How to Use by choice in a Sentence

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• Edwards was a bystander by choice for much of the game.
  — Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 23 Jan. 2024
• Ward’s version, the messy hot aunt, is child-free by choice.
  — Glamour, 20 May 2022
• That’s pretty close to the strength of the Larceny, but that’s by chance and not by choice.
  — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 12 Jan. 2023
• But keep in mind, these are the same people who drink Malort by choice.
  — Phil Thompson, Chicago Tribune, 19 Oct. 2022
• The city pointed out that nobody had been forced to live at the S.S.A., and that the residents were there by choice.
  — Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2022
• There was a girl in my high school who came to school—by choice—barefoot every day.
  — Tara Gonzalez, Harper's BAZAAR, 23 June 2023
• Why not write her off, alongside Roland, as homeless by choice?
  — William T. Vollmann, Harper's Magazine, 16 Oct. 2023
• For those overwhelmed by choice, the ten-piece omakase menu is the perfect decision.
  — Jacqueline Dole, Travel + Leisure, 19 Mar. 2024
• Still, coaches on the team acknowledged that part of this model was not by choice.
  — Noah Weiland Lee Klafczynski, New York Times, 17 Mar. 2023
• Apart from the twins, the drag performers in this circle are family by choice, not genes.
  — Carolyn Kaster, Fortune, 3 July 2023
• But Emily Blunt was in talks before turning the part down, although not by choice.
  — Brendan Morrow, The Week, 14 June 2023
• Kershaw, 35, is a free agent again this offseason by choice.
  — Jorge Castillo, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2023
• Her character, Elodie, is being groomed to become a princess, though not by choice.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 7 Mar. 2024
• Bears that left the fjords didn’t necessarily do so by choice.
  — Evan Bush, NBC News, 16 June 2022
• Farias is currently safe and is with his mother, by choice, police said.
  — Sarah Bahari, Dallas News, 6 July 2023
• Some of us sunbathed and others got in the crystal-clear water -- some by choice and others carried by force.
  — John-Michael Mulloy, The Indianapolis Star, 18 Aug. 2022
• If the tonal shift is by choice, the other issue is one that can’t really be helped in the modern TV economy.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 22 Feb. 2024
• Real change happens over time in the tiniest moments, day after day, choice by choice.
  — Elaine Welteroth, Washington Post, 22 Nov. 2022
• Hoda Kotb and Savannah Guthrie missed out on a major high school milestone — but not by choice.
  — Dory Jackson, Peoplemag, 2 Oct. 2023
• Miquelon’s small village center is full of landmarks that tell the story of how people ended up here, by choice or by chance.
  — Hillary Richards, Travel + Leisure, 28 June 2023
• Hydrating May not be suited for very dry skin Overwhelmed by choice?
  — Tatjana Freund, ELLE, 20 Sep. 2022
• Chuke has had a hand in every part of making this space, but not necessarily by choice.
  — Jennifer Wilson, New York Times, 26 Sep. 2023
• In season one, most contestants left either by choice or due to injury.
  — Jamie Ballard, Women's Health, 22 Aug. 2023
• Farias is staying with his mother by choice, Zamora said Thursday.
  — Francisco Guzman, USA TODAY, 6 July 2023
• If one's religion prevents such a choice, that is fine, but religion should have no role in medicine except by choice.
  — Meagan Flynn, Washington Post, 11 Apr. 2023
• The only way contestants can leave is by choice, medical withdrawal, or by force from the agents.
  — Jamie Ballard, Women's Health, 22 Aug. 2023
• Certainly there is a time, either by choice or by circumstance, when someone may choose to retire in the classic sense.
  — Joseph Coughlin, Forbes, 14 Aug. 2022
• Seven years later, that burden is gone — though not totally by choice.
  — Sopan Deb, New York Times, 16 Dec. 2022
• And who could forget the Duchess of Sussex's penchant for sustainable footwear, as made evident by choice to wear Rothy's and Veja sneakers.
  — Roxanne Adamiyatt, Town & Country, 26 May 2023
• The new-and-improved 2022 Dolphins are being offered up by choice to a national audience.
  — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 6 Dec. 2022

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024