He selects his ideas and words carefully, but dictates fluently.
He is deliberate and selects what he means to tell.
It haunts the sunniest spots and selects rocks or firm stones as a foundation for its nest.
August and selects a certain lavender-border for her dormitory.
The second caterpillar, promoted to captain, knows the duties of his rank off-hand: he selects and leads, or rather he hesitates and gropes.
The insect selects its stone-quarry in some well-trodden path, on some neighbouring road, at the driest, hardest spots.
Referring to your book, I find such expressions as "Man selects only for his own good; Nature only for that of the being which she tends.
The subaltern probably finds these individuals laboring in the fields, and without even the formality of a request, selects the best men from the group and orders them into the ranks.
If the conjurer is a man he chooses one of the kings as his representative; if a woman, sheselects one of the queens.
This is on the supposition that persons are consulting for themselves; otherwise it is the fortune-teller who selects the representative card.
And better still, if the empty term he selects is used in a contrary sense; the sonorous words justice, humanity, mean to him piles of human heads, the same as a text from the gospels means to a grand inquisitor the burning of heretics.
But by the simple fact of attention, consciousness selects individual phenomena, and gives them an importance they do not possess in the unceasing uniformity of universal movement.
It is attention which selects from the chaos of phenomena, and so groups what it selects as to illustrate the predominating thought in the mind of the beholder.
The degenerate subject, on the other hand, selects among the arrangements of civilization such as are either immaterial or distinctly suitable, in order to rebel against them.
He selects pygmies for his cabinet and for his aides in order that they may proffer him no advice, resent no contradiction or protest indignities to their offices.
Immediately an elderly woman from a neighbouring house selects a piece which weighs exactly two ounces, and for this she hands him cash to the value of about three halfpence.
The strolling doctor selects a suitable place where he can best display the various articles that he hopes will attract those who may be in need of his services.
He then selects with his chopsticks a bit of salted turnip and drops it into the very centre of the steaming rice.
After many uncomplimentary remarks about the pork, and declaring that it is of very poor quality and would be found tough in the eating, he selects a piece that seems to have caught his eye, and he requests the man to cut that off for him.
In most cases we must watch the animals undisturbed, and very rarely can we have an opportunity of determining whether one particular female selects her mate out of her various suitors.
The beast of prey prowls round the peaceful creature and selects its moment.
A good environment is that which selects the good, and the best environment is that which selects the best; discovers them, makes the utmost of them, and confers upon them the supreme privilege and duty of parenthood.
That is in the ordinary sense of the words, not in the more exact sense--as I think--in which a good environment would be defined as that which selects the good for parenthood.
Why the Bluebird selects cavities as nesting places, does not readily appear.
The male selects some dried limb of hard wood and there beats out his well-known signal which advertises far and near, "Wanted, a wife.
If one selects only the very black ones they will probably be toad tadpoles.
The large-mouthed, on the contrary, selects a muddy bottom grown over with reeds.
The male selects a spot near the banks of the stream or pond where the water is very shallow.
She, refusing to do so, selects a skull as her lover.
It looks around, then selects some young woman about ready to enter womanhood, one that is noted for her virtue and other good qualities, to become its mother.
This last is very difficult to do, for mamma whippoorwill always selects a dense, shady part of the woods for her motherly duties.
Before commencing operations with the diagram, he selects three or five of the cowries highest up in the heap, and places them in a line on the right-hand side.
The leader of the rush selects the new line if it has not been previously designated.
If it be impracticable for him to do either, the senior officer with the firing line, in each battalion, selects the time for opening fire.
He selects not, as you would predict, a dry and resinous log, but a decayed and crumbling one, seeming to give the preference to old oak-logs that are partly blended with the soil.
The cow bunting seems to have no conscience about the matter, and, so far as I have observed, invariable selects the nest of a bird smaller than itself.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "selects" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
