How to Use prescriptive in a Sentence

prescriptive

adjective

• Critics claim the new rules are too prescriptive.
• The key to this shift is to not be prescriptive with your workers.
  — Mike Massaro, Fortune, 8 July 2021
• Plan with them; don’t try and be prescriptive after the fact.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2021
• The law is not prescriptive as to how the new funds will be invested.
  — Milena Zajović, Variety, 13 June 2022
• None are resolved in a prescriptive way.
  — Judy Berman, Time, 25 Sep. 2025
• If fitness gifts are seen as prescriptive, they may not be well received.
  — Rachel Murphy, Verywell Health, 11 Dec. 2023
• The notes were getting out of control and very prescriptive.
  — Mikey O'Connell, HollywoodReporter, 15 June 2026
• None of this is intended as a prescriptive sale guide for Wikipedia.
  — James Folta, Literary Hub, 26 Sep. 2025
• The book is by no means meant to be prescriptive, but rather serves as a guide for those looking for a starting point.
  — Rosana Lai, Glamour, 1 Jan. 2025
• But people who have seen the lists describe a less prescriptive process today.
  — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 18 May 2022
• The days of buying into prescriptive beauty rules, for me, are over.
  — Talia Gutierrez, Glamour, 5 Jan. 2021
• The most viral dating content tends to be prescriptive and alarmist.
  — Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 3 June 2025
• What was really important to me was not to be prescriptive at any point in the text.
  — Cody Delistraty, WSJ, 20 Oct. 2020
• Pages of calendars are too prescriptive, and blank is too daunting.
  — Medea Giordan, Wired, 30 Aug. 2021
• Wilkes doesn’t believe in being too prescriptive with the choppy bob.
  — Amy Sedghi, refinery29.com, 19 Apr. 2024
• Colleges have complained that the credit-hour rule is too prescriptive.
  — New York Times, 31 May 2018
• Whoop’s sleep data tends to be more prescriptive than descriptive.
  — Andrew Gebhart, PC Magazine, 22 Apr. 2026
• Like many academics, Chenoweth is wary of being prescriptive.
  — Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 16 Nov. 2020
• But the Daodejing is more descriptive than prescriptive – less how-to and more what is.
  — Stephen Chen, The Conversation, 18 Mar. 2026
• But even within that, that non prescriptive social media usage, fans will watch.
  — Recode Staff, Recode, 20 Mar. 2018
• The next step will be to take the humans out of the loop and let the prescriptive analytics figure it out and do it.
  — John Clemons, Forbes, 8 June 2021
• Flynn is a poet by trade and this memoir is neither linear nor prescriptive.
  — Literary Hub, 28 Apr. 2026
• But the impulse to speak out is tempered by a wariness about becoming too prescriptive.
  — David Gelles, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2021
• The pills scattered around the bathroom where she was found were not extensive or highly prescriptive.
  — Joy Williams, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
• What should not be drawn for this research, at this point, the experts said, is prescriptive clinical guidance.
  — Helen Carefoot, Flow Space, 29 Oct. 2025
• The best way to avoid a message that can be damaging is to be very prescriptive in your guidelines from the beginning.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 25 July 2022
• There are a variety of treatments, from prescriptive options to home care options.
  — Karen Pallarito, Health, 9 Nov. 2023
• Each pillar has a list of prescriptive actions that school systems are supposed to take by a certain deadline.
  — Ovetta Wiggins, Washington Post, 29 Dec. 2023
• The postpartum rebound, however, was much less prescriptive and more on their own terms.
  — Kayla Blanton, Outside, 13 Feb. 2026
• For the first time, a prescriptive hearing aid device made people envious.
  — Bill Schiffmiller, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025