How To Use By choice In A Sentence

  • I wouldn't have come to this bar by choice!
  • A farmer by choice, Kevin has also written a number of books and essays and is a regular contributor to newspapers and magazines in Northern Ireland.
  • The people really for it are the ones just wanting a handout from the government, the rest of us are already PAYING for healthcare either in the form of insurance or out of our pockets (BY CHOICE) as it is. Baucus plans changes to his own health care proposal
  • I was trying to convince myself that I wanted to remain childless, as so many people I know are forgoing children by choice. The Powerful Equation of Love
  • By choice or through compulsion, many - though perhaps fewer than in the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries - embarked on what seemed a surer path to salvation by entering monasteries and convents.
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  • The Pew researchers speculate that this is because more women than men are unemployed by choice, although the study didn't attempt to tease apart that difference.
  • There are basslines that buzz and woof, balanced by choice eastern melodies, classical Spanish guitar and operatic vocals; but none of this is particularly original or strong.
  • One person deliberately, by choice, misleads another person without any notification that deception will occur.
  • --Terri, I've seen some theologians argue for "annihilationism" of the individual soul, perhaps by choice, to choose nothingness instead of choosing God. Failing the Fundamentalist Final
  • They show her in control of her image: a blonde by choice and, with her cocksure grin, anticipating the effect she would exert on a nation of pubescent boys - and girls, too.
  • And we are part of Europe by geography, by history, by economics and by choice.
  • The ones who were still working the mines by choice were paid at the end of the week, I found out.
  • John helped his father by choice.
  • This does not mean that the pace bowler has spent the winter at home by choice. Times, Sunday Times
  • John helped his father by choice.
  • It's also true that bigots assume that sexual preference is strictly a conscious decision, and use that erroneous assumption as a bludgeon against gay people as "immoral by choice", and as an article of faith in their efforts (usually destructive) to "deprogram" gay kids. Richardson Explains Remark On Homosexuality: "I Always Love The Word 'Choice'"
  • Some of them, by genetic fluke or bad luck, are not here even by choice, unconscious or no.
  • This does not mean that the pace bowler has spent the winter at home by choice. Times, Sunday Times
  • I am not a photographer by choice but by fate.
  • In Chiapas, a few thousand Lacandons live by choice in the deepest jungle.
  • So, living in London and desperately weak of will, you get poisoned by choice; overwhelming and almost infinitesimal choice.
  • Nobody starved, nobody even went hungry for a day, unless by choice in the fasting month of Ramadan. KARA KUSH
  • I'm a Texan by birth and by choice in many ways, but I've never been prouder of being a New Yorker than I am now.
  • By choice l looked like a complete pillock for two years.
  • But one may topwork a tree of almost any age, preferably a tree less than twenty-five years of age; and by choice I should say trees not more than ten years of age. Northern Nut Growers Association, Report Of The Proceedings At The Tenth Annual Meeting. Battle Creek, Michigan, December 9 and 10, 1919
  • They tend to wear trendy figure-hugging clothes, some have a lot of facial hair or tattoos, while the older ones are often bald by choice.
  • The pineys are a collection of Appalachian-esque people so inbred and ill-omened they are basically cut off from the rest of the world, both by choice and by circumstance. Archive 2010-07-01
  • Key elements of such a fusion include a sweeping overhaul of personal and corporate taxes, a light-handed approach to regulating companies that invest heavily in innovation, stronger constraints on Medicare and Medicaid spending, new investments in technical education to supply workers for advanced manufacturing, and the transformation of our archaic K-12 school system by choice and digital learning. Will Marshall: Obama Needs New Growth Story
  • Slaves work by compulsion, not by choice.
  • When mom is single by choice or circumstance or raising children in a two-mom family (what I call maverick moms), society's veneration of the so-called "traditional family" only adds to the holiday burden. Peggy Drexler: Mom, the Holidays Are a Time to Chill
  • I wouldn't have come to this bar by choice!
  • I am 35 and child-free by choice and it is amazing the amount of guilt trips I get.
  • He said they do not buy mitumba by choice, but because that is what they could afford.
  • Whether you are frugal by choice or by necessity, here are some tips for saving money when money is very tight.
  • Kahlan speculated that their irreverence was their way of reminding Richard that he had freed them and that they served only by choice. Soul of the Fire
  • I did this by choice
  • "It's not by choice, " he muttered, and crushed his empty plastic cup in his hands.
  • For the silver-haired generation, rising employment is not entirely by choice.
  • One proof of Shakespeare's sturdy endurability is that, in these days when the curriculum has been liberated, teachers and critics and students turn to him by choice. Shakespeare
  • An athlete who transfers and sits out a year as required by NCAA rules does so by choice.
  • The increase in out-of-wedlock birthrates is more dramatic: In 2005, 59 percent of all first-born French children were born to unwed parents, most by choice, not chance. Sound Politics: Turning A Blind Eye To Fatherless Black Babies
  • Yet here I sit, totally flummoxed by choice. Times, Sunday Times
  • As with anyone who appears on television by choice, it would be churlish not to own up to at least a soupçon of vanity.
  • This does not mean that the pace bowler has spent the winter at home by choice. Times, Sunday Times
  • About a meter tall if it stood erect, it must use its short, bowed legs arboreally by choice, for it ran on all fours and either foot terminated in three well-developed grasping digits. The Rebel Worlds
  • Yet here I sit, totally flummoxed by choice. Times, Sunday Times
  • He was separated from society not by choice and intellect, but by some involuntary spasm of fate that had left him bitter and reduced to beggary.
  • Jaric had brailed the mainsail neatly to the yardarm, but jib and spanker lay heaped in the bow, a negligence he never would have tolerated by choice. Shadowfane
  • I wouldn't go there by choice.
  • Nobody starved, nobody even went hungry for a day, unless by choice in the fasting month of Ramadan. KARA KUSH
  • All these measures, enforced by law or adopted by choice, reduce the risk of serious injury from crash impact.
  • At this moment there arrived at the same patch of greensward a pedestrian some years older than Percival St. John, -- a tall, muscular, raw-boned, dust-covered, travel-stained pedestrian; one of your pedestrians in good earnest, -- no amateur in neat gambroon manufactured by Inkson, who leaves his carriage behind him and walks on with his fishing-rod by choice, but Lucretia — Volume 04
  • How then, I ask you, are childless marriages any less of a nonfulfillment (whether or not by choice) of this most primary function of the "blessed partnership" that is "the cornerstone of all things American"? A Simple Challenge
  • In the first, a female paradise whydah mates with a male indigobird (whether by choice or coercion), then lays an egg in a nest of her usual host, Melba Finch.
  • Andrew Schoultz throws this metaphor hard and down the middle with his assaultive explosions, tornados -- anything that intrudes transcendent energy into a world that by choice would remain placid. ArtScene: Whatever It Looks Like Is Never Quite What You Think
  • A soldier by choice, not accident, he saw his soldiering imperilled, his name as an officer, and even as a gentleman, aspersed, and no way of hitting back at those who had aspersed it. Maid in Waiting
  • To eat alone by choice, shunning friends at mealtimes, would be another loss.
  • And then there's the double irony, since the song itself is actually produced by choice and artistic freedom: ultimately, it is a product of flexibility, though it is inflexible itself.

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