How to Use cherry-pick in a Sentence

cherry-pick

verb
  • Even the politicians who attended the rallies cherry-picked which parts to respond to.
    — Em Readman, refinery29.com, 7 May 2024
  • Her job: monitoring Western broadcasts to cherry-pick news that showed the West in a bad light to air on the network’s shows.
    — Constant Méheut, New York Times, 24 Mar. 2023
  • Our favorite way to play that growth isn’t by trying to cherry-pick which retailer will win at the online game.
    — Brett Owens, Forbes, 16 Oct. 2024
  • Players from both teams cherry-picked at the offensive end of the court instead of getting back on defense.
    — Bennett Durando, The Denver Post, 17 Feb. 2025
  • There, shoppers could cherry-pick from different eras to curate their looks.
    — Boutayna Chokrane, Vogue, 30 Oct. 2023
  • There are also specific savings on planned sailings, so peruse their site to cherry-pick the best deal and remember to read all the fine print.
    — Dan Koday, Travel + Leisure, 3 Dec. 2024
  • Many Ivy League students have learned to cherry-pick easy-grading professors.
    — Karin Klein, The Mercury News, 13 Nov. 2024
  • What to watch: The trend could widen health disparities as doctors flee to cash-pay businesses and cherry-pick patients.
    — Tina Reed, Axios, 7 Oct. 2024
  • Threads is a brand extension versus a totally new product, and the early joiners (like me) were easy to cherry-pick at launch.
    — Jennifer Jolly, USA TODAY, 11 July 2023
  • Programming isn’t only about cherry-picking the best film.
    — Zac Ntim, Deadline, 3 Nov. 2024
  • Boston even cherry-picked some strategy from the Warriors.
    — Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 18 June 2024
  • As the genre turns 50, its most rewarding songs wisely cherry-pick from the past while staying true to rap’s reputation as a harbinger of what’s next.
    — Pitchfork, 11 Dec. 2023
  • Democrats warn that Trump supporters would cherry-pick clips of the video to spin conspiracy theories.
    — Scott MacFarlane, CBS News, 20 Dec. 2023
  • Fox said Dominion had mischaracterized the record and cherry-picked quotes stripped of key context.
    — David Bauder, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Feb. 2023
  • The speed at which the Saudi league has been able to cherry-pick such familiar, if fading, names from Europe’s elite clubs has made the country’s ambition feel like an inevitability.
    — Ahmed Al Omran, New York Times, 13 July 2023
  • In response, Baldoni’s counsel has alleged that the text messages illustrative of the smear campaign in the Times article were cherry-picked and taken out of context.
    — Nicole Page, IndieWire, 6 Jan. 2025
  • His peers criticized him for cherry-picking data, and his comments drew backlash from healthcare providers who were overwhelmed by the strain on U.S. hospitals.
    — Claire Bugos, Verywell Health, 27 Nov. 2024
  • The San Sebastian film festival has cherry-picked the best of Cannes’ competition lineup for its Perlak section this year.
    — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Aug. 2024
  • Taxpayers deserve an independent and complete review — not cherry-picking topics and then putting a thumb on the scale.
    — Daniel Borenstein, The Mercury News, 29 Mar. 2024
  • Enck accused the plastics industry of cherry-picking research, too.
    — Emily Le Coz, USA TODAY, 1 May 2023
  • Prosecutors, however, said Trump’s defense had cherry-picked two of Chutkan’s statements out of context and misapplied the law to wrongly argue that the judge was biased against him.
    — Rachel Weiner, Washington Post, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Well, and speaking of which, some of your Republican colleagues have cherry-picked some of the images to frankly further some conspiracy theories.
    — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 26 Nov. 2023
  • In its second year under Hitchcock’s leadership, the festival seems to be settling into a role of cherry-picking highlights from the year and bringing them to audiences in L.A.
    — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2024
  • But potential 2027 election rivals like Ruffin are also cherry-picking elements of her rhetoric to make their own case to voters.
    — Ania Nussbaum, Bloomberg.com, 2 June 2023
  • Presidents sometimes bolster their claims of a mandate by cherry-picking polling results.
    — Jenny Jarvie, Los Angeles Times, 29 Nov. 2024
  • The Biden administration pushed back on the findings by Republicans, calling it a partisan effort that sought to cherry-pick facts ahead of an election.
    — Anne Flaherty, ABC News, 8 Sep. 2024
  • Ruth Holton-Hudson mischaracterizes the Exxon lawsuits, cherry-picks the stock data and blames the fossil fuel companies for climate change.
    — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 9 May 2024
  • Fox News, which denies any wrongdoing, has accused Dominion of cherry-picking emails to present a self-serving narrative about what the right-wing network did after the 2020 election.
    — Oliver Darcy, CNN, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Protasiewicz has said her opponents are cherry-picking cases in her record, and defense attorneys note some defendants are in jail for as long as two years awaiting trial or a plea deal.
    — Molly Beck, Journal Sentinel, 27 Mar. 2023
  • Plaintiff’s attempt to cherry-pick a few decade-old cases as examples proves that the company provides excellent care overall.
    — Jennifer Rodriguez, Kansas City Star, 29 Jan. 2025

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