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Example sentences for: opted

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Last year, she opted to give a recital in Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall, rather than in the larger Avery Fisher Hall (to the chagrin of the presenter).
So I opted instead for an adjustable circumference version, a little strip of vinyl with snaps for $11.
The story points out that the established and quite successful DNA system in Britain has opted for a wide range of criminal samples as well as mass screening.
Still, we should be grateful that Waldseemuller opted for Vespucci's first name, for disguising the dull Henry in the voluptuous Amerigo is nothing compared to what Italians have done over the centuries when giving each other surnames.
At a time when the Kodak camera and roll film (first introduced in 1888) made the instantaneous "snapshot aesthetic" possible, Degas opted for an older approach: the pose held for two or three minutes, the long exposure, the "atmospheric" effects of lamplight on a black ground.