The terms are not usually used in a strict sense.

Since you can't tell these days: This is not, in the strict sense, true.

Despite his ego, he has a strict sense of justice.

They are not wealthy in the strict sense of the word.

Education, in the strict sense of the word, she had very little.

I'm not sure the claim was, in the strict sense of the word, true.

Students are not workers so in the strict legal sense they cannot strike.

In a strict sense this work belongs to the world.

So the children were not missing in the strict sense.

He found in his older friend's works a strict sense of organization.