How to Use corrective in a Sentence

corrective

adjective

• She had corrective surgery on her knee this past summer.
• People with bad eyesight usually need to wear corrective lenses, such as eyeglasses or contact lenses.
• The speaker has no role in putting out any kind of corrective action.
  — CBS News, 20 Apr. 2023
• Neither hears the truth, as often as is wholesome, and both suffer for the want of the corrective.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 9 Oct. 2023
• But, to achieve any kind of major corrective action, emissions must be slashed by the end of the decade.
  — Dinah Voyles Pulver, Sarah Bowman, USA TODAY, 10 Aug. 2021
• The Chase Bank branch quickly took corrective steps after the tragedy.
  — Devoun Cetoute, Miami Herald, 8 June 2024
• The state and city negotiated the corrective plan that held off the threat of a total state takeover of BPS.
  — Adria Watson, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Sep. 2022
• Some of this is just corrective action by the current regime.
  — John Canzano, oregonlive, 4 Feb. 2022
• In 2021, they were told to submit a corrective action plan.
  — Will McCarthy, The Mercury News, 25 Mar. 2024
• And the intended response has to be both durable and corrective.
  — Elizabeth Cooney, STAT, 17 Feb. 2021
• To me, the nightly BirdCast map is a corrective to our human-centric view of the planet.
  — Ty Burr, New York Times, 18 Apr. 2023
• To me, the nightly BirdCast map has come to mean a great deal, not least a corrective to our human-centric view of the planet.
  — Ty Burr, New York Times, 18 Apr. 2023
• Dan explored the idea of corrective surgery to fix his injured back but the results of those kinds of surgeries were often hit and miss.
  — Lucia Osborne-Crowley, refinery29.com, 6 Sep. 2022
• The texture of their lives offers a corrective to erasure.
  — Dara T. Mathis, The Atlantic, 13 Nov. 2023
• This would be a corrective to that, as well as a much-deserved coronation.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 11 Mar. 2023
• Runion said that even after corrective jaw surgery that cost tens of thousands of dollars, some of her teeth may still be at risk.
  — Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 7 Jan. 2024
• Instead, the officials funded some of the research that led to the corrective eye surgery technique.
  — Katie Hunt, CNN, 14 Sep. 2022
• There was no other word for it, as if a corrective current flowed from the house through the dusty tile and into her hand and, truly, her whole body.
  — Dana Spiotta, Vogue, 20 Apr. 2021
• Dean and Hines would not provide the further corrective action made by the district and Hamilton.
  — Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic, 30 Aug. 2022
• The surgery didn't go as planned, so Joe had corrective surgery that resulted in seven screws and a plate being put in his left foot.
  — Dana Rose Falcone, PEOPLE.com, 16 Nov. 2021
• For the first six months of my life, specialists were focused on corrective measures that just weren’t working.
  — Hunter Woodhall and Rachel Chang, Travel + Leisure, 6 Feb. 2024
• Some saw me as someone who would just leave them with a list of noncompliant items and corrective actions to do.
  — Star Tribune, 28 July 2020
• In some very clear cases, corrective action is needed, to be sure.
  — Byron McCauley, The Enquirer, 4 Oct. 2020
• Though a corporation can’t go to prison, PG&E could face more fines and corrective actions ordered by the court.
  — J.d. Morris, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 Sep. 2021
• The initial trial attempt failed because the corrective gene didn’t make its way into enough of the patient’s stem cells.
  — Sandy Banks Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 29 Nov. 2020
• The report did note that about 51% of corrective actions have been verified and addressed.
  — Dallas News, 26 Jan. 2023
• In 2013, the FDA closed out its review after Abiomed took corrective actions that appeared to address the concerns.
  — Peter Loftus, WSJ, 1 Nov. 2022
• The corrective actions are determined on a case-by-case basis.
  — Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 9 Nov. 2022
• The easiest way to resolve a missing signature is to track down that person and ask them to sign a corrective deed.
  — Gary Singer, Sun Sentinel, 3 Oct. 2024
• Vice President Harris's proposal to support the building of millions of new housing units would be an important corrective.
  — Marco Rubio, Newsweek, 2 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Dec 2024