Example sentences for: selective

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

  • But it's also highly selective, often preoccupying itself with one modish ethical issue to the exclusion of others that are equally serious.

  • “If that could be done in a selective fashion, maybe that could be introduced in appetite control.

  • As this work is not mentioned in Contemporary English: Word Lists, one must assume that its existence was unknown to the author; but that should not put off those who have need of a list that is not only more up to date but is also more selective and, on the grounds of frequency, probably more useful.

  • If you give up selective disclosure, and create a truly free flow of information between companies and all of their investors, then the possibility of making easy profits (either by getting in before everyone hears the good news, or getting out before everyone hears the bad) disappears.

  • Thus, while selective interactions and functional overlap between duplicates declines relatively slowly over evolutionary time, the potential for recombinatorial interactions between paralogues is relatively short-lived.


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