Sample sentences for PREROGATIVE

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Definition

a right reserved exclusively for a particular person or group

It is the President's prerogative to grant pardons.

My prerogative right now is to just chill and let all the other overexposed blondes on the cover of Us Weekly (magazine) be your entertainment.
Britney Spears
It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.
Neil Gaiman
suffrage was the prerogative of white adult males
The great prerogative and rite of love,
Shakespeare, William -- All's Well that End's Well
She was never bored, and given the slightest chance she would exercise her royal prerogative: she would arrange, advise, caution, and warn.
Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird

prerogative = right or privilege

Unfortunately, until the machine age, culture was the exclusive prerogative of a society that lived by the labor of serfs or slaves.
Clement Greenberg -- Avant-garde and Kitsch
He put his boots on the stove—first-corner's prerogative— then back to Tsezar's bunk.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn -- One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Insulting me was her prerogative.
Octavia Butler -- Kindred
Call it a mother's prerogative.
Sarah Dessen -- Along for the Ride
No. That's your prerogative.
Simone Elkeles -- Perfect Chemistry
She's rubbing our noses in it, letting us know exactly who she is, making us watch her as she silently reads, flaunting her prerogative.
Margaret Atwood -- The Handmaid's Tale
The grandeur of houses is assured by the integrity of prerogatives.
Victor Hugo -- The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Under law the Quest for Ultimate Truth is quite clearly the inalienable prerogative of your working thinkers.
Douglas Adams -- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The emperor protects his prerogatives by protecting his own.
Mark Helprin -- A Soldier of the Great War
'The prerogative of a man is to command.'
Charles Dickens -- Oliver Twist
If you like to shift blame, it's your prerogative.
Nora Roberts -- Summer Pleasures
All others are hers by natural prerogative.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -- This Side of Paradise
Upon which impeachment of what to her was her most essential sex-prerogative, she made their lives unendurable.
Jack London -- The Call of the Wild
Under the Prerogative Office, the country had been glorious.
Charles Dickens -- David Copperfield

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