Example Sentences

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The way a person speaks, dresses, and acts is constitutionally defined as “speech,” and the government cannot broadly and discriminately ban certain expressions.

From Slate • Apr. 3, 2023

If consumption is virtuous, only those with the economic means to consume discriminately can have virtue.

From Slate • May 3, 2013

There are titles to treasure and those to avoid among the 27 features and 11 shorts, many of which have been cherry-picked and rather less discriminately culled from other festivals, including Cannes and Berlin.

From New York Times • Mar. 23, 2010

The real loss lies in what America has yet to find: a way to use power discriminately and effectively.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was costly and unique, a collector's room, discriminately arranged, and the owner, motioning his guest to a chair, was worthy of his surroundings.

From Princess Maritza by Brebner, Percy James