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
• Some of this is just corrective action by the current regime.
  — John Canzano, oregonlive, 4 Feb. 2022
• Eye movements are a problem faced in corrective laser eye surgery.
  — Nick Caplan and Andrew Winnard, CNN, 13 June 2017
• What a corrective to such nonsense Vonn is.
  — Sally Jenkins, The Atlantic, 18 Dec. 2025
• The list of corrective to-do’s for teachers (and parents) is long.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Oct. 2019
• This corrective pullback has knocked the price out of the growth channel of the past month and a half.
  — Billy Bambrough, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026
• Our coaching staff was not afraid to get in someone’s face, be corrective, treat you like an adult.
  — Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 5 July 2026
• Is there some corrective action to be taken?
  — Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 22 May 2026
• People who don't know what the problem is cannot take any corrective action.
  — Meredith Wilshere, People.com, 20 July 2025
• There are many ways to improve a person, from vaccines to corrective eye surgery.
  — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 25 Sep. 2018
• That's why disputes work best as a corrective tool and not a long-term debt strategy.
  — Angelica Leicht, CBS News, 14 Jan. 2026
• In some very clear cases, corrective action is needed, to be sure.
  — Byron McCauley, The Enquirer, 4 Oct. 2020
• The model then learns from that corrective feedback.
  — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 22 Jan. 2026
• But, to achieve any kind of major corrective action, emissions must be slashed by the end of the decade.
  — Dinah Voyles Pulver, Sarah Bowman, USA TODAY, 10 Aug. 2021
• Our chance to take corrective action was lost by our callousness.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026
• There’s risk to Tannehill not having surgery — just as there would have been with corrective knee surgery.
  — Dave Hyde, Sun-Sentinel.com, 25 May 2017
• This corrective option helps with both near and distant vision.
  — Malana Vantyler, AZCentral.com, 28 Aug. 2025
• 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
• 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
• Currently, of course, the corrective price action has been felt by some areas, but not all.
  — Frank Cappelleri, CNBC, 24 Dec. 2024
• Plus, the corrective is more likely to be remembered.
  — Jessica A. Stern, The Conversation, 23 Jan. 2026
• For many, a no-phone vacation is less an indulgence than a corrective.
  — Hanna Wickes, Kansas City Star, 16 May 2026
• The Chase Bank branch quickly took corrective steps after the tragedy.
  — Devoun Cetoute, Miami Herald, 8 June 2024
• Some saw me as someone who would just leave them with a list of noncompliant items and corrective actions to do.
  — Star Tribune, 28 July 2020
• Brown’s citation earlier this week was seen by some close watchers of the award as a kind of corrective.
  — Max Tani, semafor.com, 6 May 2026
• Let’s dig into the reasons why mulch no longer does its job and how to know when to take corrective action to keep your garden soil moist.
  — Nadia Hassani, The Spruce, 20 May 2026
• 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
• Everything about it was meant to be a corrective against that straight white, grouchy private detective.
  — Caroline Reilly, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026