CHOOSE in a Sentence

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For CHOOSE, below is one of 283 sentences:
Provided with plenty of money and the passport of an old name, I could choose my own society: no circles were closed against me.

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 Meanings and Examples of CHOOSE
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choose
 v.  pick out, select from a number of alternatives
Classic Sentence: (179 in 12 pages)
1  I never saw anyone faint, and I don't choose to make myself all black and blue, tumbling flat as you do.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER ONE
2  "We don't cheat in America, but you can, if you choose," said Jo angrily.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWELVE
3  Why, you pile up your hands, choose a number, and draw out in turn, and the person who draws at the number has to answer truly any question put by the rest.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWELVE
4  "I've made such quantities it would be hard to choose which I'd have," said Laurie, lying flat and throwing cones at the squirrel who had betrayed him.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THIRTEEN
5  After I'd seen as much of the world as I want to, I'd like to settle in Germany and have just as much music as I choose.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THIRTEEN
6  I should choose this if I might, replied Amy, looking with great admiration at a string of gold and ebony beads from which hung a heavy cross of the same.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER NINETEEN
7  She felt excited and strange, and not knowing what else to do, followed a capricious impulse, and, withdrawing her hands, said petulantly, "I don't choose."
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
8  Love Jo all your days, if you choose, but don't let it spoil you, for it's wicked to throw away so many good gifts because you can't have the one you want.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE
9  If you choose to take offence at this, leave the house and feast elsewhere at one another's houses at your own cost turn and turn about.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK II
10  When Menelaus saw this he doubted whether to let him choose his own time for speaking, or to ask him at once and find what it was all about.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK IV
11  No one shall force me one way or the other, not even though I choose to make the stranger a present of the bow outright, and let him take it away with him.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK XXI
12  Missis intends you to leave Gateshead in a day or two, and you shall choose what toys you like to take with you.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
13  Why my hand shook, and why I involuntarily spilt half the contents of my cup into my saucer, I did not choose to consider.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
14  Mr. Rochester obliged me to go to a certain silk warehouse: there I was ordered to choose half-a-dozen dresses.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
15  Provided with plenty of money and the passport of an old name, I could choose my own society: no circles were closed against me.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
Example Sentence: (104 in 7 pages)
16  There's always a wide selection of delicious meals to choose from.
17  It is difficult to choose between two such nice houses.
18  Sooner or later,the time comes when we all must become responsible adults,and learn to give up what we want,so we can choose to do what is right.
19  You can choose your friends but you can't choose your family.
20  It's not us to choose the opportunity, but it's opportunity that decides us.
21  When you have choices, choose the best.
22  To choose time is to save time.
23  Many journalists here choose to pigeon all but the most innocuous of stories.
24  You can choose either a fixed or floating interest rate for the loan.
25  God made relatives; Thank God we can choose our friends.
26  Always choose firm, but ripe fruit.
27  Since you left crushing the dream with, then I choose in perishing in addition.
28  What today will be like is up to me , I get to choose what kind of day I will have.
29  Clearly know love is a hurtful things, but we still relentlessness to choose love.
30  The ancient way to settle a quarrel was to choose a leader from each side and let them fight it out.