Example sentences for: decisive

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

  • Some critics of the Boskin report regard this as a decisive blow to its credibility.

  • But Mr. Greenspan's speech shows he is thinking of darker possibilities that would require prompt and decisive action."

  • Among the early story lines : The rioters were sending Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a message that he must negotiate or pay a price; relations between the Israeli army and Palestinian police--who fought alongside the rioters--have collapsed; Netanyahu was not a decisive ideologue but a aimless dawdler; concessions to the Palestinians, said the Likud government, would signal weakness and invite further attacks; and the conflagration placed Egypt in a precarious position as it tried to facilitate reconciliation amid Arab rage over Israel's actions.

  • But the decisive factor in the explosion of the Shepard story is the manner of his death.

  • Then Rothko made a decisive discovery, one of the turning points in the history of American art.


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