How to Use prerogative in a Sentence

prerogative

noun

• If you'd rather sell the tickets than use them, that's your prerogative.
• It's a writer's prerogative to decide the fate of her characters.
• The urge to move on is yours; the prerogative not to is theirs.
  — Washington Post, 28 June 2021
• If your boyfriend wants to, that’s his prerogative.
  — R. Eric Thomas, Denver Post, 14 Mar. 2026
• Refusal, like so much else, turns out to be the prerogative of men.
  — Claire Dederer, The Atlantic, 4 May 2021
• That’s their prerogative, so blame them too.
  — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 15 May 2026
• The city says that was its prerogative and not a breach of the tax break agreement.
  — Justin Wingerter, Denver Post, 24 Sep. 2025
• That’s your prerogative as an artist, to change your mind and do something else.
  — Gary Graff, cleveland, 21 Mar. 2022
• Some may not like it, and to be honest, that’s their prerogative.
  — Sydney Scott, Essence, 9 July 2019
• This is our prerogative and bond.
  — Literary Hub, 28 Jan. 2026
• Pop didn’t give up the prerogative to broad appeal.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 29 Aug. 2025
• Some people just aren’t touchy-feely — and that’s their prerogative.
  — Catherine Pearson, New York Times, 22 May 2025
• His life, his prerogative to live it within the bounds of small-er-ish paychecks.
  — Washington Post, 19 Apr. 2021
• That is her prerogative; judges have a wide range of discretion.
  — Areva Martin, Time, 26 Jan. 2018
• This young bride is exercising her prerogative to change her mind at the very last minute.
  — New York Times, 13 Nov. 2020
• Such was the prerogative of a place home to so many of the nation’s leading financiers.
  — Sarah Schweitzer, The Atlantic, 15 Aug. 2019
• That's their prerogative and there's a whole lot of different reasons why guys do that.
  — Ben Steele, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 19 Apr. 2022
• To some extent, that’s the founder’s prerogative.
  — Diane Brady, Fortune, 12 June 2026
• There’s someone at the top who only thinks about money and that’s their prerogative.
  — Michaela Zee, Variety, 22 Nov. 2023
• Not that Leonard casts judgment; that is neither his prerogative nor his shtick.
  — Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 30 June 2025
• Though poor choices, of course, are the prerogative — if not the main purpose — of a misspent youth.
  — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 31 July 2020
• Perhaps this is the prerogative of the writer, to go left instead of right, to click instead of scroll.
  — Literary Hub, 16 Jan. 2026
• But that is their prerogative and right, and their money, so who is to question them about that really?
  — Jay Adkisson, Forbes, 10 Feb. 2024
• That's the prerogative of the commander in chief.
  — CBS News, 3 May 2026
• Wanting to live on the West Coast is a prerogative and a choice, not an insult.
  — Washington Post, 9 Feb. 2022
• But that didn’t give you the prerogative to try to replace her ticket with a worse one, whatever the cost was to you.
  — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 5 July 2023
• That's the prerogative of the commander in chief.
  — CBS News, 4 May 2026
• As the best player in a league with overflowing revenues, that is his prerogative.
  — Zack Meisel, cleveland.com, 4 July 2017
• Such confusion is certainly the prerogative of — and even welcomed in — a film as dense as this one.
  — Vulture, 20 July 2022
• Telling your daughter the truth was your prerogative and in the best interests of your family.
  — Washington Post, 20 Apr. 2022