In a sentence
Six example sentences with select, each labelled with its topic.
Only select cuts go into the ageing fridge, and the butcher rejects anything with uneven marbling.
Cooking
The hotel keeps a select group of rooms on the top floor, larger and quieter than the rest.
Travel
The fund invests in a select tier of bonds, buying only issuers with the highest credit ratings available.
Finance
The select squad trains twice as often as the regional team and travels to tournaments across three states.
Basketball
The firm offers its select clients a private line to a partner, and everyone else waits for the general desk.
Business
A select group of drawings, chosen from four hundred, travels to Vienna while the rest stay in storage.
Art
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Found in these word lists
Found in 9 published word listsAuthoritative
- Academic Keyword List (Paquot 2010)
- Academic Word List (Coxhead 2000)
- University Word List (Xue & Nation 1984)
- Business English Academic Word List
- New General Service List (Browne et al. 2013)
- Medical Academic Word List
- Nursing Word List
- Israeli Psychometric English dictionary (Campus IL / NITE)
- Science Vocabulary List
Each source is a published word list that contains select. No exam board publishes an official GRE, GMAT or SAT list; GMAT words come from GRE lists and the Academic Word List.