selective

In a sentence

Six example sentences with selective, each labelled with its topic.

• He is selective about assignments now, turning down four weddings for every one he agrees to shoot.

  Photography

• The forestry crew was selective, marking only diseased trunks and leaving every healthy oak on the slope standing.

  Environment

• Attention is selective by design; a driver notices the one moving cyclist and ignores forty parked cars.

  Psychology

• The lender became selective after the losses, approving one mortgage in five where it once approved four.

  Finance

• He grew selective with his threes, waiting for open looks instead of firing from anywhere past the arc.

  Basketball

• The accelerator is selective, taking eight companies from two thousand applications each spring.

  Startups

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More Academic words

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• retained
• acceleration
• prospect
• creation
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• justified