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How to use the word Judicious in a Sentence?

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I was very judicious yesterday, very judicious, and you’ll see the photo that I did take where Magic was kind enough, generous enough, to ask me for a photograph, and in my left hand’s a mask and I took a photo.

Gavin Newsom

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We have to be very judicious in how we schedule our appointments, and the important thing I want everyone to know is that we are in no way hoarding these vaccine doses.

Sarah Apatov

Found on CNN
3 years ago

What companies can't do is just assume that the employees will be as judicious about their security at home as their chief security officer has been in the office, the old way of just saying,' Once you're inside the building, you're safe'... that's out the window, that's not coming back.

Tom Patterson

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Judicious use of water can save India from future calamities.

Gajendra Singh Shekhawat

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

There is such a thing that Former President Jimmy Carter seek in judges of a judicious temperament... people who are able to discipline themselves, to be open to the evidence wherever it might lead. ... This was quite unusual, what we saw the other day.

Hillary Clinton

Found on CNN
5 years ago

They will hopefully be very, very judicious and careful. Because the world is watching. That can not be a slaughter. If it's a slaughter, the world is going to get very, very angry. And United States is going to get angry, too, i am watching that very closely.

President Donald J. Trump

Found on CNN
5 years ago

There are a lot of negative stereotypes associated with chiropractors, i’ve had chiropractor colleagues who have worked on me who are good and judicious. But, unfortunately, there are those who are cavalier.

Noel Lozares

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

Following a judicious review of the claim and facts of this case, my office was able to reach a settlement with the estate of Eric Garner that is in the best interests of all parties.

New York City

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It is fair to say that the United States and our coalition partners are being judicious about deciding which individuals to send into the program, clearly, that number is not enough.

White House

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

There is the grand truth about Nathaniel Hawthorne. He says NO! in thunder; but the Devil himself cannot make him say yes. For all men who say yes, lie; and all men who say no,why, they are in the happy condition of judicious, unincumbered travellers in Europe; they cross the frontiers into Eternity with nothing but a carpet-bag,that is to say, the Ego. Whereas those yes-gentry, they travel with heaps of baggage, and, damn them! they will never get through the Custom House.

Herman Melville

added by anonymous
10 years ago

One of the diseases of this age is the multitude of books. It is a thriftless and a thankless occupation, this writing of books: a man were better to sing in a cobbler?s shop, for his pay is a penny a patch; but a book-writer, if he get sometimes a few commendations from the judicious, he shall be sure to reap a thousand reproaches from the malicious.

Barnaby Rich

added by anonymous
12 years ago

To address a judicious remark to a thoughtless man is a mere threshing of chaff.

The Hitopadesa

added by anonymous
12 years ago

It is a kind of policy in these days to prefix a fantastical title to a book which is to be sold; for as larks come down to a day-net, many vain readers will tarry and stand gazing, like silly passengers, at an antic picture in a painter?s shop that will not look at a judicious piece.

Burton

added by anonymous
12 years ago

The advice of friends must be received with a judicious reserve; we must not give ourselves up to it and follow it blindly, whether right or wrong.

Pierre Charron

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Jenny replied to this with a bitterness which might have surprized a judicious person, who had observed the tranquillity with which she bore all the affronts to her chastity; but her patience was perhaps tired out, for this is a virtue which is very apt to be fatigued by exercise.

Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Man's most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe.

Euripides

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Originality is nothing by judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Most people hew the battlements of life from compromise, erecting their impregnable keeps from judicious submissions, fabricating their philosophical drawbridges from emotional retractions and scalding marauders in the boiling oil of sour grapes.

Zelda

added by anonymous
14 years ago

The advice of friends must be received with a judicious reserve we must not give ourselves up to it and follow it blindly, whether right or wrong.

Pierre Charron

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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