How to Use to be exact in a Sentence

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  • Forty-nine days, to be exact, and 34 games of the Rangers’ season in total.
    — Shawn McFarland, Dallas News, 6 Sep. 2023
  • It's been a while (2 years to be exact), but The Wheel of Time is finally back.
    — Milan Polk, Men's Health, 1 Sep. 2023
  • It’s been a long road for its owners — four years, to be exact — just to get the place up and running.
    — Ryan Slattery, Travel + Leisure, 2 Sep. 2024
  • Then, May’s images showed a crater — the Nightingale Crater, to be exact.
    — María Luisa Paúl, Washington Post, 3 Oct. 2023
  • The statue is ninety-eight feet tall, to be exact, and its arms stretch 92 feet wide.
    — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 10 June 2023
  • More than half of the episodes of this first season take place in the South, Texas and South Carolina to be exact.
    — Rebecca Angel Baer, Southern Living, 27 Sep. 2024
  • Father’s Day is right around the corner — June 18, to be exact.
    — Esther Carlstone, Peoplemag, 12 June 2023
  • Not expected to be exact, but more of an overall theme for the day.
    — Amanda Kaufman, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Aug. 2023
  • There are eight breweries to be exact, all waiting to quench your thirst with a cold craft beer.
    — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 10 May 2024
  • Delta Air Lines has its Comfort+ section with extra legroom, a 34-inch seat pitch to be exact.
    — Ryan Erik King / Jalopnik, Quartz, 7 Feb. 2024
  • The network says more than half of the CBS audience — 52 percent, to be exact — is new to the series.
    — Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Oct. 2023
  • Curve models were included in the show—three to be exact.
    — Kerane Marcellus, Essence, 8 Dec. 2023
  • What’s more, Amazon Prime members can score the sneakers for even less right now ($23, to be exact).
    — Clara McMahon, Peoplemag, 4 Aug. 2023
  • More than half of young people want to be influencers — 57%, to be exact.
    — Gili Malinsky, CNBC, 14 Sep. 2024
  • John Hughes was from the suburbs: Northbrook, to be exact.
    — Daniel De Visé, USA TODAY, 18 June 2024
  • Eminem fans have been waiting quite some time to get a new album from the rapper — four years to be exact.
    — Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 12 July 2024
  • Ulta’s wide store distribution — 50 states to be exact — was a key draw for the pair.
    — Noor Lobad, WWD, 16 July 2024
  • The sushi tacos, seven to be exact, have a dedicated section on the menu.
    — Brianna Taylor, Sacramento Bee, 5 May 2024
  • There’s lush green hills of land—more than 1,800 acres to be exact—growing grapes for wine, olives for fresh oil, and produce for fine dining.
    — Essence, 13 Aug. 2024
  • The scene is from when Pryor’s Wiz is exposed as a fake, a phony…a former politician to be exact.
    — Raisa Habersham, Miami Herald, 2 May 2024
  • Ghosts are everywhere, 999 of them, to be exact, not counting the film’s big bad villain, the Hatbox ghost (Jared Leto).
    — Odie Henderson, BostonGlobe.com, 25 July 2023
  • Yet, new data from the St. Louis Fed finds that there’s still a lot more retirees than the Fed predicted: about 2 million, to be exact.
    — Bychloe Berger, Fortune, 11 Nov. 2023
  • Invest in the suit vest—Remain Birger Christen’s, to be exact.
    — Laura Jackson, Vogue, 29 June 2023
  • Donald Trump is guilty of many crimes (starting with at least 34 felonies, to be exact), and one of them is questionable taste in music.
    — Simon Vozick-Levinson, Rolling Stone, 12 Aug. 2024
  • Expand All Providence Road Sundries has been around a long time — 89 years to be exact.
    — Philip Freeman, Charlotte Observer, 24 Apr. 2024
  • The rosy, red sipper requires little to no forethought or time—just 10 minutes to be exact.
    — Karen Schroeder-Rankin, Southern Living, 2 July 2023
  • The site kicked off the massive savings event earlier than ever this year; one week ahead of schedule, to be exact.
    — Clara McMahon, Peoplemag, 18 Nov. 2023
  • And of course, there are plenty of pockets with this pair of pants—four regular and two cargo pockets, to be exact.
    — Chaunie Brusie, Rn, Parents, 13 Aug. 2024
  • To help achieve that, the brand rooted the gel-cream most of the formula — 89% to be exact — in skin care (it's powered by glycerin and squalane to moisturize and nourish).
    — Jackie Fields, Peoplemag, 22 Aug. 2023
  • No Zendaya look is complete without a pair of sky-high Christian Louboutins—tonight, a gold metallic pointy-toe to be exact.
    — Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 20 Oct. 2024

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