissecting each member of the human frame, separating the bones, ligaments and muscles from one another, thus becoming the necessary preparatory school to physiology.

  61. In a precisely similar manner, the student of public economy (politics, the philosophy of law etc.

  62. Against adopting piece wages in the case of state officials, it may be further urged that no case at law, no act of public life is precisely similar to any other.

  63. It is here precisely as it is in agriculture, which is more productive where the seed returns several times in a year (several crops(576)) to the hand of the peasant than it is where this happens only once.

  64. Precisely the same thing happened right now when you turned your finger round and round to imitate the motion of the root.

  65. The negation of the individual factors must be so very decided, precisely in order to give emphasis to the affirmation of the whole.

  66. Indeed the beauty of all the higher activity of man is precisely the fact, that ends which the individual never even thinks of are attained thereby.

  67. But it seems to me that it is precisely to exceptions of this sort that the poet must turn his attention, in order to show that they, as well as common-place events, have their origin in what is most genuinely human.

  68. An incident, comical in itself, belongs in this place because it throws a very clear light precisely on this point, so important for education.

  69. The limits of Judaea were never very precisely defined and--especially on the northern frontier--varied from time to time.

  70. He was wearing the new knickerbockers which he had ordered at Montreux, and which were of precisely the same vast check as had ornamented Denry's legs on the previous night.

  71. He had talked of the enterprise to all his tenants, for it was precisely with his tenants that he hoped to make a beginning.

  72. In the stable there was precisely room for Rajah, the mule, and the carriage, and when Denry entered to groom or to harness, something had to go out.

  73. The recollection that it was precisely Herbert Calvert whom he had supplanted in the supper-dance at the Countess of Chell's historic ball, somehow increased his confidence in his ability to manage the interview with brilliance.

  74. But he was still precisely the same Denry, though the youngest member of the council.

  75. He knew without the book precisely what Ruth owed, but the book kept him in countenance, supplied him with needed moral support.

  76. She had precisely the same high voice, and precisely the same efficient smile as she had employed to Denry, and these instruments worked marvels on Aldermen; they were as melting as salt on snow.

  77. I can get you an invitation, if you like," said Denry, glancing at the door precisely as he had glanced at the door before adding 2 to 7.

  78. He did not know precisely what was going to happen, but he knew that something was going to happen; for the sufficient reason that his career could not continue unless something did happen.

  79. That's precisely what you will succeed in doing.

  80. These words were spoken with a suggestion of mock modesty that had precisely the effect of a deliberate wink, and Mr. Haviland smiled and nodded his complete comprehension.

  81. This was precisely to young Briskow's liking, and soon they were speeding out to that road house mentioned earlier in the evening.

  82. In fine, they rely upon others to examine it; and they whose judgment they so blindly receive are precisely those persons upon whose opinions they should look with the most suspicion.

  83. If the Freethinker is blind or corrupted, by not knowing his duties which nature prescribes to him, it is precisely in the same way as the superstitious, whose invisible motives and sacred guides prevent him not from going occasionally astray.

  84. It is precisely the same with all our prejudices; those of religion have the most powerful hold of us.

  85. Their condition was precisely such as might have been predicted would exist under gentile institutions, and therefore presents nothing remarkable.

  86. Human experience furnishes no parallel of the growth of gentes and phratries precisely in this way.

  87. They did without experience precisely as the Romans did in creating two consuls instead of one, after they had abolished the office of rex.

  88. As such, the mark and the gau were the germs of the future township and county, precisely as the Athenian naucrary and trittys were the rudiments of the Cleisthenean deme and local tribe.

  89. A descriptive system precisely like the Aryan always existed both with the Turanian and the Malayan, not as a system of consanguinity, for they had a permanent system, but as a means of tracing relationships.

  90. Nothing precisely like this Roman organization, this Roman power, and the career of the Roman race, has appeared in the experience of mankind.

  91. In that case the office would pass, by election within the gens, from brother to brother, or from uncle to nephew, precisely as it did among the Aztecs, and never from father to son.

  92. It is precisely like the family among ourselves.

  93. The same thing precisely is found in the Australian organization upon sex.

  94. Other tribes in large numbers were standing in precisely the same relations in different parts of the continent without confederating.

  95. The differences between them are precisely those which would have been forced upon the gens by the exigencies of human progress.

  96. But Christianity, in its anthropomorphism, which is its strongest hold on faith and trust, insures for the individual man in a Divine Humanity precisely what friends might essay to do yet could do but imperfectly for him.

  97. The first--that one should be ready to do for his friends precisely what he would do for himself--is inadmissible.

  98. It was precisely a century since the Family had set out in its quest for that hundred square miles of land.

  99. The outward expression is most manifest, and to pass in and out along the lanes in front of the old houses inspires in one precisely those emotions which are aroused by a human crowd.

  100. This remark sounded very fine indeed, and Dorothy felt so pleased with herself for having made it that she went on to say, "And the truth of it is, you all argue precisely like a lot of little school-children.

  101. Of course you're all right, because it's precisely as if you were dancing on your hind feet.

  102. She was quite surprised to see that the elephant was no bigger than the sheep; and, as she looked about, it seemed to her, in the confusion, that all the animals in the room were of precisely the same size.

  103. They will do precisely what and all that is claimed for them.

  104. In no disease known to us are the symptoms precisely the same in every case.

  105. Nor is it possible again to dispute the fact that every nation, at some stage or other of its history, has attached to this cultus precisely that meaning which the Brahman now attaches to the Linga and the Yoni.

  106. And here we may also add that the etymology of Kinchahan, the name of the principal god of the Mayas and corresponding to Tonacatlcoatl of Mexico, is precisely the same as that of the latter.


  107. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "precisely" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    absolutely; accurately; alright; assuredly; bang; briefly; certainly; completely; dead; definitely; directly; distinctly; especially; even; exactly; expressly; exquisitely; faithfully; fine; flat; flush; full; good; indeed; just; letter; literally; minutely; naturally; nearly; nicely; oui; outright; particular; particularly; perfectly; plop; plumb; plump; plunk; positively; precisely; purpose; quite; rather; really; right; rigidly; rigorously; separately; sharp; similarly; slap; smack; specifically; square; squarely; straight; strictly; sure; surely; thus; truly; verbatim; very; yes


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    precisely because; precisely similar; precisely the same manner; precisely what