How to Use cherry-pick in a Sentence

cherry-pick

verb
  • Yes, these stats are cherry-picked.
    — Mike Finger, San Antonio Express-News, 2 Mar. 2026
  • Many of his vetoes seemed to cherry-pick projects from longer lists.
    — Orlando Sentinel, The Orlando Sentinel, 1 July 2025
  • There, shoppers could cherry-pick from different eras to curate their looks.
    — Boutayna Chokrane, Vogue, 30 Oct. 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
  • Even the politicians who attended the rallies cherry-picked which parts to respond to.
    — Em Readman, refinery29.com, 7 May 2024
  • Mid-major colleges will never keep their teams together and the big schools will cherry-pick the best players.
    — Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 2025
  • Their style is to highlight 5% out of all the film’s reviews, cherry-picking the ones that that are negative.
    — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Bianco argued that crime data put out by the state has been cherry-picked by liberals to make law enforcement look bad.
    — Hailey Wang, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2026
  • Many Ivy League students have learned to cherry-pick easy-grading professors.
    — Karin Klein, The Mercury News, 13 Nov. 2024
  • Like any other young actor, her goal is to gain experience by saying yes to a number of projects, not to cherry-pick them.
    — Julie Hinds, Freep.com, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Her audience tends to consume her albums as complete sets as opposed to cherry-picking their favorites for their playlists.
    — Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 8 July 2025
  • 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
  • Presidents sometimes bolster their claims of a mandate by cherry-picking polling results.
    — Jenny Jarvie, Los Angeles Times, 29 Nov. 2024
  • Enck accused the plastics industry of cherry-picking research, too.
    — Emily Le Coz, USA TODAY, 1 May 2023
  • Fox said Dominion had mischaracterized the record and cherry-picked quotes stripped of key context.
    — David Bauder, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Feb. 2023
  • Some of the founders were indeed devout Christians and these folks cherry-pick Christian quotations from them.
    — Steven Greenhut, Oc Register, 5 Dec. 2025
  • The order cherry-picks lawless acts by persons alleged to be members of left-wing groups but never mentions the violence by right-wing groups.
    — Billal Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Soliman’s legal team filed statements from all three balking at how DHS had cherry-picked their research.
    — Hannah Allam, ProPublica, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Not only that, this group likes to fast-forward through programs and cherry-pick favorite clips, all while multitasking across multiple screens.
    — Jennifer Silverman, Rolling Stone, 7 Apr. 2026
  • Cha chaan tengs grew in popularity, cherry-picking elements from all three restaurants to create a new type of cuisine.
    — Sam Stone, Bon Appetit Magazine, 9 Apr. 2026
  • Now that Mozilla has revealed a dozen of them, the same critics will surely claim they too were cherry-picked and conceal less accurate results.
    — Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 7 May 2026
  • 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
  • Among the most consequential changes was a move to support private teams and private coaches, rather than just those who had been cherry-picked by the federation.
    — George Ramsay, CNN Money, 26 Aug. 2025
  • Simply put, the princess-nail manicure uses the hallmarks of all of these styles and combines them together, cherry-picking the best of what each has to offer.
    — Fiona Embleton, Glamour, 11 June 2025
  • Trump and allies have often cherry-picked, misled and gone well beyond the evidence in trying to attach high-profile violence to the left.
    — Cnn.com Wire Service, Mercury News, 21 Sep. 2025
  • Each fin features quotations cherry-picked from a century of glowing Phantom press reviews.
    — Howard Walker, Robb Report, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Huston unfortunately cherry-picks the best of his state without acknowledging the worst.
    — Chicago Tribune, 25 June 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • Apple can certainly afford to cherry-pick projects, choosing only to work with top directors and major stars on films that meet a certain criteria.
    — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 30 June 2025

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