How to use "exactly" in a sentence

Before starting this trip, I forgot to leave a message telling anyone exactly where I was going

But I didn't tell anyone exactly where I was going, so it will take the police days to find me

2.45 pm It's exactly twenty-four hours since the accident.

It has arrived at exactly the same time as yesterday.

I've been here for exactly forty-eight hours

He didn't say where, exactly.'

I know exactly what I've done

It's exactly 8.00 am and all I have to drink now is urine.

I realise that my nightmare has lasted for exactly 127 hours

The piece of bloodstained apron fitted exactly into a missing section of the victim's apron

Suddenly, at exactly six o'clock, the door into the Jondrettes' room opened.

'Well, what is it exactly that you want?'

Ten minutes exactly

And Gerry understands better than most people exactly how true that is.

"Court reporter" sounds good; it sounds important, and that is exactly how he describes it to any girl that asks

Where exactly is this suitcase?"

The skin is raw, and he tries to remember exactly what happened last night, but he cannot

What did he do last night? He tries to remember, he tries to remember exactly what happened

I know exactly what to do."

The headmaster, Mr Bowen, does not exactly look happy, but he looks content

He tries to remember exactly what happened

For the first time in many years Owen and Junior seem to be exactly what they are: father and son

And for a while they walk, and he is happy about how carefully Junior holds the gun and how he listens and does exactly what he should

It was March 15, and she had been going out with Cham for exactly one year

But afterward, you were still in the city in a tiny room, surrounded by thousands of other people doing exactly the same thing

This was such an intelligent, sensitive creature, who seemed to know exactly who she was.

"Like what? Like what, exactly?"

When they had talked about it before, she had felt left out; not jealous, exactly, because she was sure that she didn't want to join them

I was not exactly a servant and certainly not a friend.

Everything was exactly as before

Hundreds of them were brought in from the garden and Mrs Danvers knew exactly how to arrange them

Yes, her dress was exactly like mine and she had the same curled hair

It was exactly what Rebecca wore at the last Fancy Dress Ball here

'Mr de Winter, I want to find out exactly how your late wife died

At nine o'clock exactly, Frank brought up Colonel Julyan in his car.

I remember her words exactly

His clothes weren't the only things that she had kept: His entire room was exactly as he had left it

"The guy sits down to play cards and gets so involved he loses track of time, which is, of course, exactly what the management wants him to do

As soon as I saw you, I knew everything was going to turn out exactly like I had it figured."

"Have the authorities ever figured out exactly why it happened?" Elliot asked.

They plugged it in and tried to get it to repeat what it had done earlier, but they had no luck; the machine behaved exactly as it was meant to behave.

In the process of trying to hurt his ex-wife, he'd waste several days of the court's time, and the end result would be exactly the same as if he'd never been given a chance to protest."

I'm not exactly an outsider

We just have to find out exactly why the Evans woman wants the grave reopened

These days, you're crazy if you open your door without knowing exactly who's on the other side of it."

He knew exactly what she meant, but he didn't want to think about it, because there was no way he could make sense of it

She wasn't exactly sure

"I thought that was exactly what you wanted to know."

Elliot, I know exactly what it is! Come on," she said excitedly

They are exactly what they appear to be!"

"Like the time he wanted to know exactly what his daddy did for a living

Obviously, like I told you, Danny isn't telepathic exactly

it's not exactly levelheaded stuff," Elliot said.

"That's exactly what I've been trained to do."

The night clerk at the rental agency, from whom they had signed out the car, had known exactly where Bellicosti's place was, and he had marked the shortest route on the free city map provided with the Chevy.

well, maybe Danny will find a way to show us exactly where he is."

But that was exactly what he heard

"Not exactly that."

"That's exactly how it strikes me

She began to wonder exactly what sort of little boy they were going to find at the top of the mountain.

"My sentiments exactly." He picked up the pistol

They stepped into a hallway exactly like the one they had left upstairs.

God knows, that's exactly what he tried to do

One day maybe he would be standing in a graveyard, before the tombstone of one of his victims, and the person he had killed would reach out to him from beyond and let him see, in some vivid clairvoyant fashion, exactly what death was like

What could be the reason for such a terrible crime? What had led up to it? Just exactly what had happened?

Please do exactly what I ask

'I want to know exactly what happened,' I said as he closed the door after me

'What happened exactly?'

'But Mrs Protheroe did exactly the same.'

'It seems to fix the time of his death exactly,' I said

'Do you mind, Mrs Protheroe, just showing us exactly what you did?' Inspector Slack pushed open the glass doors, and she stepped outside and walked round the house to the left

'Is that exactly what you did?' Colonel Melchett asked her.

'But can you tell me exactly what was said?'

'Not exactly

'But, of course, she can't have telephoned Mrs Price Ridley and shot Colonel Protheroe at exactly the same time,' he continued

Colonel Protheroe had arrived at a quarter past six exactly

It was a blue earring, and I remembered exactly where I had last seen it.

They left at just after nine o'clock, and at half-past nine exactly, there was a little knock on my study window, and I opened the glass door for Miss Marple to come in.

The coincidence was that the call was made at exactly the same time as the pretend shot from the wood

I am listing these exactly because we lived on this food for the next fortnight.

Then I heard a noise exactly like the sound of big guns

We did exactly that

If she had one of those university boys for a boyfriend, wouldn't he come and take her home every evening? Certainly, Joe would love to do exactly that - with his taxi

and they would drive to exactly where the sea and the sand meet.

If I were Mercy, I am sure that's exactly what I would do

She isn't as pretty, but her hair, eyes, and figure are exactly like Laura's.'"

There stood Miss Fairlie, alone outside in the moonlight, looking exactly like the woman in white! I suddenly realised that the 'something missing' was this: my realisation of the disturbing similarity between the fugitive from the asylum and my student at Limmeridge House.