How to Use corrective in a Sentence

corrective

adjective

• She had corrective surgery on her knee this past summer.
• People with bad eyesight usually need to wear corrective lenses, such as eyeglasses or contact lenses.
• The speaker has no role in putting out any kind of corrective action.
  — CBS News, 20 Apr. 2023
• Neither hears the truth, as often as is wholesome, and both suffer for the want of the corrective.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 9 Oct. 2023
• The state and city negotiated the corrective plan that held off the threat of a total state takeover of BPS.
  — Adria Watson, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Sep. 2022
• In 2021, they were told to submit a corrective action plan.
  — Will McCarthy, The Mercury News, 25 Mar. 2024
• To me, the nightly BirdCast map is a corrective to our human-centric view of the planet.
  — Ty Burr, New York Times, 18 Apr. 2023
• To me, the nightly BirdCast map has come to mean a great deal, not least a corrective to our human-centric view of the planet.
  — Ty Burr, New York Times, 18 Apr. 2023
• Dan explored the idea of corrective surgery to fix his injured back but the results of those kinds of surgeries were often hit and miss.
  — Lucia Osborne-Crowley, refinery29.com, 6 Sep. 2022
• The texture of their lives offers a corrective to erasure.
  — Dara T. Mathis, The Atlantic, 13 Nov. 2023
• This would be a corrective to that, as well as a much-deserved coronation.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 11 Mar. 2023
• Runion said that even after corrective jaw surgery that cost tens of thousands of dollars, some of her teeth may still be at risk.
  — Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 7 Jan. 2024
• Instead, the officials funded some of the research that led to the corrective eye surgery technique.
  — Katie Hunt, CNN, 14 Sep. 2022
• Dean and Hines would not provide the further corrective action made by the district and Hamilton.
  — Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic, 30 Aug. 2022
• For the first six months of my life, specialists were focused on corrective measures that just weren’t working.
  — Hunter Woodhall and Rachel Chang, Travel + Leisure, 6 Feb. 2024
• The report did note that about 51% of corrective actions have been verified and addressed.
  — Dallas News, 26 Jan. 2023
• In 2013, the FDA closed out its review after Abiomed took corrective actions that appeared to address the concerns.
  — Peter Loftus, WSJ, 1 Nov. 2022
• The corrective actions are determined on a case-by-case basis.
  — Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 9 Nov. 2022
• But this could be a year when all these corrective efforts collapse under the weight of flaws in the underlying polling itself.
  — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 25 Oct. 2022
• The KPIs here are the corrective measures needed to pass an audit, the success rate with audit compliance and the time to achieve compliance.
  — Vince Arneja, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2023
• Our history is replete with their clear and corrective lessons, and is adorned by their vision of justice and freedom.
  — Peter J. Travers, National Review, 30 Dec. 2023
• What follows is a bit of a corrective; the true experiences of nine burners, from the newbies to the two-decade veterans, at Burning Man 2023.
  — Anya Kamenetz, Curbed, 14 Sep. 2023
• The social movements of the nineteen-fifties and sixties spawned their own, generally corrective takes on the nation’s past.
  — Jelani Cobb, The New Yorker, 29 Jan. 2023
• The trip is a corrective to Tsai's failing diplomatic strategy, said Hsiao Hsu-tsen, the head of Ma's foundation.
  — Meaghan Tobin, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Mar. 2023
• The trip is a corrective to Tsai’s failing diplomatic strategy, said Hsiao Hsu-tsen, the head of Ma’s foundation.
  — Meaghan Tobin, Washington Post, 27 Mar. 2023
• Publishers pledged to review all of her books and take corrective steps where necessary.
  — Corinne Purtill, Los Angeles Times, 8 Dec. 2023
• Metro is working with the safety commission on a corrective action plan.
  — Justin George, Washington Post, 10 June 2022
• The second incident led to 17 corrective actions that SpaceX needed to complete to earn its third launch license.
  — William Gavin, Quartz, 14 Mar. 2024
• Jonas told Stern in Monday's interview that her dad encouraged her to get corrective surgery.
  — Elise Brisco, USA TODAY, 4 May 2023
• This corrective formula for the eye area by HealGel is ideal for animal lovers among you.
  — Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune, 4 Oct. 2022

Last Updated: 3 May 2024