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.
• In fact, there wasn’t even a model for corrective legislation.
  — Casey Michel, The New Republic, 23 Dec. 2020
• 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 team reviewed district data, documents and the corrective action plan throughout the process.
  — Billy Kobin, The Courier-Journal, 24 Nov. 2020
• That arrangement called for both parties to develop a corrective action plan for the district, with a subsequent audit this year.
  — Steve Bittenbender, Washington Examiner, 25 Nov. 2020
• The agency said in a statement that Wells Fargo has already started to take corrective steps to remedy these issues.
  — Morgan Chittum, CNBC, 13 Sep. 2024
• The tanker truck tried to take corrective action and swerved to the left and ran off the runway, which resulted in the truck overturning on the driver's side, the incident report states.
  — Brianna Kwasnik, Arkansas Online, 24 Dec. 2020
• Federal officials have not yet requested a corrective action plan.
  — Megan Stringer, Axios, 20 Sep. 2024
• Outline corrective actions, like placing executives on leave.
  — Edward Segal, Forbes, 26 Sep. 2024
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 12 Nov 2024