Word Finder - chosen

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To pick; to make the choice of; to select.

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I chose a nice ripe apple from the fruit bowl.

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To elect.

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He was chosen as president in 1990.

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To decide to act in a certain way.

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I chose to walk to work today.

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To wish; to desire; to prefer.

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Picked; selected

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Elected

Damian couldn't have chosen a better guard.

Right now he was wondering if he had chosen the right occupation.

And have you chosen to?

She'd chosen a subject he couldn't argue about.

They say he went mad when the woman he'd chosen as his mate chose Kris instead.

He couldn't have chosen a more appropriate song.

I have chosen this paper because I want the spray of violets in the corner to tell you of my grateful love.

The room smelled familiar, and he realized he'd chosen her room.

She'd chosen a side deal with Darkyn and betrayed him.

I thought I was marrying a man who had chosen a lifestyle compatible with mine.

She had chosen soft dinner music.

The poor kid didn't even have a real birthday, only the arbitrarily chosen date of January 1st.

For the bundle which he had chosen had contained the food for the whole party.

Considering the information Katie had just disclosed, it wasn't surprising that he wanted to be in control - or that he had chosen a wife who asked few questions.

Jackson had chosen a restaurant with a bar area that had dancing.

A paternal administration, chosen from among yourselves, will form your municipality or city government.

A chief lord was chosen every year.

And why had he chosen her?

Other city officers are chosen by the council, and city employees are selected by a civil service commission of three members, appointed by the council.

On the 19th of December 1187 he was chosen at Pisa to succeed Gregory VIII.

The laborer's day ends with the going down of the sun, and he is then free to devote himself to his chosen pursuit, independent of his labor; but his employer, who speculates from month to month, has no respite from one end of the year to the other.

Have you chosen a post in which you might be of service to your neighbor?

One of the visitors, usually spoken of as "a man of great merit," having described how he had that day seen Kutuzov, the newly chosen chief of the Petersburg militia, presiding over the enrollment of recruits at the Treasury, cautiously ventured to suggest that Kutuzov would be the man to satisfy all requirements.

Bennigsen, who had chosen the position, warmly displayed his Russian patriotism (Kutuzov could not listen to this without wincing) by insisting that Moscow must be defended.

Four of the five vamps he'd chosen as bodyguards were exchanging looks of derision behind his back, and the vamp he tried to interrogate was openly ridiculing him.

If he hadn't chosen to become a vamp, he'd be a very useful Guardian.

Shivering, she stripped out of the Hell garb and flung it aside to put on some of the clothing she'd chosen.

Megan disappeared, and Katie changed into one of the outfits she'd chosen.

If he were allowed to pick his mate, he'd have chosen long ago and saved his planet.

If she'd chosen to leave, he wouldn't send her away without a night she'd remember for all time.

To hear him tell, Norfolk was God's chosen para­dise.

The eldest of any of the White Gods to mate, he'd been lauded with celebrations for days upon the announcement that he'd chosen a bride.

She would not tell me what you took from her in fulfilling her oath to you, but you did not choose anything a man like Sirian would have chosen.

I feel my body weakening - -it refuses to heal me this time, now that it's chosen its successor, as my father said it would!

No. The demon takes over their bodies until a new host is chosen.

When the three men rode through, she shut the gate and turned Princes toward the trail that Alex had chosen.

Why had he been chosen, and why had he accepted the job?

He had been chosen to meet Hamilton in controversy, with a view to convincing him of his errors, but the arguments of the Scottish proto-martyr, and above all the spectacle of his heroism at the stake, impressed Alesius so powerfully that he was entirely won over to the cause of the Reformers.

The same year he was chosen to design a monument for Warsaw, commemorating the rebirth of Poland.

One cannot avoid the suspicion that in this instance the Hebrew chronicler purposely phrased his account to convey the impression that Sennacherib's tragic end was but the slightly delayed culmination of the punishment inflicted for his attack upon the "chosen people."

A knowledge of the different epochs which have been chosen for the commencement of the year in different countries is indispensably necessary to the right interpretation of ancient chronicles, charters and other documents in which the dates often appear contradictory.

He was afflicted with asthma, and his retirement was relieved only by the society of a few chosen friends.

He represented Woodstock in the Short Parliament (April 1640), and was chosen by King Charles I.

He was again chosen speaker, his former experience and his pliability of character being his chief recommendations.

In the second protectorate parliament, summoned by Cromwell on the 17th of September 1656, Lenthall was again chosen member for Oxfordshire, but had some difficulty in obtaining admission, and was not re-elected speaker.

In April 1385 he was unanimously chosen king by the estates of the realm at Coimbra.

In that year, however, it was seized by the warrior, Paya Tak, as a convenient point from which to attack the Burmese army then in occupation of Siam, and upon his becoming king it was chosen as the capital of the country.

In the same year Piero Soderini was chosen gonfalonier for life, in accordance with certain changes in the constitution of the state, which were intended to bring Florence closer to the Venetian type of government.

A commander-in-chief had to be chosen for the new troops.

Representation in the legislature is according to districts, members of the lower house being chosen for two, and members of the upper house for four years.