How to use "selective" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "selective" in popular movie and book plots

  • They just make up a story about them having been the target of a selective ambush.  - Les Hussards
  • Concurrently, Loki prepares Asgard for invasion through selective assassination and by neutralizing Heimdall, the city's guardian.  - Siege (comics)
  • Both are shocked that so many men are being trained as Marines compared to the pre-war size of their highly selective Corps.  - Marine Raiders (film)
  • The team is now considering the diagnoses of choriocarcinoma and selective immunoglobulin A deficiency.  - Dying Changes Everything
  • The survivors on Mars engaged in selective breeding programs that created an advanced, immortal physical form.  - To Mars and Providence
  • Weather presenter Jin-su is involved in a car accident, and though physically unhurt, he is left with a case of selective amnesia.  - Over the Rainbow (film)
  • They propose to do this by adding selective poisons to certain food shipments to grossly over-populated areas.  - The Winnowing
  • Her family owns a successful café business, and as such, she is heavily selective about what she drinks.  - Pixie Pop
  • UNY Film School is an intensive, selective program in New York City.  - Filmic Achievement
  • The novel explores and centres around the way that people have selective memories as a precursor to ignorance.  - Ignorance (novel)
  • Through a process of selective breeding, mankind is perfecting the perfectly average human being.  - Harrison Bergeron (film)
  • They struggle to live together over generations as Doro attempts to create a new race through a selective breeding program.  - Patternist series
  • The story concerns a girl struggling with accusations of Tourette's syndrome and Tourette's and with selective mutes.  - Icy Sparks
  • Marge consoles him by telling him he is a member of a very selective club: the Simpson family.  - Homer the Great
  • Wolcott has paid for transportation of most of the prostitutes, in order to cater to his selective tastes.  - Deadwood (TV series)
  • After retrieving the sample, Garneuax reveals his true intentions to destroy the sample and implement a policy of selective starvation.  - G-Saviour

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