Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: selects
IPA transcription: [səl'ɛkts]
Usage examples
  • She tests the flowers with her tongue; she selects a spot that will yield a good return.
  • He, at least, respects the economy of nature, selects his victims with careful foresight, and after death does honour to their remains.
  • A man may be the equal of all his countrymen save one, who is the master of all without distinction, and who selects equally from among them all the agents of his power.
  • Herself a lover of high places, the Thomisus selects as the site of her nest one of the upper twigs of the rock-rose, her regular hunting-ground, a twig withered by the heat and possessing a few dead leaves, which curl into a little cottage.
  • Propriety with difficulty tolerates these fancies of a spoiled child: but it applauds a woman of sense and taste, who is not in a hurry to follow the fashions and asks how long they will probably last before adopting them; finally, who selects and modifies them with success according to her size and figure.