How to Use selective in a Sentence

selective

adjective

• The club is selective in choosing members.
• The college has a highly selective admissions process.
• The drill teams are selective, and many who apply don’t make the cut.
  — Justin Jouvenal, Washington Post, 20 Oct. 2022
• The selective oenophiles in your life may want their own say on what their gift should be.
  — Hannah Selinger, wsj.com, 29 Sep. 2023
• Yet, the dish is approachable–for the more selective eaters.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 26 Oct. 2023
• But the process was selective — not all fans who signed up got access to the presale.
  — Erin Pflaumer, CBS News, 15 Nov. 2022
• The most selective schools had a more than 50% drop in enrollment from those groups.
  — Ira Porter, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Apr. 2023
• Her son, Khadim Mbacke, was on the radar of Ivy League and other highly selective schools.
  — New York Times, 11 June 2022
• And a little selective shopping could earn you the MVP with not only guests, but your spouse.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune, 6 Feb. 2024
• Those who found success in the Major Leagues, like Hayes, were more selective.
  — Wilson Moore, The Indianapolis Star, 28 June 2022
• Nearly all go on to selective high schools and four-year colleges.
  — Kelly Field, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Jan. 2024
• But since giving birth, she's been more selective about her projects.
  — Emily Blackwood, Peoplemag, 22 May 2024
• Valley is selective with his dog friends and prefers a home without cats.
  — Shelter Staff, Kansas City Star, 17 July 2024
• And for high school, Banks raised the bar for grades needed to get top priority at the city’s most selective schools.
  — Laura Meckler, Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2022
• Now, this could be a complete case of selective editing.
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 30 Mar. 2023
• The sheer number of art fairs means that many galleries have to be highly selective about which fairs to attend and which to miss.
  — Pearl Lam, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
• Zach Freemantle and Jerome Hunter need to be more selective from deep.
  — The Enquirer, 22 Sep. 2022
• But what about the high schools where lots of students are gunning for selective colleges?
  — Michael J. Petrilli, Forbes, 12 Sep. 2024
• Like the rest of the NBA, James has become much more selective in his shots, taking fewer mid-range jumpers in favor of threes.
  — Mitchell Thorson, USA Today, 8 Feb. 2023
• That rosy view of the Trump economy involved a lot of selective forgetting — more about that in a minute.
  — Paul Krugman, The Mercury News, 24 Jan. 2024
• There are Western schools and Eastern schools, schools with high admission rates and schools that are selective, schools on the beach and schools in the mountains.
  — WSJ, 27 Sep. 2022
• The gene gives them a selective advantage in places like Africa, where malaria is rampant.
  — Gina Kolata, New York Times, 15 Nov. 2023
• Later in the game, with the Dodgers behind, Betts and Freeman were less selective, however.
  — Dylan Hernández, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2023
• Shapiro is selective with statistics to put the Clinton record in the most favorable light.
  — Robert Kuttner, The New York Review of Books, 21 July 2022
• Over the last five years, selective enforcement calls made up about 20 percent of the total calls logged at the library, data shows.
  — Lyndsay Winkley, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 May 2023
• The more selective approach is welcome news to Randy Simpson, who frets about the future due to the persistent drought in much of southern Utah.
  — Mark Eddington, The Salt Lake Tribune, 14 Aug. 2023
• In the days leading up to the May 6-7 trial, Cummings also sought to have the charges dismissed on the grounds of selective prosecution.
  — Jim Riccioli, Journal Sentinel, 8 May 2024
• My sense is that students who are trying to get into selective schools are still feeling pressure to take the test.
  — The New Yorker, 24 May 2022
• More care and selective curb skimming work better here.
  — Dan Edmunds, Car and Driver, 26 Mar. 2023
• Anecdotes shared on retailer conference calls have drawn a portrait of a more selective and cautious shopper.
  — Christina Cheddar Berk, CNBC, 8 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 1 Oct 2024