Sample Sentences for

objective

grouped by contextual meaning

(editor-reviewed)

What is your objective?

And what did Brother Malcolm say is our objective?  (source) Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give, 2017

"As she said, your primary objective, to unite the districts, has succeeded," Boggs reminds me.  (source) Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay, 2010

The pursuit of knowledge, he maintained, was a worthy objective in its own right and needed no external validation.  (source) Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild, 1996

It appeared that on the same night I had learned about one of writing's objectives, irony, I would also be introduced to one of its pitfalls: the Plot Hole.  (source) Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner, 2003

That wasn't the primary objective.  (source) Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park, 1993

All around me, my teammates were racing to their objectives.†  (source) Mark Owen, No Easy Day, 2012

Ender didn't like games where the rules could be anything and the objective was known to them alone.  (source) Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game, 1977

IF THESE ARE OUR OBJECTIVES—IF WE AGREE THAT THIS IS WHAT WE WANT—WHY ARE WE ESCALATING THE WAR?†  (source) John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany, 1989

Then a part of me understands, even as I begin to argue against it, that my humiliation was the cause of that pleasure. It was not an accident or side effect. It was the objective.  (source) Tara Westover, Educated, 2018

We can't get lost in the career advancements and grant objectives, the day-to-day grind, as if we have to do what we do.†  (source) Tommy Orange, There There, 2018

The group's main objective was to liberate Kashmir's Muslims from Indian rule, but they had recently also become active in Afghanistan.  (source) Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala, 2013

Two days later, about forty-five minutes after the first bombs struck military targets outside Baghdad, President Bush addressed the nation and outlined the objectives of what would be a military invasion of Iraq: ...to disarm Iraq, to free its people, and to defend the world from grave danger....The people of the United States and our friends and allies will not live at the mercy of an outlaw regime that threatens the peace with weapons of mass murder.†  (source) Eric Blehm, Fearless, 2012

There were lots of rumors, but no objective evidence.

They hired an outside consultant to get an objective perspective of the problem.

Complete objectivity is hard when considering political issues.

The bank insisted upon an objective appraisal of the house before they would give a loan.

Objectively, I can see the mutts and Cato's death are as gruesome as ever, but again, I feel it happens to people I have never met.  (source) Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games, 2008

He slapped her face with amazing objectivity and repeated the question.  (source) Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451, 1953

It has been in search of the absolute that the avant-garde has arrived at "abstract" or "nonobjective" art — and poetry, too.†  (source) Clement Greenberg, Avant-garde and Kitsch, 1939

What it is is warped with memory of what it was and that with what happened there to me, the whole bundle wracked until objectiveness is nigh impossible.†  (source) John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley, 1962

"This just isn't scary" "It objectively is," she said.  (source) John Green, Turtles All the Way Down, 2017

I'm telling you this, Dallas, so that you know up front I have no objectivity on this case.  (source) J. D. Robb, Glory in Death, 1995

The basic idea of science—that there was a new way to look at reality, that it was objective, that it did not depend on your beliefs or your nationality, that it was rational—that idea was fresh and exciting back then.  (source) Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park, 1993

How can you objectively judge your own values?  (source) David Henry Hwang, M. Butterfly, 1986

We are taught in this business to leave our emotions out of a story, to view things with pure and perfect objectivity, but that was impossible on this story.  (source) Rick Bragg, All Over but the Shoutin', 1997