How to Use judicious in a Sentence

judicious

adjective
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  • The menu might be a judicious place to say out-with-the-old-in-with-the-new.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 8 Aug. 2019
  • The best way to gauge that is through judicious use of metrics.
    — Rajeev Sharma, Forbes, 7 July 2022
  • With prices having lost a bit of froth, now might be a good time to place a judicious bid.
    — Lucy Alexander, Robb Report, 16 July 2023
  • With judicious pruning, it can be kept to about five feet tall.
    — Marty Ross, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 Aug. 2022
  • The show’s voice is cool, judicious and wry, with a restrained and lightly risqué sense of humor.
    — Steven Litt, cleveland.com, 14 July 2019
  • Has your work forced you to be more judicious about your online presence?
    — Madison Malone Kircher, Vulture, 3 Mar. 2021
  • A bit of judicious editing might have tightened the pacing as well.
    — Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times, 25 Aug. 2023
  • Briny local oysters shine brighter with a judicious splash of yuzu mignonette.
    — The Bon Appétit Staff & Contributors, Bon Appétit, 8 Sep. 2022
  • Janeway said that the clinic is very judicious about referring cases to the process.
    — Kate Morrissey, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Feb. 2022
  • That means Martin had to be extra judicious this time around.
    — cleveland, 4 Apr. 2021
  • This is a pot of soup made with lentils, water, a little tomato sauce, a judicious sprinkle of spices.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 2 Nov. 2021
  • With as many as three guitars snarling at once, Wilco made judicious use of solos and accents.
    — Keith Spera, NOLA.com, 30 Oct. 2020
  • This recipe makes judicious use of cinnamon and a slug of good whiskey for some how-did-you-make-these yumminess.
    — Rebekah Lowin, Country Living, 5 Aug. 2022
  • The discovery let Distortion2 make judicious use of zips to beat Elden Ring in just over 12 minutes last week.
    — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 11 Apr. 2022
  • With any holiday tree, be judicious about turning off lights when no one is around and at night.
    — Discover Magazine, 9 Dec. 2023
  • Olivia Rodrigo thinks of herself as a judicious dropper of the F-bomb.
    — Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2023
  • Oats add fullness to the mouth feel, while judicious hopping prevents this Truck from bogging down in syrupy goo.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Feb. 2023
  • While Prescott did throw four interceptions over that span, the Cowboys can live with that, as Prescott has proven to be judicious with the ball over the course of his career.
    — John Owning, Dallas News, 2 July 2021
  • Wallach oversees the spirits and wine list, and, though modest in size, the selection is judicious and goes with this kind of food and does so at a fair price.
    — John Mariani, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2022
  • And there is nothing wrong with a judicious use of analysts who are bona fide experts on the topic at hand.
    — WSJ, 8 Nov. 2021
  • The Sox had been judicious in their deployment of Houck, yanking him after no more than 18 hitters in any of his three starts since the All-Star break.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 12 Aug. 2021
  • The only way to rightly balance them is with a steady, passionate eye and a judicious touch, and that’s where art itself comes in.
    — New York Times, 24 Sep. 2020
  • Depending on the topic, this should be the time when the key stakeholders (be judicious on who should get to decide) give approval for work to be done.
    — Amy Leschke-Kahle, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Fritzsche doesn’t add anything else to his wines besides a judicious amount of sulfur dioxide.
    — Michael Alberty | For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 12 Apr. 2022
  • Salary cap With about $35 million in available cap room this year, Atlanta can be a judicious buyer.
    — Nate Davis, USA TODAY, 9 Jan. 2024
  • The government has also broached a judicious reform of labour laws.
    — The Economist, 5 Dec. 2019
  • Since then, Luttig has, in a scholarly, judicious way, continued to sound the alarm.
    — Jane Mayer, The New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2022
  • Even the wisest, most judicious women can become dimwits in their love affairs.
    — Cat Zhang, Washington Post, 1 Sep. 2023
  • The company has made some judicious cuts and tweaks to Gower’s prologues to each of the five acts, and Steinfeld is particularly good at speaking his deeply clunky verse with clarity and good cheer.
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 26 Feb. 2024
  • Other critics have offered more judicious explanations of the war’s origins.
    — Hal Brands, Foreign Affairs, 28 Feb. 2023

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