How to Use cherry-pick in a Sentence

cherry-pick

verb

• Yes, these stats are cherry-picked.
  — Mike Finger, San Antonio Express-News, 2 Mar. 2026
• Many of his vetoes seemed to cherry-pick projects from longer lists.
  — Orlando Sentinel, The Orlando Sentinel, 1 July 2025
• This isn’t news, but Trump carefully cherry-picked his way around it.
  — Tom Nichols, The Atlantic, 17 July 2026
• There, shoppers could cherry-pick from different eras to curate their looks.
  — Boutayna Chokrane, Vogue, 30 Oct. 2023
• And besides that, Meyer said, the league’s timeframe is cherry-picked.
  — Evan Drellich, New York Times, 28 July 2026
• 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
• Even the politicians who attended the rallies cherry-picked which parts to respond to.
  — Em Readman, refinery29.com, 7 May 2024
• 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
• Their style is to highlight 5% out of all the film’s reviews, cherry-picking the ones that that are negative.
  — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 28 Aug. 2025
• Bianco argued that crime data put out by the state has been cherry-picked by liberals to make law enforcement look bad.
  — Hailey Wang, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2026
• Many Ivy League students have learned to cherry-pick easy-grading professors.
  — Karin Klein, The Mercury News, 13 Nov. 2024
• Like any other young actor, her goal is to gain experience by saying yes to a number of projects, not to cherry-pick them.
  — Julie Hinds, Freep.com, 29 Jan. 2026
• Her audience tends to consume her albums as complete sets as opposed to cherry-picking their favorites for their playlists.
  — Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 8 July 2025
• 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
• Presidents sometimes bolster their claims of a mandate by cherry-picking polling results.
  — Jenny Jarvie, Los Angeles Times, 29 Nov. 2024
• Enck accused the plastics industry of cherry-picking research, too.
  — Emily Le Coz, USA TODAY, 1 May 2023
• Fox said Dominion had mischaracterized the record and cherry-picked quotes stripped of key context.
  — David Bauder, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Feb. 2023
• Some of the founders were indeed devout Christians and these folks cherry-pick Christian quotations from them.
  — Steven Greenhut, Oc Register, 5 Dec. 2025
• The order cherry-picks lawless acts by persons alleged to be members of left-wing groups but never mentions the violence by right-wing groups.
  — Billal Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Oct. 2025
• Soliman’s legal team filed statements from all three balking at how DHS had cherry-picked their research.
  — Hannah Allam, ProPublica, 10 Sep. 2025
• Not only that, this group likes to fast-forward through programs and cherry-pick favorite clips, all while multitasking across multiple screens.
  — Jennifer Silverman, Rolling Stone, 7 Apr. 2026
• Cha chaan tengs grew in popularity, cherry-picking elements from all three restaurants to create a new type of cuisine.
  — Sam Stone, Bon Appetit Magazine, 9 Apr. 2026
• Now that Mozilla has revealed a dozen of them, the same critics will surely claim they too were cherry-picked and conceal less accurate results.
  — Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 7 May 2026
• 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
• Among the most consequential changes was a move to support private teams and private coaches, rather than just those who had been cherry-picked by the federation.
  — George Ramsay, CNN Money, 26 Aug. 2025
• 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
• Hellebuyck is also not trying to cherry-pick a destination or three using his full no-movement clause, which has become a recent league trend.
  — James Mirtle, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2026
• Trump and allies have often cherry-picked, misled and gone well beyond the evidence in trying to attach high-profile violence to the left.
  — Cnn.com Wire Service, Mercury News, 21 Sep. 2025
• Each fin features quotations cherry-picked from a century of glowing Phantom press reviews.
  — Howard Walker, Robb Report, 22 Oct. 2025
• Huston unfortunately cherry-picks the best of his state without acknowledging the worst.
  — Chicago Tribune, 25 June 2026