- present participle of select.
selecting
Example Sentences
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Chiu is fond of the concierge service for booking restaurant reservations, selecting gifts and obtaining tickets to events.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
It also reveals that early humans in Britain were carefully selecting rare materials and using them to produce and maintain highly refined tools hundreds of thousands of years ago.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 27, 2026
Noise challenges, selecting a film franchise and building on a steep hill.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
We could rearrange the portfolios differently to tamp down the risk, selecting companies that are not projected to grow so quickly, but the current market environment justifies the risk — and will reward it.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 13, 2026
The next morning I took an early subway into the Wall Street district, selecting an address that carried me almost to the end of the island.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
