How to Use chosen in a Sentence

chosen

adjective
  • Some fans think the chosen royal name is a nod to the famed CW teen show.
    Teen Vogue, 8 May 2019
  • And, by the way, to also cast a vote for their chosen candidates.
    Lori Weisberg, sandiegouniontribune.com, 2 June 2018
  • Don’t blame the winners, who were, more often than not, well chosen and well spoken.
    Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2022
  • To get there, the scientists had to raise the chosen crab, born in 2015 from one of the crabs harvested a year earlier.
    Washington Post, 11 Oct. 2021
  • More money in our chosen career path is a goal (unspoken or not) for just about all of us.
    Kate Lopaze, USA TODAY, 11 Dec. 2017
  • Griffin says that even her chosen language works well with the language of the internet.
    Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2020
  • De La Haye is a marketing major and the videos are a good learning tool for him in his chosen career path.
    Kevin Spain, USA TODAY, 21 Sep. 2017
  • De La Haye is a marketing major and the videos are a good learning tool for him in his chosen career path.
    Kevin Spain, USA TODAY, 12 June 2017
  • While timing is clearly a consideration, so too is the chosen method of getting the boys and their coach out of the cave.
    NBC News, 7 July 2018
  • Or about Jesse Barrett, the very model of a husband who supports his wife in her chosen career.
    William McGurn, WSJ, 28 Sep. 2020
  • And the team’s chosen style of play leads to a misunderstanding: Virginia players can, in fact, dunk.
    Usa Today Sports, USA TODAY, 8 Mar. 2018
  • But this oldest form of warfare has become the chosen tactic to end urban fights in Iraq and Syria.
    John Spencer, WSJ, 19 July 2017
  • The Hates' sound was wiry and frenetic, befitting their chosen style.
    Andrew Dansby, Houston Chronicle, 31 Jan. 2018
  • The chosen alternative of rapidly reading a letter over the phone should have raised red flags.
    John Marty, Twin Cities, 12 July 2019
  • His chosen ruins are not the grand British ones (no wrecked abbeys or Stonehenge) but eight sites closer to total oblivion.
    Colin Thubron, The New York Review of Books, 29 Dec. 2022
  • The cost of a fitness court varies, depending on how the chosen location needs to be developed.
    Morgan Voigt, Washington Post, 2 Oct. 2019
  • The result is a blow to Trump, who saw his chosen candidates lose in both the primary and general election.
    David A. Graham, The Atlantic, 12 Dec. 2017
  • Much of the impetus for chosen-family-friendly sick leave laws has come from gay people.
    Jennifer Peltz, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Mar. 2018
  • To get there, the scientists had to raise the chosen crab, which then gave birth in the lab to dozens of healthy babies, proving her genetic viability.
    Christine Condon, baltimoresun.com, 8 Oct. 2021
  • In the age of first looks and couples walking the aisle together, the veil has become more of a chosen accessory than a wedding essential.
    Hannah Huber, Vogue, 18 July 2019
  • Error 0: The chosen viewer will get to watch from anywhere they please, according to USDish's website.
    Houston Chronicle, 3 Mar. 2020
  • But capital gains also reflect the chosen timing of the seller and movements in the stockmarket, making them volatile.
    The Economist, 28 Nov. 2019
  • Of course, some countries in the region don’t approve of our chosen path of parliamentary democracy.
    Ian Bremmer, Time, 9 Oct. 2017
  • State Bird Provisions and The Progress are donating a flat rate while other restaurants are donating $1 per guest, sales of a chosen dish, or a percentage of of sales that night.
    Jessica Yadegaran, The Mercury News, 25 July 2019
  • The only (totally arbitrary) criterion for SI.com’s list of sleepers is that the chosen teams fall outside of the top 20 of our preseason Top 25.
    Chris Johnson, SI.com, 11 Aug. 2017
  • Even if his chosen candidates don’t come out on top, Floyd is proud his example may have inspired others such as 17-year-old Pacheco Jr. to pursue politics at a young age.
    Carissa Lamkahouan, Houston Chronicle, 2 Mar. 2020
  • True to his chosen stage name, the Australian singer-songwriter Simon Okely makes music that often feels fit for a romantic spin around the room at a late-night wedding party.
    New York Times, 14 Sep. 2017
  • His operatives had long seen to it that people voted for Daley and his chosen candidates.
    Steffen W. Schmidt, The Conversation, 27 Dec. 2019
  • The chosen pumpkin was a 1,790-pound monster provided by Joel Holland, a local farmer who grew it specifically for the festival.
    Dan Nosowitz, Smithsonian, 26 Oct. 2017
  • This unusual access to the inner lives of others was surely an asset in her chosen career, fiction writing.
    Washington Post, 29 Mar. 2022

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