How to Use cherry-pick in a Sentence

cherry-pick

verb

• Many of his vetoes seemed to cherry-pick projects from longer lists.
  — Orlando Sentinel, The Orlando Sentinel, 1 July 2025
• Those who want to cherry-pick the deals before the crowds can enter early at 8 a.m. on Friday for $10.
  — Laura Daily and Bryan K. Chavez, Denver Post, 30 Apr. 2025
• Even the politicians who attended the rallies cherry-picked which parts to respond to.
  — Em Readman, refinery29.com, 7 May 2024
• Her job: monitoring Western broadcasts to cherry-pick news that showed the West in a bad light to air on the network’s shows.
  — Constant Méheut, New York Times, 24 Mar. 2023
• Our favorite way to play that growth isn’t by trying to cherry-pick which retailer will win at the online game.
  — Brett Owens, Forbes, 16 Oct. 2024
• Players from both teams cherry-picked at the offensive end of the court instead of getting back on defense.
  — Bennett Durando, The Denver Post, 17 Feb. 2025
• Players from both teams cherry-picked at the offensive end of the court instead of getting back on defense.
  — Bennett Durando, The Denver Post, 17 Feb. 2025
• Mid-major colleges will never keep their teams together and the big schools will cherry-pick the best players.
  — Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 2025
• There, shoppers could cherry-pick from different eras to curate their looks.
  — Boutayna Chokrane, Vogue, 30 Oct. 2023
• There are also specific savings on planned sailings, so peruse their site to cherry-pick the best deal and remember to read all the fine print.
  — Dan Koday, Travel + Leisure, 3 Dec. 2024
• Many Ivy League students have learned to cherry-pick easy-grading professors.
  — Karin Klein, The Mercury News, 13 Nov. 2024
• What to watch: The trend could widen health disparities as doctors flee to cash-pay businesses and cherry-pick patients.
  — Tina Reed, Axios, 7 Oct. 2024
• Threads is a brand extension versus a totally new product, and the early joiners (like me) were easy to cherry-pick at launch.
  — Jennifer Jolly, USA TODAY, 11 July 2023
• Programming isn’t only about cherry-picking the best film.
  — Zac Ntim, Deadline, 3 Nov. 2024
• Simply put, the princess-nail manicure uses the hallmarks of all of these styles and combines them together, cherry-picking the best of what each has to offer.
  — Fiona Embleton, Glamour, 11 June 2025
• Boston even cherry-picked some strategy from the Warriors.
  — Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 18 June 2024
• On Friday, the Board of Regents decided to cherry-pick the investigative facts.
  — Wanda James, Denver Post, 24 June 2025
• As the genre turns 50, its most rewarding songs wisely cherry-pick from the past while staying true to rap’s reputation as a harbinger of what’s next.
  — Pitchfork, 11 Dec. 2023
• Democrats warn that Trump supporters would cherry-pick clips of the video to spin conspiracy theories.
  — Scott MacFarlane, CBS News, 20 Dec. 2023
• Fox said Dominion had mischaracterized the record and cherry-picked quotes stripped of key context.
  — David Bauder, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Feb. 2023
• The speed at which the Saudi league has been able to cherry-pick such familiar, if fading, names from Europe’s elite clubs has made the country’s ambition feel like an inevitability.
  — Ahmed Al Omran, New York Times, 13 July 2023
• In response, Baldoni’s counsel has alleged that the text messages illustrative of the smear campaign in the Times article were cherry-picked and taken out of context.
  — Nicole Page, IndieWire, 6 Jan. 2025
• His peers criticized him for cherry-picking data, and his comments drew backlash from healthcare providers who were overwhelmed by the strain on U.S. hospitals.
  — Claire Bugos, Verywell Health, 27 Nov. 2024
• The San Sebastian film festival has cherry-picked the best of Cannes’ competition lineup for its Perlak section this year.
  — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Aug. 2024
• Taxpayers deserve an independent and complete review — not cherry-picking topics and then putting a thumb on the scale.
  — Daniel Borenstein, The Mercury News, 29 Mar. 2024
• Enck accused the plastics industry of cherry-picking research, too.
  — Emily Le Coz, USA TODAY, 1 May 2023
• Prosecutors, however, said Trump’s defense had cherry-picked two of Chutkan’s statements out of context and misapplied the law to wrongly argue that the judge was biased against him.
  — Rachel Weiner, Washington Post, 27 Sep. 2023
• Well, and speaking of which, some of your Republican colleagues have cherry-picked some of the images to frankly further some conspiracy theories.
  — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 26 Nov. 2023
• Instead, just like the home deals we cherry-picked ahead of this year’s Memorial Day, many of the pieces have achieved virality on TikTok and received our own seal of approval after multiple rounds of testing.
  — Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 2 July 2025
• So while everyone else was laughing behind my back and cherry-picking easy assignments, my first five were mortuaries battling hepatitis outbreaks.
  — Jim Dunn, Forbes.com, 2 July 2025