The phrase 'is used selectively' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to imply that something is chosen carefully and intentionally, as opposed to randomly or indiscriminately. For example: "The budget allocation process is used selectively to ensure the most effective use of resources."
Hereafter, we will refer to this view, according to which teleology is used selectively for organisms and artifacts, as selective teleology.
Clearly, the term is used selectively and subjectively.
The shape of each slice is used selectively to harden a layer of light-sensitive liquid, usually with ultraviolet light, to form the required shape.
Repeal of the amendment — which is part of the tax code and would require action by Congress — has been sought primarily by conservative Christian leaders, who argue that it is used selectively to keep them for speaking out freely.
As Emma Brockes recently wrote in the Guardian, regardless of how well-researched true crime is, dramatic shortcuts are made: information provided by those involved is used selectively, or ignored, and an embellished account is broadcast that is in places unrecognisable to the families.
Although the contribution of future studies to management is in theory all but self-evident, the practice in organizations is that futures knowledge is hardly used, or at most, is used selectively and strategically ('politically'politically
By their nature, targeted exploits must be used selectively.
But uncertainty should be used selectively and with caution.
And environmental laws that have been used selectively -- or ignored -- will be enforced, he said.
"I feel that the rules are being used selectively to curb minority viewpoints," she said.
Because they are relatively few in number, the American commandos must be used selectively.
