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US
/ˈtʃɔɪs/
]
[ UK /tʃˈɔɪs/ ]
[ UK /tʃˈɔɪs/ ]
NOUN
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the act of choosing or selecting
you can take your pick
your choice of colors was unfortunate -
the person or thing chosen or selected
he was my pick for mayor -
one of a number of things from which only one can be chosen
my only choice is to refuse
there is no other alternative
what option did I have?
ADJECTIVE
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appealing to refined taste
choice wine -
of superior grade
prime beef
prize carnations
quality paper
choice wines
select peaches
How To Use choice In A Sentence
- The battery-operated doll comes complete with walkie-talkie and a wardrobe choice of military fatigues or bolero jacket and gold trousers.
- ‘In the absence of those assurances, we will have no choice but to ballot for industrial action,’ he said.
- I only played three carefully considered notes with intuitive regard to choice of rhythm, tempo, dynamics - using a poignant interval, the minor sixth resolving to the perfect fifth.
- Though her color palette has brightened over the years and animal heads have shrunk a bit from cartoonish proportions of earlier years, her distinctive style soft paintings she calls "cutes" and her choice of subject NYT > Home Page
- Entrants must specify their choice of prize when entering. Times, Sunday Times
- It was the policy of the good old gentlemen to make his chileren feel that home was the happiest place in the world; and I value this delicious home---feeling as one of the choicest gifts a parent can bestow.
- Moreover, don't these choices facilitate a feminist reading of the text, deconstructing sentimentality to expose masculine failings and feminine rebellion?
- That's why I contend, with just a soupçon of exaggeration, that Britain's big choice will be made on May 29.
- The institute says that less than 1 per cent of households would willingly pay for the meters if they had a 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