How to Use selective in a Sentence

selective

adjective

• The club is selective in choosing members.
• The college has a highly selective admissions process.
• The selective oenophiles in your life may want their own say on what their gift should be.
  — Hannah Selinger, wsj.com, 29 Sep. 2023
• Yet, the dish is approachable–for the more selective eaters.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 26 Oct. 2023
• The most selective schools had a more than 50% drop in enrollment from those groups.
  — Ira Porter, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Apr. 2023
• And a little selective shopping could earn you the MVP with not only guests, but your spouse.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune, 6 Feb. 2024
• Nearly all go on to selective high schools and four-year colleges.
  — Kelly Field, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Jan. 2024
• Now, this could be a complete case of selective editing.
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 30 Mar. 2023
• Like the rest of the NBA, James has become much more selective in his shots, taking fewer mid-range jumpers in favor of threes.
  — Mitchell Thorson, USA Today, 8 Feb. 2023
• That rosy view of the Trump economy involved a lot of selective forgetting — more about that in a minute.
  — Paul Krugman, The Mercury News, 24 Jan. 2024
• The gene gives them a selective advantage in places like Africa, where malaria is rampant.
  — Gina Kolata, New York Times, 15 Nov. 2023
• Later in the game, with the Dodgers behind, Betts and Freeman were less selective, however.
  — Dylan Hernández, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2023
• Over the last five years, selective enforcement calls made up about 20 percent of the total calls logged at the library, data shows.
  — Lyndsay Winkley, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 May 2023
• The more selective approach is welcome news to Randy Simpson, who frets about the future due to the persistent drought in much of southern Utah.
  — Mark Eddington, The Salt Lake Tribune, 14 Aug. 2023
• More care and selective curb skimming work better here.
  — Dan Edmunds, Car and Driver, 26 Mar. 2023
• The most selective schools in the U.S. don't necessarily pay their presidents the most.
  — Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 4 Jan. 2024
• Last year, there were 26 applicants per seat at Stuyvesant, for example, and 24 per seat at Townsend Harris, a selective school in Queens.
  — Troy Closson, New York Times, 18 Oct. 2023
• In addition to the NFL being selective in its reporting, there’s a lot of evidence that the players are as well.
  — James M. Smoliga, Dvm, Ars Technica, 10 Nov. 2023
• That means investors will need to be more selective in order to find the right opportunity.
  — Will Daniel, Fortune, 2 Apr. 2024
• Other physicians have told him that more parents are being selective about which vaccines to give their kids.
  — Mike Stobbe, Chicago Tribune, 12 Jan. 2023
• The stakes are high for colleges like Vanderbilt, where Black students make up 9% of the student body, more than most highly selective colleges.
  — Collin Binkley, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 May 2023
• The project was inspired by Allison Parrish’s @everyword bot, which, in the course of seven years, tweeted out a vast, albeit selective, swath of English words.
  — Max Norman, The New Yorker, 7 Mar. 2023
• Anthony, who prefers to speak to his fans in videos on Facebook and Instagram, has been selective in the few interviews he’s done in recent weeks.
  — Timothy Bella, Washington Post, 25 Sep. 2023
• The defense presented a motion to dismiss the case, saying the men were the victims of selective prosecution.
  — Cheri Mossburg, CNN, 22 Feb. 2024
• These weeds are easy to control with selective herbicides.
  — Chris McKeown, The Enquirer, 1 Apr. 2023
• The preference for graduates from the most selective schools extended across all the justices, who select four clerks per term.
  — Michael T. Nietzel, Forbes, 6 Feb. 2023
• The cheated are under heavy selective pressure to outwit the cheaters, who then come under heavy pressure to refine their techniques.
  — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2023
• So the selective process has to be subjective and has to be artistically driven.
  — Todd Gilchrist, Variety, 6 Dec. 2023
• Miller had to travel to Colorado to get a selective fetal reduction of the nonviable fetus.
  — Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 16 Dec. 2023
• The most constructive defense is to be highly selective in choosing which apps get installed.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 13 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024