Elective in a Sentence Definition of Elective a nonacademic course in school that is chosen by the student Examples of Elective in a sentence While scheduling her classes for the fall semester, Jamie could only pick one more elective and then she would have to take academic subjects. The only elective that appealed to the group of girls was chorus since they loved to sing. Karen did not worry too much about the grades in her last class since it was an elective and had very little homework. Excitement arose from the 8th graders knowing that they would soon be scheduling an elective plus their academic courses for next year. I had to choose one elective from the choices of art, music, French, and computers for my 4th period class.