How to Use discretionary in a Sentence

discretionary

adjective

• The appeal to the state Supreme Court is discretionary, meaning the justices can vote to hear the case or not hear the case.
  — Bill Rankin, ajc, 27 Apr. 2022
• Those goods ranged from food to discretionary items like home decor and lawn and gardens.
  — Paige McGlauflin, Fortune, 27 July 2022
• There’s still a legal process to go through with a lot of discretionary hurdles.
  — Nathan Deuel, Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2021
• The appeal is discretionary, which means the Court can decide whether or not to address it.
  — Jessie Balmert, The Enquirer, 10 Jan. 2023
• At the same time a discretionary 13.5% grant scheme will be merged into the offset system.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 9 May 2023
• Yeah, so there are some signs that discretionary spending is low.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 5 Sep. 2024
• Regulators are tossing due process and the rule of law to the curb to make way for broad and discretionary power.
  — Rachel Chiu, National Review, 25 Oct. 2021
• This caps payments at 20% of your discretionary income and lasts 25 years.
  — Nerd Wallet, oregonlive, 19 July 2021
• Consumer discretionary stocks, down 2.7% across the board, were again the worst performers.
  — Lisa Kailai Han, CNBC, 23 Oct. 2024
• Any of this trio could also take home the discretionary Chronometry Prize too.
  — Elizabeth Doerr, Robb Report, 7 Nov. 2023
• In the justice system, judges have the discretionary power to ask a jury to keep trying to reach a verdict.
  — Gina Kaufman, Detroit Free Press, 15 July 2024
• Um, this was through a city discretionary fund for council members.
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 11 May 2022
• Members also have discretionary budgets to spend on the projects or services of their choice.
  — Jon Healey, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2022
• Consider holding one the first weekend of the month when many people get paid and have more discretionary cash.
  — Samantha S. Thorpe, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 July 2021
• Some, but not all, of that spending was drawn from the discretionary funding established after the cut to the LAPD budget last year.
  — Kevin Rector, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2021
• The decline in sales for Yum Brands may in part be tied to a decline in discretionary spending from consumers more broadly.
  — Francisco Velasquez, Quartz, 1 May 2024
• My salary is broken up by base, bonus, and additional discretionary bonus (paid out in Q1 of each year).
  — Bon Appétit Contributor, Bon Appétit, 20 Oct. 2023
• When gas prices rise, the cost of filling up the tank chips away at consumers’ discretionary spending and puts the household budgets of the most vulnerable in the red.
  — Justin Worland, Time, 24 Mar. 2022
• Then, in 1995, the Hubble Space Telescope’s director used his discretionary time to look what was then registered as a blank spot in the sky.
  — Tim Fernholz, Quartz, 19 July 2022
• Customers had less share of wallet for discretionary spend.
  — David Moin, WWD, 21 Jan. 2025
• The 36-year-old is a discretionary double pick and will team with Jessica Pegula in Tokyo.
  — Jeff Metcalfe, The Arizona Republic, 3 July 2021
• Schools can buy more counselor and nurse days using their own discretionary money.
  — Kristen Taketa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Mar. 2023
• In exchange for a hike in the debt limit until early 2025, Democrats agreed to roughly freeze discretionary spending for two years.
  — David Sivak, Washington Examiner, 6 June 2023
• Newsom and lawmakers could send most of the discretionary surplus back to the people who coughed it up to Sacramento.
  — Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2022
• That's bad news for consumer discretionary and tech stocks, Morgan Stanley says.
  — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2021
• Consumer discretionary stocks were weaker too, led lower by the auto stocks and travel and leisure names.
  — Jeff Marks, CNBC, 7 Jan. 2025
• Congress awards a little more than half of all discretionary spending to the Pentagon.
  — Fox News, 10 Jan. 2023
• In the end, total discretionary spending set by Congress is expected to come in at about $1.66 trillion for the full entire year.
  — Kevin Freking, Fortune, 7 Mar. 2024
• That means less discretionary spending and more saving.
  — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 14 Mar. 2025
• Consumers continued to spend on the essentials, such as housing and gas, while also putting their discretionary dollars toward eating out and other leisure activities at hotels.
  — Alicia Wallace, CNN, 28 Feb. 2025