How to Use prerogative in a Sentence

prerogative

noun

• If you'd rather sell the tickets than use them, that's your prerogative.
• It's a writer's prerogative to decide the fate of her characters.
• The urge to move on is yours; the prerogative not to is theirs.
  — Washington Post, 28 June 2021
• In the end, the selections are the prerogative of the chair.
  — vanityfair.com, 19 Oct. 2017
• Refusal, like so much else, turns out to be the prerogative of men.
  — Claire Dederer, The Atlantic, 4 May 2021
• Such was the prerogative of a place home to so many of the nation’s leading financiers.
  — Sarah Schweitzer, The Atlantic, 15 Aug. 2019
• That’s your prerogative as an artist, to change your mind and do something else.
  — Gary Graff, cleveland, 21 Mar. 2022
• Some may not like it, and to be honest, that’s their prerogative.
  — Sydney Scott, Essence, 9 July 2019
• Steve just stands there lookin’ cute, as is his prerogative.
  — Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 2 July 2022
• Two such goods are child welfare and parental prerogatives.
  — David McGarry, National Review, 15 Aug. 2023
• But that didn’t give you the prerogative to try to replace her ticket with a worse one, whatever the cost was to you.
  — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 5 July 2023
• His life, his prerogative to live it within the bounds of small-er-ish paychecks.
  — Washington Post, 19 Apr. 2021
• Though poor choices, of course, are the prerogative — if not the main purpose — of a misspent youth.
  — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 31 July 2020
• That is her prerogative; judges have a wide range of discretion.
  — Areva Martin, Time, 26 Jan. 2018
• This young bride is exercising her prerogative to change her mind at the very last minute.
  — New York Times, 13 Nov. 2020
• Telling your daughter the truth was your prerogative and in the best interests of your family.
  — Washington Post, 20 Apr. 2022
• Wanting to live on the West Coast is a prerogative and a choice, not an insult.
  — Washington Post, 9 Feb. 2022
• There’s someone at the top who only thinks about money and that’s their prerogative.
  — Michaela Zee, Variety, 22 Nov. 2023
• Speaking up is both personal prerogative and a duty to the bond.
  — Washington Post, 28 June 2021
• As the best player in a league with overflowing revenues, that is his prerogative.
  — Zack Meisel, cleveland.com, 4 July 2017
• My role as the last surviving detective grants me the prerogatives of rank and the duty to ascribe epitaph.
  — James Ellroy, Vanities, 7 Oct. 2017
• Muschamp, exercising his coaching prerogative in a spring game, whistled the play dead as the ball hit the ground.
  — George Schroeder, USA TODAY, 5 Apr. 2018
• Some clients insist on saving for college and that is their prerogative.
  — WSJ, 6 July 2017
• But few leaders were willing to take aim publicly at a choice that is always the prerogative of the summit host nation.
  — Michael Birnbaum, Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2019
• That's their prerogative and there's a whole lot of different reasons why guys do that.
  — Ben Steele, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 19 Apr. 2022
• But this is a private entity taking the prerogative on its own.
  — Robert Gehrke, The Salt Lake Tribune, 1 Oct. 2021
• He’s also been clear that if members of the public don’t want to forgive him, that is their prerogative.
  — Jill Filipovic, CNN, 29 Nov. 2022
• Election timing is the prerogative of the prime minister and none need be held for about another year.
  — Isabel Reynolds, Bloomberg.com, 9 Sep. 2020
• Such confusion is certainly the prerogative of — and even welcomed in — a film as dense as this one.
  — Vulture, 20 July 2022
• That is his prerogative as a citizen of the United States.
  — David Streitfeld, New York Times, 1 June 2018

Last Updated: 28 Apr 2024