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 Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn