How to use "exactly" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "exactly" in popular movie and book plots

  • Everyone eats "totalcakes", drinks "cokes", wears exactly the same thing and is satisfied – every day.  - This Perfect Day
  • Each year in the series takes place exactly 20 years before airing (1988 to 1993).  - The Wonder Years
  • Phil wakes to "I Got You Babe" and the same announcement from the radio, and soon discovers the day's events repeating exactly as before.  - Groundhog Day (film)
  • Something happened to her in Texas years earlier, but she refuses to say exactly what.  - Thelma & Louise
  • Pedott is a peddler who has the curious ability to give people exactly what they need before they need it.  - What You Need (The Twilight Zone)
  • He relates to Shapiro that he never knows exactly how to entertain an audience "short of faking my own death or setting the theater on fire".  - Man on the Moon (film)
  • Fate offers him a potion guaranteed to make the drinker the fastest gun in the West for exactly ten seconds.  - Mr. Denton on Doomsday
  • When the two return to Tsuzuki's estate, he rewards them with exactly what the spirit had predicted.  - Throne of Blood
  • Jake does not know how long he has been at the way station, nor exactly how he got there and hid when the Walter passed through.  - The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger
  • Again, to the narrator's surprise, the prince exclaims that this is exactly the picture he wanted.  - The Little Prince
  • In a situation exactly reversed from the book, she grows to enormous size after drinking the bottle's contents.  - Alice in Wonderland (1933 film)
  • Slim gives Curley an ultimatum: not to tell anyone what exactly happened.  - Of Mice and Men (1939 film)
  • In an arranged meeting without public she plays against Turati who does exactly what Luzhin expected and loses.  - The Luzhin Defence
  • McKay quietly asks Leech exactly what they proved by fighting.  - The Big Country
  • The excisemen and Maskew are aware of the planned smuggling run but do not know exactly where it will occur.  - Moonfleet
  • He had not understood exactly what happened but knew he had seen a man die.  - La Jetée

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