How to Use cherry-pick in a Sentence

cherry-pick

verb

• Even the politicians who attended the rallies cherry-picked which parts to respond to.
  — Em Readman, refinery29.com, 7 May 2024
• Her job: monitoring Western broadcasts to cherry-pick news that showed the West in a bad light to air on the network’s shows.
  — Constant Méheut, New York Times, 24 Mar. 2023
• Our favorite way to play that growth isn’t by trying to cherry-pick which retailer will win at the online game.
  — Brett Owens, Forbes, 16 Oct. 2024
• There, shoppers could cherry-pick from different eras to curate their looks.
  — Boutayna Chokrane, Vogue, 30 Oct. 2023
• There are also specific savings on planned sailings, so peruse their site to cherry-pick the best deal and remember to read all the fine print.
  — Dan Koday, Travel + Leisure, 3 Dec. 2024
• Many Ivy League students have learned to cherry-pick easy-grading professors.
  — Karin Klein, The Mercury News, 13 Nov. 2024
• What to watch: The trend could widen health disparities as doctors flee to cash-pay businesses and cherry-pick patients.
  — Tina Reed, Axios, 7 Oct. 2024
• Threads is a brand extension versus a totally new product, and the early joiners (like me) were easy to cherry-pick at launch.
  — Jennifer Jolly, USA TODAY, 11 July 2023
• Programming isn’t only about cherry-picking the best film.
  — Zac Ntim, Deadline, 3 Nov. 2024
• Boston even cherry-picked some strategy from the Warriors.
  — Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 18 June 2024
• As the genre turns 50, its most rewarding songs wisely cherry-pick from the past while staying true to rap’s reputation as a harbinger of what’s next.
  — Pitchfork, 11 Dec. 2023
• Democrats warn that Trump supporters would cherry-pick clips of the video to spin conspiracy theories.
  — Scott MacFarlane, CBS News, 20 Dec. 2023
• Fox said Dominion had mischaracterized the record and cherry-picked quotes stripped of key context.
  — David Bauder, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Feb. 2023
• The speed at which the Saudi league has been able to cherry-pick such familiar, if fading, names from Europe’s elite clubs has made the country’s ambition feel like an inevitability.
  — Ahmed Al Omran, New York Times, 13 July 2023
• His peers criticized him for cherry-picking data, and his comments drew backlash from healthcare providers who were overwhelmed by the strain on U.S. hospitals.
  — Claire Bugos, Verywell Health, 27 Nov. 2024
• The San Sebastian film festival has cherry-picked the best of Cannes’ competition lineup for its Perlak section this year.
  — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Aug. 2024
• Taxpayers deserve an independent and complete review — not cherry-picking topics and then putting a thumb on the scale.
  — Daniel Borenstein, The Mercury News, 29 Mar. 2024
• Enck accused the plastics industry of cherry-picking research, too.
  — Emily Le Coz, USA TODAY, 1 May 2023
• Prosecutors, however, said Trump’s defense had cherry-picked two of Chutkan’s statements out of context and misapplied the law to wrongly argue that the judge was biased against him.
  — Rachel Weiner, Washington Post, 27 Sep. 2023
• Well, and speaking of which, some of your Republican colleagues have cherry-picked some of the images to frankly further some conspiracy theories.
  — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 26 Nov. 2023
• In its second year under Hitchcock’s leadership, the festival seems to be settling into a role of cherry-picking highlights from the year and bringing them to audiences in L.A.
  — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2024
• But potential 2027 election rivals like Ruffin are also cherry-picking elements of her rhetoric to make their own case to voters.
  — Ania Nussbaum, Bloomberg.com, 2 June 2023
• Presidents sometimes bolster their claims of a mandate by cherry-picking polling results.
  — Jenny Jarvie, Los Angeles Times, 29 Nov. 2024
• The Biden administration pushed back on the findings by Republicans, calling it a partisan effort that sought to cherry-pick facts ahead of an election.
  — Anne Flaherty, ABC News, 8 Sep. 2024
• Ruth Holton-Hudson mischaracterizes the Exxon lawsuits, cherry-picks the stock data and blames the fossil fuel companies for climate change.
  — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 9 May 2024
• Fox News, which denies any wrongdoing, has accused Dominion of cherry-picking emails to present a self-serving narrative about what the right-wing network did after the 2020 election.
  — Oliver Darcy, CNN, 29 Mar. 2023
• Protasiewicz has said her opponents are cherry-picking cases in her record, and defense attorneys note some defendants are in jail for as long as two years awaiting trial or a plea deal.
  — Molly Beck, Journal Sentinel, 27 Mar. 2023
• Defense attorneys have long said there was never a plan to attack the Capitol and prosecutors' case was largely built on online messages cherry-picked out of context.
  — Lindsay Whitehurst, BostonGlobe.com, 3 June 2023
• The drafters based this assertion partially on a tendentious and cherry-picked misreading of a study of Oregon Medicaid enrollees published in 2012.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 9 Mar. 2023
• The governor cherry-picks data that supports his grand proclamations and excludes data that presents a different picture.
  — Fred Medinger, Baltimore Sun, 5 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Feb 2025