As sociologists Walker and Bellamy have noted, "media audiences are seen as frequently selecting material that confirms their beliefs, values and attitudes, while rejecting media content that conflicts with these cognitions."

The government frequently selects a strategic foreign investor when privatizing a parastatal.

The young offender frequently selects properties in his own neighbourhood.

Odrade frequently selected a particular companion at mealtime visits.

A fine example is the Sedum telephium 'Autumn Joy' (hybridized in Germany), which they frequently select.

We frequently selected the trout we wanted, and rested the bait patiently and persistently on the end of his nose at a depth of eighty feet, but he would only shake it off with an annoyed manner, and shift his position.

Lewis frequently selects his evidence to make Babbitt and Zenith appear as bad as possible.

"Attorneys frequently select out-of-context material in order to enhance their positions in courts of law... some of these misperceptions and misrepresentations have become so widespread that I considered it judicious to formulate this statement," he wrote.

More recently, couples frequently select an engagement ring together.

He frequently selected bearded men from the newly arriving transports and asked them whether they believed in God.