How to Use imprecise in a Sentence

imprecise

adjective
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  • It's an imprecise translation of the original sentence.
  • For humans, the sense of smell is a crude and imprecise tool.
    — Jack Gedney, The Mercury News, 11 Mar. 2024
  • The hosts made the most of the ball possession but were too imprecise with the final ball.
    — SI.com, 13 Dec. 2017
  • The technique was imprecise, and so were the schedules.
    — Jason Laughlin, Philly.com, 3 Nov. 2017
  • This is an imprecise way to assess the impact of trade deals on drug prices.
    — Amy Kapczynski, Foreign Affairs, 28 Oct. 2016
  • In Chatwood, the Dodgers faced one of the most imprecise pitchers in baseball.
    — Andy McCullough, latimes.com, 20 June 2018
  • The claim is too broad, too vague, too imprecise to be meaningful.
    — Rory Smith, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2020
  • In other words, the camera is looking with the imprecise eye of a doodle.
    — James Vincent, The Verge, 6 July 2018
  • But these labels are clumsy and imprecise—and getting more so all the time.
    — Joe Pinsker, The Atlantic, 14 Oct. 2021
  • The linkage is stiff and imprecise and undergoes as many jerks and seizures between throws as Mark Fidrych.
    — John Phillips, Car and Driver, 8 Aug. 2023
  • For many people, dealing with a dropper or a vape pen for CBD is too imprecise.
    — Michael Wright, Discover Magazine, 22 Oct. 2021
  • The show runs a half hour, well under the standard 50 minutes, and the choreography is a bit imprecise at times.
    — Jared Kaufman, Twin Cities, 7 Aug. 2024
  • And yet this process seemed, to him, alarmingly imprecise.
    — James Somers, The New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2019
  • Chiefs complained that pass-through traffic in many towns made the measure too imprecise to be useful.
    — Tom Condon, courant.com, 31 Jan. 2022
  • The downside is that this big-picture view is fairly imprecise.
    — Lois Parshley, Scientific American, 1 May 2018
  • At the time, glucose tests were imprecise and cumbersome.
    — Emily Langer, Washington Post, 5 May 2021
  • Maybe someone would apologize for the confusion or the imprecise wording of the law.
    — Jessica Contrera, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Feb. 2018
  • But between the flashes of brilliance with Porter are stretches of imprecise basketball, where Porter racks up both the turnovers and the early-shot-clock jumpers.
    — Michael Shapiro, Chron, 14 Mar. 2023
  • The animal-pelt overlay is applied in such a way that we are made aware of the cutting and pasting involved, the imprecise use of scissors, the shadow at the edges.
    — New York Times, 13 Oct. 2021
  • But those layers were imprecise and could not give a year-by-year reading of how much silver was being produced.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 16 May 2018
  • But even Strauss and Howe acknowledge that cycles are imprecise and that the crisis might not come for another few decades.
    — Peter Schwartz, WIRED, 1 Apr. 1997
  • The story is further complicated by our gauzy and imprecise view in the rear-view mirror.
    — Washington Post, 14 May 2021
  • The feature was hardly that, a display of imprecise punching and pawing.
    — USA TODAY, 14 Oct. 2017
  • Among the many complications of predicting an impact is that the study is so imprecise.
    — Popular Mechanics, 11 Nov. 2015
  • Until recently, imprecise barrel bombs as well as Russian airstrikes had done little to dislodge the rebels in the east.
    — Michael Jackson, Foreign Affairs, 7 Dec. 2016
  • Digital researchers and aid groups say free mapping tools like Google Earth are too imprecise.
    — Luiz Romero, Wired, 28 May 2021
  • At first, all the measurements were so imprecise that nobody worried.
    — Quanta Magazine, 13 Feb. 2018
  • But if Democrats get a pass to be imprecise when complaining about McConnell’s brazen scheme, what will happen to our democratic norms?
    — Margaret Hartmann, Daily Intelligencer, 28 June 2018
  • His passing against Kentucky was atrocious, imprecise and lacked touch.
    — Mike Bianchi, Orlando Sentinel, 11 Sep. 2022
  • Cowboy boot sightings are at an all-time high, by my own imprecise measurements.
    — Halie Lesavage, Harper's BAZAAR, 22 Aug. 2023

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