How to Use selected in a Sentence

selected

adjective

• These sizes are pre-selected and cannot be customized in the set.
  — Addie Morton, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 Mar. 2023
• One option could be playing in two to four selected NHL cities.
  — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 24 Apr. 2020
• The odds boosts improve the odds of pre-selected wagers in different sports.
  — cleveland, 6 Nov. 2022
• Once the Text-to-Speech panel appears, tap on the different icons to hear your text sung in the different pre-selected melodies.
  — Maren Estrada, BGR, 16 Dec. 2022
• Only a selected few department heads that needed to work on the whole thing were invited to read the whole thing.
  — Emma Dibdin, Marie Claire, 28 July 2017
• When asked what their sign would say, voters were given a chance to respond freely, rather than pick from a pre-selected list of choices.
  — Alexandra Marquez, NBC News, 22 Aug. 2022
• Now, selected distributors in Berlin could be in for a treat.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 3 Feb. 2023
• But Akeem doesn’t want a bland, obedient, pre-selected wife.
  — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 5 Mar. 2021
• Choose a pre-selected gift basket or build your own gift box from a rich and varied selection.
  — Nick Morton, USA TODAY, 28 Oct. 2020
• The selected finalists are then awarded a white apron and put in the top 20 for a chance to become season 10's champion.
  — Kayla Keegan, Good Housekeeping, 30 May 2019
• In the United States, blanket coverage is the goal, whereas in the U.K. the vaccine is targeted at selected groups.
  — William F. Bynum, WSJ, 4 Jan. 2019
• Now White Pony is adding a new twist: an app to let its 400 volunteers pick up leftovers from caterers and small restaurants and bring them to pre-selected groups that could use them.
  — Carolyn Said, San Francisco Chronicle, 31 July 2021
• One selected winner will need to play cornhole on at least five separate days and complete a worksheet for each round played.
  — Patrick Connolly, orlandosentinel.com, 13 Mar. 2021
• Selected European banks were once allowed by the Treasury to use dollars in their dealings with Iran.
  — Thomas Erdbrink, New York Times, 21 Apr. 2016
• Here’s a look at selected races for the Oregon Legislature.
  — oregonlive, 27 Apr. 2022
• Teachers in selected centers pilot the framework and give feedback on it.
  — Valerie Strauss, Washington Post, 31 Oct. 2017
• Coach Becky Burleigh said the team has a pre-selected pool of players to take a potential penalty, but the athletes on the pitch ultimately make the decision in the moment.
  — Julia Poe, orlandosentinel.com, 14 Oct. 2021
• For every live call, the company will donate $1 to one of four pre-selected charities of the family’s choice.
  — Charles Trepany, USA TODAY, 2 Dec. 2020
• Students who read from a list of pre-selected books, including this one, were rewarded with an ice-cream party.
  — Charles Bethea, The New Yorker, 7 Feb. 2023
• For those who want a bit more structure, the Mirror also offers workout programs made up of pre-selected classes that give you a set workout plan for two to six weeks.
  — Sam Gutierrez, Robb Report, 27 Oct. 2022
• Costello plays to perform different themed set lists each night without repeating any of the 10 pre-selected songs from each show.
  — Jonathan Cohen, SPIN, 20 Sep. 2022
• That makes the push for a vaccine a cyclical one—a race against a viral time bomb set to go off year after year in selected season after selected season.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 5 May 2020
• But there were surprising on-stage cameos from selected members of the audience, too, who were drawn into the performance by the dancers who leapt from the stage to find their somewhat dazed quarry.
  — Hamish Bowles, Vogue, 28 Sep. 2018
• The selected justice works with his or her team of legal clerks to write an initial draft of the opinion, which explains the legal basis for voting one way or another.
  — Eve Ringsmuth, The Conversation, 18 May 2022
• The commission will meet again on Sept. 23 to audition the producer, sales agent and/or the U.S. distributor of each pre-selected film.
  — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 15 Sep. 2022
• To balance the needs of cattle and wildlife above and below ground, selected slopes are grazed to keep grasses and shrubs low enough for hawks and golden eagles to spot gophers and other prey more easily.
  — Los Angeles Times, 24 Dec. 2021
• Bochy held a meeting with selected players prior to Monday night’s game, which resulted in a better and cleaner effort in a walk-off loss.
  — Andrew Baggarly, The Mercury News, 9 May 2017
• Newsletter Sign-up Pandora plans to make more selected job reductions in other parts of the world, Mr. Boyer said.
  — Nina Trentmann, WSJ, 15 May 2019
• Some of the tools available to beer- and winemakers—barrel aging, hops, wild and selected yeasts, aging on lees—give cider makers, too, a vast scope for creativity.
  — Ian Knauer, WSJ, 30 Sep. 2021
• The same precepts apply even if some other language is the selected primary language.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 20 Dec 2024