exacting

In a sentence

Six example sentences with exacting, each labelled with its topic.

• Laminated pastry is exacting work, since a kitchen two degrees too warm turns the butter into a greasy mess.

  Cooking

• The conductor is exacting about tempo, stopping the orchestra whenever the second violins drift by even a fraction.

  Music

• Chip fabrication is exacting enough that a single speck of dust can ruin a wafer worth thousands of dollars.

  Technology

• Fitting the glass roof was exacting work, since each pane had to meet its neighbor within two millimeters.

  Architecture

• Eye surgery is exacting enough that surgeons rest their wrists on supports and stop the moment their hands feel tired.

  Medicine

• The coach's exacting footwork drills demand that every pivot land on the same floor tile, ten times in a row.

  Basketball

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