Example Sentences

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State officials have been selecting projects through a rigorous process, and some funds have yet to be allocated.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 3, 2025

The friends have been selecting photographs of old Tiger Bay to be displayed at National Museum Cardiff.

From BBC • May 24, 2025

So for that same seven decades, plant breeders have been selecting seeds from the uniformly green tomatoes, crossing them with other uniformly green ones and producing an uber-race of perfect visual specimens.

From Time • Jul. 2, 2012

I assume that you will have already taught Nelly to canter whenever you wish her to do so, though she may have been selecting her own lead.

From Patroclus and Penelope A Chat in the Saddle by Dodge, Theodore Ayrault

The men have been selecting sweethearts instead; thus I must wait here tomorrow, that being the "Soog" or market day, when I shall purchase my camels and milch goats.

From The Albert N'Yanza, Great Basin of the Nile by Baker, Samuel White, Sir