meticulous

In a sentence

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

• Meticulous to a fault, she numbers every negative, sleeves it, and logs the exposure time before leaving the darkroom.

  Photography

• The surgical checklist is meticulous to the point of tedium: every instrument counted aloud, twice, before the room is cleared.

  Medicine

• Meticulous restorers matched the mortar's color to nineteenth-century samples, then cut each replacement brick to the original hand-made dimensions.

  Architecture

• The pastry chef is meticulous, weighing the flour to the gram and checking the oven with two thermometers.

  Cooking

• Her meticulous bookkeeping matched every receipt to a bank line, so the tax audit ended in a single afternoon.

  Finance

• The scout's meticulous report listed which hand each opponent dribbles with under pressure and where they like to catch the ball.

  Basketball

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