Selection

//səˈlɛkʃən//

"Selection" in a Sentence (16 examples)

My mother prefers the arbitrary selection of the lottery machines over my lucky numbers.

It offers a mouth-watering selection of delights.

Rules in connection with staff selection are set as follows.

The old selection process for judges was very unfair.

Aiming at a fair selection, the test's subject will be the same for all of you scientists of the world: write a scientific publication in English!

Our random selection has chosen you as a possible winner!

He was a deist, of course, but his time was before the discovery of natural selection so he can be readily forgiven for that.

On the language website, he could not find the selection for Lingua Franca Nova.

Tom made a careful selection.

Are we ready to proceed now with the jury selection?

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The large number of good candidates made selection difficult.

My final selection was a 1934 Chateau Lafite.

I've brought a selection of fine cheeses to go with your wine.

For my next selection, I'll play Happy Birthday in F-sharp minor.

Our selection adjoined a sheep-run on the Darling Downs, and boasted […] a forest of box-trees, a stock-yard, and six acres under barley[.]

Slow though the process of selection may be, if feeble man can do much by his powers of artificial selection, I can see no limit to the amount of change, to the beauty and infinite complexity of the coadaptations between all organic beings, one with another and with their physical conditions of life, which may be effected in the long course of time by nature’s power of selection.

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