How to Use discretionary in a Sentence

discretionary

adjective

• The appeal to the state Supreme Court is discretionary, meaning the justices can vote to hear the case or not hear the case.
  — Bill Rankin, ajc, 27 Apr. 2022
• Those goods ranged from food to discretionary items like home decor and lawn and gardens.
  — Paige McGlauflin, Fortune, 27 July 2022
• The appeal is discretionary, which means the Court can decide whether or not to address it.
  — Jessie Balmert, The Enquirer, 10 Jan. 2023
• At the same time a discretionary 13.5% grant scheme will be merged into the offset system.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 9 May 2023
• Yeah, so there are some signs that discretionary spending is low.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 5 Sep. 2024
• Consumer discretionary stocks, down 2.7% across the board, were again the worst performers.
  — Lisa Kailai Han, CNBC, 23 Oct. 2024
• Any of this trio could also take home the discretionary Chronometry Prize too.
  — Elizabeth Doerr, Robb Report, 7 Nov. 2023
• In the justice system, judges have the discretionary power to ask a jury to keep trying to reach a verdict.
  — Gina Kaufman, Detroit Free Press, 15 July 2024
• Um, this was through a city discretionary fund for council members.
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 11 May 2022
• Members also have discretionary budgets to spend on the projects or services of their choice.
  — Jon Healey, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2022
• The decline in sales for Yum Brands may in part be tied to a decline in discretionary spending from consumers more broadly.
  — Francisco Velasquez, Quartz, 1 May 2024
• My salary is broken up by base, bonus, and additional discretionary bonus (paid out in Q1 of each year).
  — Bon Appétit Contributor, Bon Appétit, 20 Oct. 2023
• When gas prices rise, the cost of filling up the tank chips away at consumers’ discretionary spending and puts the household budgets of the most vulnerable in the red.
  — Justin Worland, Time, 24 Mar. 2022
• Then, in 1995, the Hubble Space Telescope’s director used his discretionary time to look what was then registered as a blank spot in the sky.
  — Tim Fernholz, Quartz, 19 July 2022
• Schools can buy more counselor and nurse days using their own discretionary money.
  — Kristen Taketa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Mar. 2023
• In exchange for a hike in the debt limit until early 2025, Democrats agreed to roughly freeze discretionary spending for two years.
  — David Sivak, Washington Examiner, 6 June 2023
• Newsom and lawmakers could send most of the discretionary surplus back to the people who coughed it up to Sacramento.
  — Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2022
• Congress awards a little more than half of all discretionary spending to the Pentagon.
  — Fox News, 10 Jan. 2023
• In the end, total discretionary spending set by Congress is expected to come in at about $1.66 trillion for the full entire year.
  — Kevin Freking, Fortune, 7 Mar. 2024
• Dollar Tree for instance sells lots of discretionary items like party goods.
  — Jinjoo Lee, WSJ, 26 July 2022
• Use of those discretionary powers helped provoke the backlash that was central to Trump's 2016 campaign.
  — Samuel Goldman, The Week, 6 Apr. 2022
• And of course this deal is only for discretionary spending, which is projected to be roughly balanced anyway in the long run.
  — The Editors, National Review, 9 Jan. 2024
• Restaurant sales were up 0.3%, a sign that Americans are still willing to spend on discretionary items, such as eating out.
  — Christopher Rugaber, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2024
• In Venezuela, the company can’t use piecework pay or discretionary bonuses.
  — Geoff Colvin, Fortune, 19 July 2023
• But the concierge is also armed with a discretionary budget to extend random acts of kindness to passengers.
  — Chadner Navarro, Travel + Leisure, 20 Mar. 2023
• But Williams Sonoma’s portfolio of nice-to-have brands could hurt the company if discretionary budgets get even tighter.
  — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 30 Nov. 2023
• In fact, high levels of emotional health and discretionary effort are the two measures of the employee experience that set the best apart from the rest.
  — Michael Bush, Fortune, 4 Apr. 2023
• Quarterly profit and sales dropped to open the year as sales began to flag in March, forcing the New York department store to cut prices on clothes and other discretionary items.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 1 June 2023
• But while some big-box stores are still seeing shoppers eager to buy nonessentials, others are flagging the reverse — indicating that not all discretionary spending is equal this season.
  — Rob Wile, NBC News, 20 Nov. 2024
• Meanwhile, real wage growth, a possible outcome from the president-elect’s protectionist policies, is a positive for discretionary spending, the bank said.
  — Yun Li, CNBC, 26 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Dec 2024