Example sentences for: corrective

How can you use “corrective” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The helplessness of Lucia in this fantasy, and the idea of "Bacchus ravisht by his tree," may make us uneasy on feminist grounds; but the corrective reality of the last line--the physical fact of the helpless erection--corrects and undermines the imagination's unreal fantasy of domination.

  • (1) communicate the results consistently to all interested parties, (2) make the results available to the public, (3) build a readily available subject-matter record for future use, and (4) facilitate follow-up to determine whether appropriate corrective measures have been taken when needed.

  • Katie Hafner and Matthew Lyon, authors of Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet , dedicate their book to him, although that, unfortunately, is the grandest of their corrective gestures.

  • 2) Even if an employee does not suffer adverse job consequences for rejecting a supervisor's advances, the employer can be held liable unless a) the employer shows it "exercised reasonable care to prevent and correct promptly any sexually harassing behavior" and b) the employee "unreasonably failed to take advantage of any preventive or corrective opportunities."

  • Even so, in the early '80s it built six god-awful "super-ferries" that required more than $5 million in corrective repairs.


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