How to Use discretionary in a Sentence

discretionary

adjective

• Those goods ranged from food to discretionary items like home decor and lawn and gardens.
  — Paige McGlauflin, Fortune, 27 July 2022
• 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
• 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
• Members also have discretionary budgets to spend on the projects or services of their choice.
  — Jon Healey, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2022
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Dollar Tree for instance sells lots of discretionary items like party goods.
  — Jinjoo Lee, WSJ, 26 July 2022
• And of course this deal is only for discretionary spending, which is projected to be roughly balanced anyway in the long run.
  — The Editors, National Review, 9 Jan. 2024
• Restaurant sales were up 0.3%, a sign that Americans are still willing to spend on discretionary items, such as eating out.
  — Christopher Rugaber, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2024
• In Venezuela, the company can’t use piecework pay or discretionary bonuses.
  — Geoff Colvin, Fortune, 19 July 2023
• But the concierge is also armed with a discretionary budget to extend random acts of kindness to passengers.
  — Chadner Navarro, Travel + Leisure, 20 Mar. 2023
• But Williams Sonoma’s portfolio of nice-to-have brands could hurt the company if discretionary budgets get even tighter.
  — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 30 Nov. 2023
• In fact, high levels of emotional health and discretionary effort are the two measures of the employee experience that set the best apart from the rest.
  — Michael Bush, Fortune, 4 Apr. 2023
• Quarterly profit and sales dropped to open the year as sales began to flag in March, forcing the New York department store to cut prices on clothes and other discretionary items.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 1 June 2023
• The easing of gas prices is expected to help with in-store visits now that consumers have more discretionary dollars in their pockets.
  — Vicki M. Young, Sourcing Journal, 11 July 2024
• To stay on track, Anderson keeps a limited amount of cash in his wallet for discretionary expenses and writes down what it can be used for on a sticky note that stays with the cash.
  — Kimberly Palmer Of Nerdwallet, Quartz, 12 Feb. 2024
• For example, Harris said, the district could give leaders at the high-needs schools more discretionary funding or pay staff higher salaries to stay in those schools.
  — Rory Linnane, Journal Sentinel, 10 June 2024
• The money, paid by taxpayers, flowed into the 5th Circuit’s discretionary fund.
  — Anat Rubin, ProPublica, 4 Nov. 2023
• The second thing is to reduce discretionary spending as much as possible.
  — Vulture, 2 May 2023
• Middle-class consumers who once frequented such places are cutting back on discretionary spending, experts say, and the high price of goods and labor are squeezing profits.
  — Caroline Petrow-Cohen, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2024
• But for the wealthiest one-fifth, the share of their spending on discretionary purchases actually increased.
  — Christopher Rugaber, Fortune, 18 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 24 Nov 2024