How to Use discretionary in a Sentence

discretionary

adjective

• The appeal to the state Supreme Court is discretionary, meaning the justices can vote to hear the case or not hear the case.
  — Bill Rankin, ajc, 27 Apr. 2022
• Those goods ranged from food to discretionary items like home decor and lawn and gardens.
  — Paige McGlauflin, Fortune, 27 July 2022
• Few trips are discretionary — people have to go to work and school and feed themselves.
  — Carol Becker, Star Tribune, 4 May 2021
• There’s still a legal process to go through with a lot of discretionary hurdles.
  — Nathan Deuel, Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2021
• The appeal is discretionary, which means the Court can decide whether or not to address it.
  — Jessie Balmert, The Enquirer, 10 Jan. 2023
• At the same time a discretionary 13.5% grant scheme will be merged into the offset system.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 9 May 2023
• Yeah, so there are some signs that discretionary spending is low.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 5 Sep. 2024
• Regulators are tossing due process and the rule of law to the curb to make way for broad and discretionary power.
  — Rachel Chiu, National Review, 25 Oct. 2021
• This caps payments at 20% of your discretionary income and lasts 25 years.
  — Nerd Wallet, oregonlive, 19 July 2021
• Consumer discretionary stocks, down 2.7% across the board, were again the worst performers.
  — Lisa Kailai Han, CNBC, 23 Oct. 2024
• Any of this trio could also take home the discretionary Chronometry Prize too.
  — Elizabeth Doerr, Robb Report, 7 Nov. 2023
• In the justice system, judges have the discretionary power to ask a jury to keep trying to reach a verdict.
  — Gina Kaufman, Detroit Free Press, 15 July 2024
• Um, this was through a city discretionary fund for council members.
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 11 May 2022
• Why will someone part with their discretionary income and buy this?
  — Molly Baker, WSJ, 2 June 2021
• Consumer discretionary stocks, which have made up the worst-performing sector so far this year, led the S&P 500 higher for the day.
  — Michele Luhn, CNBC, 25 Mar. 2025
• Members also have discretionary budgets to spend on the projects or services of their choice.
  — Jon Healey, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2022
• Consider holding one the first weekend of the month when many people get paid and have more discretionary cash.
  — Samantha S. Thorpe, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 July 2021
• There are parts of the budget, known as discretionary spending, that must be renewed by Congress each year.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 27 May 2021
• There are parts of the budget, known as discretionary spending, that must be renewed by Congress each year.
  — Jeff Stein, Anchorage Daily News, 27 May 2021
• Some, but not all, of that spending was drawn from the discretionary funding established after the cut to the LAPD budget last year.
  — Kevin Rector, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2021
• The decline in sales for Yum Brands may in part be tied to a decline in discretionary spending from consumers more broadly.
  — Francisco Velasquez, Quartz, 1 May 2024
• My salary is broken up by base, bonus, and additional discretionary bonus (paid out in Q1 of each year).
  — Bon Appétit Contributor, Bon Appétit, 20 Oct. 2023
• And nearly six in 10 will do less discretionary spending.
  — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 12 Nov. 2020
• The overall amount of spending on projects must not exceed 1% of discretionary spending.
  — Kevin Freking, Star Tribune, 12 Mar. 2021
• The markets have already crowned the winners, starting with gold, tech, health care and consumer discretionary stocks.
  — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 5 Nov. 2020
• When gas prices rise, the cost of filling up the tank chips away at consumers’ discretionary spending and puts the household budgets of the most vulnerable in the red.
  — Justin Worland, Time, 24 Mar. 2022
• Then, in 1995, the Hubble Space Telescope’s director used his discretionary time to look what was then registered as a blank spot in the sky.
  — Tim Fernholz, Quartz, 19 July 2022
• Customers had less share of wallet for discretionary spend.
  — David Moin, WWD, 21 Jan. 2025
• As such, the community plan laid the regulatory foundation for Irvine Company to move forward with its project at The Plaza site by right, meaning the project does not require discretionary approvals.
  — Jennifer Van Grove, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Aug. 2025
• Cosmetics industry sales data can be a proxy for discretionary spending and consumer sentiment.
  — Brandon Kochkodin, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2025