How to Use directive in a Sentence

directive

1 of 2 adjective

• Most intriguingly, the new app will take a more directive approach to making suggestions to drivers about where to go and what to do.
  — Alexis C. Madrigal, The Atlantic, 10 Apr. 2018
• What followed was a flurry of directive fingers from shoppers helping guide officers to the location of all three fleeing perps.
  — Kim Fu, The Mercury News, 10 July 2019
• Extroverted leaders may guide their employees with more directive measures and even spontaneity.
  — Ivan Ong, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2022
• In his book Quiet Leadership, David Rock talks a lot about how a coaching role is more effective than a directive management role.
  — Antonia Bowring, Forbes, 1 June 2021
• This might look like Mom making the morning routine happen with warm and directive encouragement, while Dad takes charge of enforcing bedtime routines.
  — Angela J. Narayan, The Conversation, 9 June 2026
• However, while Millennials wanted their leaders to act like partners and friends, Gen-Z ask for their leaders to be directive when needed.
  — Karina Ochis, Forbes, 4 May 2023
• There's almost no other forum where somebody in a senior leadership position can receive a genuinely independent challenge, and work one to one in a non-directive way.
  — Michael B. Arthur, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2022
• This fits with the global rise of non- directive genetic counseling in the Fifties, which emphasized voluntary measures in the shadow of Nazi atrocities.
  — Krithika Varagur, Harper's Magazine, 10 July 2023
• In urgent situations, coaching may need to be complemented by more directive styles to ensure swift decisions are made and immediate challenges are addressed effectively.
  — Andriana Eliadis, Forbes, 17 Sep. 2024
• Yet in many organizations, traditional directive male leadership has been predominant, and their leaders do not necessarily have the skills to lead collaboratively, nurture culture change, and turn around businesses.
  — Joe Ferreira, Forbes, 7 Apr. 2021

directive

2 of 2 noun

• They received a written directive instructing them to develop new security measures.
• Lynch took heed of the directive.
  — Jaylon Thompson may 7, Kansas City Star, 7 May 2026
• All staff were told to comply with the directive.
  — Stephen Smith, CBS News, 11 June 2026
• And the state has yet to roll out new training based on last year’s directive.
  — Edgar Sandoval, New York Times, 24 May 2023
• What will this new directive mean in practice?
  — Virginia La Torre Jeker, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
• What was the initial directive on this one?
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 25 June 2026
• McAfee told me the directive was an attack on his right to free speech.
  — CNN Money, 14 June 2026
• That’s not a directive to skip screening.
  — Allison Palmer, Miami Herald, 28 Apr. 2026
• The directive came from a finance firm that had loaned to her small business.
  — Alina Selyukh, NPR, 25 Mar. 2026
• But some of it was informed by strategic top-down directives.
  — Mick Ryan, Foreign Affairs, 5 Feb. 2024
• In any case, why has the flag come down now, weeks after the directive was first issued?
  — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 11 Feb. 2026
• And every scene, if not written was at least, like, the directives were very clear.
  — Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 14 July 2023
• With new leadership at the helm, this is the directive.
  — Tabitha Parent, PEOPLE, 24 Oct. 2025
• The directive, then, leaned less beach house and more country cottage.
  — Allison Duncan, Architectural Digest, 6 May 2026
• Samuelsson gave her one clear directive.
  — Kimberly Wilson, Essence, 26 Jan. 2026
• For us, this wasn’t the product of some strategic directive.
  — Joelle Diderich, Footwear News, 6 Oct. 2025
• Jones said of her managers' directives.
  — Gabrielle Fonrouge,paige Tortorelli, CNBC, 19 Sep. 2025
• Was that the directive Oliver gave you?
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 9 Jan. 2026
• And so, that was kind of the directive of the Potomac reunion.
  — Dave Quinn, Peoplemag, 25 Mar. 2024
• That directive was later extended to the end of the school year.
  — Stephanie Innes, The Arizona Republic, 15 Mar. 2023
• Is that a directive from the coaching staff or just his decision?
  — Christian Clark, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2026
• With that directive, Davies built a tower of wine bottles that were five feet high.
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 14 Feb. 2026
• The trick is to turn your directive into a teaching moment.
  — Vicki Glembocki, Parents, 28 Feb. 2026
• That’s a brash top-down directive that has taken hold of businesses.
  — Cerys Goodall, Forbes.com, 12 June 2026
• Most of the book’s entries, one for each day of the year, appear as calm, concrete directives.
  — Clay Risen, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2023
• That is a directive from the president.
  — Ted Johnson, Deadline, 9 Oct. 2025
• Her plans to move clashed with Bloomberg’s return-to-the-office directive.
  — Simon Willis, Fortune, 5 Apr. 2023
• It also was proposed, not a directive.
  — Samantha Ketterer, Houston Chronicle, 7 Mar. 2026
• Their involvement stayed in the realm of guidance, not directives.
  — David Canfield, HollywoodReporter, 24 Oct. 2025
• The directive applies to imports of lean beef trimmings, which are used to produce ground beef.
  — Mary Cunningham, CBS News, 9 Feb. 2026