How to Use selected in a Sentence

selected

adjective

• These sizes are pre-selected and cannot be customized in the set.
  — Addie Morton, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 Mar. 2023
• When asked what their sign would say, voters were given a chance to respond freely, rather than pick from a pre-selected list of choices.
  — Alexandra Marquez, NBC News, 22 Aug. 2022
• Students who read from a list of pre-selected books, including this one, were rewarded with an ice-cream party.
  — Charles Bethea, The New Yorker, 7 Feb. 2023
• Sticking with the manufacturer’s pre-selected stain and paint options is a great way to cut back on unnecessary costs.
  — Cori Sears, The Spruce, 28 Apr. 2026
• Once the Text-to-Speech panel appears, tap on the different icons to hear your text sung in the different pre-selected melodies.
  — Maren Estrada, BGR, 16 Dec. 2022
• The selected justice works with his or her team of legal clerks to write an initial draft of the opinion, which explains the legal basis for voting one way or another.
  — Eve Ringsmuth, The Conversation, 18 May 2022
• Some of the tools available to beer- and winemakers—barrel aging, hops, wild and selected yeasts, aging on lees—give cider makers, too, a vast scope for creativity.
  — Ian Knauer, WSJ, 30 Sep. 2021
• The session includes time for painting of pre-selected pieces led by an instructor, and time for any food, cake, gifts or activities the birthday family brings with them.
  — Amy Schwabe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 17 May 2022
• Coach Becky Burleigh said the team has a pre-selected pool of players to take a potential penalty, but the athletes on the pitch ultimately make the decision in the moment.
  — Julia Poe, orlandosentinel.com, 14 Oct. 2021
• Quality of Coffee For this review, the pre-selected coffee that was sent to me was from Mbozi, which is a sub-region of Tanzania that has been cultivating coffee since the 1600s.
  — Brittany Natale, SELF, 18 Apr. 2022
• These pre-selected fighter pilots and their families moved into their apartments during the summer of 1960 after residing at the Frunze Central Airfield in Moscow.
  — Jeff Spry, Space.com, 27 May 2026
• Some cool features include a kill switch that automatically disconnects you from the internet if the VPN connection fails, as well as split tunneling that allows selected apps to use the VPN connection while others transmit data in clear text.
  — K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 25 June 2026