How to Use elective in a Sentence

elective

1 of 2 adjective

• She took three elective courses last term.
• Plastic surgery is elective surgery.
• He's never held an elective office.
• Still, Kinzinger hasn’t ruled out seeking elective office in the future.
  — Will Weissert, Chicago Tribune, 20 July 2022
• All elective surgeries have been postponed, the spokesperson said.
  — Celina Tebor, CNN, 8 Jan. 2023
• Hayes, a former national teacher of the year who had never held elective office, won the open seat in 2018.
  — Mark Pazniokas, Hartford Courant, 16 Apr. 2022
• So elective abortions, they hadn't been performed there or available since 1985.
  — Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 25 June 2023
• Ricard, who retired from teaching at the school in May, was listed as an elective math strategies teacher on the school website.
  — Li Cohen, CBS News, 2 Sep. 2022
• Medtronic’s sales were hurt during the pandemic due to the postponement of elective surgeries.
  — Trefis Team, Forbes, 19 May 2022
• Some students will have the option of giving up half their lunch hour to take a music technique class if signing up for an elective class isn’t an option.
  — Joseph Ruzich, Chicago Tribune, 25 Jan. 2023
• Community is found in every corner of camp — by the lake, in the dining hall, during elective activities and in the bunks.
  — Rachel Wisniewski, Washington Post, 17 Aug. 2023
• For elective procedures, the group recommends that patients who take a daily dose of a GLP-1 drug should hold the treatment the day of surgery, and those who take a weekly dose should hold it the week before surgery.
  — Elaine Chen Reprints, STAT, 29 June 2023
• Every year, more than 1 million Americans cross the border to save up to 70% on elective procedures.
  — Alexis McAdams, Fox News, 14 Mar. 2023
• People pulling elective 80-hour weeks certainly enjoy — in fact, take for granted — the fruits of other people’s refusal to spend that much time at work.
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 7 Aug. 2022
• These logjams take up beds that are needed for elective surgeries, which hurts a hospital’s bottom line.
  — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 18 May 2022
• Alabama leaders, on Friday, acted swiftly to lock in a 2019 law that bans all elective abortions, except when the life of a mother is at risk.
  — al, 26 June 2022
• Brown said that the antiabortion movement needs to focus on working to ban elective abortions rather than fighting for extreme bans.
  — Annie Gowen, Washington Post, 29 Oct. 2023
• Now, Boston Children's is delaying some elective surgeries to make room for kids who are acutely ill.
  — Liz Szabo, CBS News, 9 Dec. 2022
• And by not ruling on elective abortions, the court’s decision means that most abortions are still not an option for state residents.
  — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 21 Mar. 2023
• But hospitals have been able to make some improvements against massive waiting lists for both elective care and cancer care, in the face of extreme pressures.
  — Katherine Hignett, Forbes, 31 July 2022
• Over the course of Wednesday and Thursday, more than 30 physician practices and other Reid offices had to be closed, and 23 elective surgeries were postponed and are being rescheduled.
  — Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star, 15 Apr. 2023
• Even an expulsion from elective office wouldn’t cut off a politician’s pension.
  — Robert T. Garrett, Dallas News, 13 Sep. 2023
• When in the hospital recently for elective surgery, admissions were up.
  — cleveland, 30 Mar. 2022
• But skeptics worry that doctors could put off certain treatments or procedures, such as elective surgeries, in a bid to keep costs down.
  — Aaron Gregg, Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2023
• At the same time, many have yet to offer a plethora of elective courses on digital marketing that may enable students to explore and learn about the topic with more depth and breadth.
  — Tomoko Yokoi, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2022
• An elective procedure doesn’t mean the surgery is optional, but rather that it can be scheduled in advance, according to Johns Hopkins Medicine.
  — Sara G. Miller, NBC News, 9 Jan. 2024
• The curriculum is broken down into core classes and elective courses.
  — Ashley Braun, Health, 26 June 2023
• Each student is required to take a college preparation course and one academic elective course.
  — Beacon-News Staff, chicagotribune.com, 25 Mar. 2022
• However, the researchers did not find the same effect in patients who had undergone elective hip surgery or colorectal surgery.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 May 2023
• Attorney Kaylee Wedgeworth of Centerton made this race her first bid for elective office.
  — Doug Thompson, arkansasonline.com, 15 Nov. 2023

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elective

2 of 2 noun

• She's taking several electives this year.
• But there are mandatory badges and electives, and one of the required badges was bird study.
  — Lawrence Specker, AL.com, 25 May 2017
• But maybe not so tough that Bridges would have passed up being a top-10 pick to finish off some electives.
  — Rob Mahoney, SI.com, 15 June 2018
• At the time, an elective that Mercy taught was being taken away.
  — Georgann Yara, The Arizona Republic, 17 Dec. 2021
• After the vote, the district planned to cut $1 million per year for three years, cuts that should affect electives and class sizes.
  — Tyler Langan, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 Mar. 2018
• The class would be an elective that would give them three credits toward their high school diplomas.
  — Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 May 2023
• The Little Rock School District is among those offering the course as an elective.
  — Josh Snyder, Arkansas Online, 15 Aug. 2023
• The high school has had to cut so many electives that many seniors leave school early because there are no classes for them.
  — Moriah Balingit, Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2019
• Though some choose extra academic time, most move to an elective.
  — Steve Sadin, chicagotribune.com, 1 Apr. 2022
• The course is currently offered at both Cherry Hill high schools -- West and East -- only as an elective.
  — Stephanie Fasano, ABC News, 8 Feb. 2021
• Not so in Nic Johnson’s mindfulness elective at Franklin, where 30 or so students at a time come to take deep breaths, listen and find some peace.
  — oregonlive, 2 June 2023
• Any courses under the new law would be electives, not requirements.
  — Paul Leblanc, CNN, 30 June 2017
• The only electives open were Journalism 1-2 and Typing 1-2.
  — Karina Bland, azcentral, 2 July 2018
• The difference here is, in the collapse of FTX, crypto has gone from being more of an elective for folks towards something that has to be addressed.
  — Leo Schwartz, Fortune, 19 Dec. 2022
• Under the proposal, the school would not rank students or give honors credits for electives.
  — USA TODAY, 18 June 2019
• Under the law, any courses would be electives, not requirements.
  — Melissa Reinert, Cincinnati.com, 22 Sep. 2017
• The class, an elective, was open to any undergraduate student at NYU.
  — Joseph Pisani, WSJ, 15 Mar. 2022
• In Winchester City Public Schools, the course is one of the most popular electives, often with a waitlist, a spokesperson said.
  — Karina Elwood, Washington Post, 8 Mar. 2023
• The district doesn’t have electives or music or art, but teaches a core curriculum and has a tele-social worker.
  — Sunni Bean, Anchorage Daily News, 30 June 2023
• Schamis has been teaching at MSD for 17 years and noted that the school's Holocaust studies program has been offered for students as an elective for the past four years.
  — Sergio Carmona, Jewish Journal, 29 June 2018
• The future of the Youth and Government elective in McKinney is settled, meanwhile.
  — Texas Tribune, Dallas News, 18 Aug. 2021
• His lifetime sports classes were among the most popular electives on campus.
  — courant.com, 21 Jan. 2018
• Davie Hinshaw [e-mail] Dennis remembers the youth who showed up for the freshman-year elective as shy and passive, almost reclusive.
  — Ann Doss Helms, charlotteobserver, 7 June 2017
• Now Beaumont is losing about $70 million a month after halting electives in March.
  — Melanie Evans, WSJ, 1 Apr. 2020
• Audubon has much to offer, Hardemion said, including an elective in music production, where students craft their own beats and songs.
  — Los Angeles Times, 15 June 2021
• For these characters, the study of English isn’t merely an elective chosen to broaden their knowledge of the world or enhance an upcoming trip.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 7 Feb. 2024
• The new African-American history course (an elective that schools will be required to offer) doubles down on this approach.
  — WSJ, 7 Oct. 2021
• Joshua Hyman was a fourth-year medical student just starting an ultrasound elective in the E.R.
  — New York Times, 4 Feb. 2021
• The class was later reinstated, but, according to USA Today, is now an elective.
  — Esther Wang, The New Republic, 14 July 2021
• This year, his senior year at Clearwater High, a friend pulled him into an elective called Freedom Ambassadors.
  — USA Today, 22 June 2020

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