How to Use corrective in a Sentence

corrective

adjective

• She had corrective surgery on her knee this past summer.
• People with bad eyesight usually need to wear corrective lenses, such as eyeglasses or contact lenses.
• The list of corrective to-do’s for teachers (and parents) is long.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Oct. 2019
• The speaker has no role in putting out any kind of corrective action.
  — CBS News, 20 Apr. 2023
• Neither hears the truth, as often as is wholesome, and both suffer for the want of the corrective.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 9 Oct. 2023
• But, to achieve any kind of major corrective action, emissions must be slashed by the end of the decade.
  — Dinah Voyles Pulver, Sarah Bowman, USA TODAY, 10 Aug. 2021
• The Chase Bank branch quickly took corrective steps after the tragedy.
  — Devoun Cetoute, Miami Herald, 8 June 2024
• The state and city negotiated the corrective plan that held off the threat of a total state takeover of BPS.
  — Adria Watson, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Sep. 2022
• Some of this is just corrective action by the current regime.
  — John Canzano, oregonlive, 4 Feb. 2022
• In 2021, they were told to submit a corrective action plan.
  — Will McCarthy, The Mercury News, 25 Mar. 2024
• And the intended response has to be both durable and corrective.
  — Elizabeth Cooney, STAT, 17 Feb. 2021
• To me, the nightly BirdCast map is a corrective to our human-centric view of the planet.
  — Ty Burr, New York Times, 18 Apr. 2023
• To me, the nightly BirdCast map has come to mean a great deal, not least a corrective to our human-centric view of the planet.
  — Ty Burr, New York Times, 18 Apr. 2023
• Dan explored the idea of corrective surgery to fix his injured back but the results of those kinds of surgeries were often hit and miss.
  — Lucia Osborne-Crowley, refinery29.com, 6 Sep. 2022
• The texture of their lives offers a corrective to erasure.
  — Dara T. Mathis, The Atlantic, 13 Nov. 2023
• As part of a corrective action plan to avoid a state takeover, JCPS must tweak its assignment plan by fall 2020.
  — Olivia Krauth, The Courier-Journal, 14 Jan. 2020
• This would be a corrective to that, as well as a much-deserved coronation.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 11 Mar. 2023
• Runion said that even after corrective jaw surgery that cost tens of thousands of dollars, some of her teeth may still be at risk.
  — Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 7 Jan. 2024
• Instead, the officials funded some of the research that led to the corrective eye surgery technique.
  — Katie Hunt, CNN, 14 Sep. 2022
• There was no other word for it, as if a corrective current flowed from the house through the dusty tile and into her hand and, truly, her whole body.
  — Dana Spiotta, Vogue, 20 Apr. 2021
• Dean and Hines would not provide the further corrective action made by the district and Hamilton.
  — Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic, 30 Aug. 2022
• The surgery didn't go as planned, so Joe had corrective surgery that resulted in seven screws and a plate being put in his left foot.
  — Dana Rose Falcone, PEOPLE.com, 16 Nov. 2021
• If the pilot does not (or is unable to) take corrective action the autopilot takes over and flies the plane onto a safe flight path.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 24 July 2019
• Currently, of course, the corrective price action has been felt by some areas, but not all.
  — Frank Cappelleri, CNBC, 24 Dec. 2024
• At its best, the Christian church has been a corrective to people’s loneliness.
  — Laura Turner, Vox, 2 Aug. 2019
• The most basic corrective measure is to insulate the lines to prevent the dripping.
  — Boston.com Real Estate, 12 Sep. 2019
• The district is required to change its plan in some capacity by the fall to meet a corrective action plan that helped JCPS avoid a state takeover.
  — Olivia Krauth, The Courier-Journal, 8 June 2020
• For the first six months of my life, specialists were focused on corrective measures that just weren’t working.
  — Hunter Woodhall and Rachel Chang, Travel + Leisure, 6 Feb. 2024
• Buyers who have sought relief from the city have gotten nowhere: Emails, phone calls and meetings have prompted no corrective action.
  — Linda Robertson, Miami Herald, 26 Jan. 2025
• The witnesses told the company the parachutist did not appear to take corrective actions, and a reserve parachute was not deployed.
  — Greg Wehner, Fox News, 27 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 22 Feb 2025