more select

Example Sentences

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She wouldn’t be drawn on specifics of programming, but expect a bigger emphasis on Scottish voices and, because of sustainability targets, “deep dives” into a more select group of international orchestras.

From New York Times • Jan. 12, 2023

Like many, she discovered it’s much easier to grow these more select plants by creating a controlled environment.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 9, 2021

The event here attracts a much more "select bunch" of no more than about 40 people - all with links to the Company of Marblers and Stonecutters of Purbeck.

From BBC • Feb. 24, 2020

There are a more select handful who have now become potentially good friends through various kinds of conversation—online and IRL—whom I’m not sure I am really capable of lusting after.

From Slate • Nov. 22, 2019

Let me also say that my condemnation is not directed against the elementary public schools so much as against that more select class of co-educational establishments for pupils of less juvenile years.

From The Twentieth Century American Being a Comparative Study of the Peoples of the Two Great Anglo-Saxon Nations by Robinson, Harry Perry