Sample sentences for SUBJECTIVE

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Definition

influenced by personal belief, feelings, or preferences (rather than being based purely upon fact)

In grammar, subjective can refer to a noun or pronoun inflection that indicates the relationship between terms in a sentence. For example, in "She ran home," she is the subject of the verb ran and the sentence is in the subjective (aka nominative) case.

a subjective judgment

Existing evaluations are largely subjective. The union wants objective criteria, so our employees will know how to succeed and will not need to worry about bias.
I have come to the conclusion that my subjective account of my motivation is largely mythical on almost all occasions. I don't know why I do things.
J. B. S. Haldane
Marilla was not given to subjective analysis of her thoughts and feelings.
Montgomery, Lucy Maud -- Anne Of Green Gables
Many besides Angel have learnt that the magnitude of lives is not as to their external displacements, but as to their subjective experiences.
Hardy, Thomas -- Tess of the d'Urbervilles - A Pure Woman
Nature and literature are subjective phenomena; every evil and every good thing is a shadow which we cast.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo -- Essays, Second Series
Zillah's lintscapes are termed "subjective,"
Margaret Atwood -- Cat's Eye
Did he not realize how subjective Alice's visions were.'
Stephenie Meyer -- New Moon
One quality of such places as I am trying to define is that a very large part of them is personal and subjective.
John Steinbeck -- Travels with Charley
In truth, categorizing talents is a subjective, haphazard business; every talent is unique, never exactly the same thing twice.
Stephenie Meyer -- Breaking Dawn
Otherwise you're being subjective in a way that is not at all fair to the accused.
David Guterson -- Snow Falling on Cedars
The market for football players was rooted in subjective judgments and ancient prejudices.
Michael Lewis -- The Blind Side
But something was missing in my imaginative efforts; my flights of imagination were too subjective, too lacking in reference to social action.
Richard Wright -- Black Boy
Hegel said that 'truth is subjective/ thus rejecting the existence of any 'truth' above or beyond human reason.
Jostein Gaarder -- Sophie's World
Marilla was not given to subjective analysis of her thoughts and feelings.
Lucy Maud Montgomery -- Anne Of Green Gables
The time as we know it subjectively is often the chronology that stories and novels follow: it is the continuous thread of revelation.
Eudora Welty -- One Writer's Beginnings
Then I looked at Wolf Larsen, but there was nothing subjective about his state of consciousness.
Jack London -- Sea Wolf
Some seek their own subjective and unchanging dream of a woman in all women.
Milan Kundera -- The Unbearable Lightness of Being
All this irritation is purely subjective.
George Bernard Shaw -- Pygmalion
"Murderis a subjective term," Maggie hissed.
Stephenie Meyer -- The Host

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