How to Use prerogative in a Sentence

prerogative

noun

• If you'd rather sell the tickets than use them, that's your prerogative.
• It's a writer's prerogative to decide the fate of her characters.
• The urge to move on is yours; the prerogative not to is theirs.
  — Washington Post, 28 June 2021
• In the end, the selections are the prerogative of the chair.
  — vanityfair.com, 19 Oct. 2017
• Refusal, like so much else, turns out to be the prerogative of men.
  — Claire Dederer, The Atlantic, 4 May 2021
• Wanting to live on the West Coast is a prerogative and a choice, not an insult.
  — Washington Post, 9 Feb. 2022
• Such was the prerogative of a place home to so many of the nation’s leading financiers.
  — Sarah Schweitzer, The Atlantic, 15 Aug. 2019
• Some may not like it, and to be honest, that’s their prerogative.
  — Sydney Scott, Essence, 9 July 2019
• That’s your prerogative as an artist, to change your mind and do something else.
  — Gary Graff, cleveland, 21 Mar. 2022
• Council Chairman Tom Quirk said Kamenetz has the prerogative to set the salaries for his top staff.
  — Pamela Wood, baltimoresun.com, 16 May 2017
• Though poor choices, of course, are the prerogative — if not the main purpose — of a misspent youth.
  — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 31 July 2020
• The best thing about bein’ Jason Kelce is the prerogative to have a little fun at football games.
  — Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 26 Jan. 2024
• Steve just stands there lookin’ cute, as is his prerogative.
  — Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 2 July 2022
• But that didn’t give you the prerogative to try to replace her ticket with a worse one, whatever the cost was to you.
  — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 5 July 2023
• His life, his prerogative to live it within the bounds of small-er-ish paychecks.
  — Washington Post, 19 Apr. 2021
• That is his prerogative as a citizen of the United States.
  — David Streitfeld, New York Times, 1 June 2018
• He’s also been clear that if members of the public don’t want to forgive him, that is their prerogative.
  — Jill Filipovic, CNN, 29 Nov. 2022
• Muschamp, exercising his coaching prerogative in a spring game, whistled the play dead as the ball hit the ground.
  — George Schroeder, USA TODAY, 5 Apr. 2018
• There’s someone at the top who only thinks about money and that’s their prerogative.
  — Michaela Zee, Variety, 22 Nov. 2023
• That is her prerogative; judges have a wide range of discretion.
  — Areva Martin, Time, 26 Jan. 2018
• This young bride is exercising her prerogative to change her mind at the very last minute.
  — New York Times, 13 Nov. 2020
• Image Image If some artists choose to share details of their lives through their art, that is their prerogative.
  — Jonathan Griffin, New York Times, 7 May 2024
• But that is their prerogative and right, and their money, so who is to question them about that really?
  — Jay Adkisson, Forbes, 10 Feb. 2024
• Two such goods are child welfare and parental prerogatives.
  — David McGarry, National Review, 15 Aug. 2023
• That's their prerogative and there's a whole lot of different reasons why guys do that.
  — Ben Steele, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 19 Apr. 2022
• Telling your daughter the truth was your prerogative and in the best interests of your family.
  — Washington Post, 20 Apr. 2022
• The idea is ridiculous, un-American, an affront to the prerogatives of a free people.
  — Heather Wilhelm, National Review, 10 Aug. 2023
• As the best player in a league with overflowing revenues, that is his prerogative.
  — Zack Meisel, cleveland.com, 4 July 2017
• But addressing it was one of Michael Diggins’ primary prerogatives when the former player came on board as a coach.
  — Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 12 Sep. 2024
• Even the crown continued to enjoy a few legacy prerogatives, including those over the hierarchies of the church and the universities.
  — Andrew Cockburn, Harper's Magazine, 20 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Nov 2024