dotting the i's
Example Sentences
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I remember signing “Laura” to multiple carbon-copy contracts using different signatures, dotting the i’s with hearts and stars …an exclamation point.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2023
"Were dotting the i's and crossing the t's and fingers crossed we'll be able to make an announcement in the forthcoming weeks."
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2022
‘Yeah, we will. I mean, we have it all done and it's just a question of dotting the i's and crossing the t's. Yes, we will, absolutely,’ Sanders said.
From Fox News ● Apr. 2, 2019
"She is definitely dotting the i's and crossing the t's in case the opportunity presents itself," he said.
From Reuters ● May 26, 2011
Osborne sate at a table near the fire, pen in hand, looking over one of his poems, and dotting the i's, crossing the t's, and now and then pausing over the alteration of a word.
From Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
