SELECT in a Sentence
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184 example sentences for SELECT, such as:
1. Come and help me select a good place for our camp.
2. She lets her son select his own Christmas present.
3. The president met with a select group of senior ministers.
4. I will not accept if nominated, and will serve if selected.
5. Through the week Carol heard how select an attendance there was to be.
2. She lets her son select his own Christmas present.
3. The president met with a select group of senior ministers.
4. I will not accept if nominated, and will serve if selected.
5. Through the week Carol heard how select an attendance there was to be.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of SELECT
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select
v. pick out, select, or choose from a number of alternatives
a. selected or chosen for special qualifications
Classic Sentence: (117 in 8 pages)
1 Just as Ellen had done, other plantation mistresses throughout the South had put the pickaninnies through courses of training and elimination to select the best of them for the positions of greater responsibility.
2 Through the week Carol heard how select an attendance there was to be.
3 He opened a bottle of wine, of which he kept a small and select supply in a buffet of his own.
4 He regretted that she did not feel inclined to go with him and select new fixtures.
5 Monsieur and Madame Ratignolle made much of the Colonel, installing him as the guest of honor and engaging him at once to dine with them the following Sunday, or any day which he might select.
6 The hunter, like the savage whose place he filled, seemed to select among the blind signs of their wild route, with a species of instinct, seldom abating his speed, and never pausing to deliberate.
7 I have devoted my creator, the select specimen of all that is worthy of love and admiration among men, to misery; I have pursued him even to that irremediable ruin.
8 I am attended by a select body of our boys; the butcher, by two other butchers, a young publican, and a sweep.
9 Vronsky intentionally avoided that select crowd of the upper world, which was moving and talking with discreet freedom before the pavilions.
10 These two ladies were the chief representatives of a select new Petersburg circle, nicknamed, in imitation of some imitation, les sept merveilles du monde.
11 Sviazhsky comically imitated the tearful discourse of the marshal, and observed, addressing Nevyedovsky, that his excellency would have to select another more complicated method of auditing the accounts than tears.
12 Secondly, any knight proposing to combat, might, if he pleased, select a special antagonist from among the challengers, by touching his shield.
13 The two sisters at once called on Mrs Bolton, in a newish house in a row, quite select for Tevershall.
14 And though it was the Signora who paid him and gave him orders, he rather hoped it would be the young milady who would select him for l'amore.
15 The initials were, of course, of the highest importance, but more valuable still was it to know that within a week he had settled his bill at one of the most select London hotels.
Example Sentence: (67 in 5 pages)
1 If possible, select pairs of fish that already have a track record for breeding.
2 The Government has pooh-poohed the idea that primary schools will begin to select pupils.
3 Come and help me select a good place for our camp.
4 There was a choice of four prizes, and the winner could select one of them.
5 The revelation was discussed at closed sessions of the Senate select committee on intelligence, chaired by Democrat David Boren.
6 A newspaper reader can select what he is interested in and skip what he thinks is boring or irrelevant.
7 Look at the on-screen menu and select the "File" option.
8 She lets her son select his own Christmas present.
9 We will select a winner, publish the card in the paper, and send it on to the national finals.
10 The yardage on the card often bears little relation to the club you select.
11 The president met with a select group of senior ministers.
12 Please select the appropriate feedback form from the list below so that your comments will be directed to the appropriate staff for a quick response.
13 I do not envy the judges who have to select this year's Miss America from this collection of female pulchritude.
14 This is a very select area; you have to be rich to live here.
15 I will not accept if nominated, and will serve if selected.