FAVORABLE in a Sentence

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206 example sentences for FAVORABLE, such as:
1. That impression had been favorable.
2. No one favored dumbing down the magazine.
3. Our expedition made a favorable beginning.
4. The response has been overwhelmingly favorable.
5. Such views will not have a favorable reception.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of FAVORABLE
favorable
 a.  inclined to help or support; not antagonistic or hostile
 a.  (of winds or weather) tending to promote or facilitate
Classic Sentence: (173 in 12 pages)
1  Villefort's first impression was favorable; but he had been so often warned to mistrust first impulses, that he applied the maxim to the impression, forgetting the difference between the two words.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7. The Examination.
2  Villefort retained his place, but his marriage was put off until a more favorable opportunity.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13. The Hundred Days.
3  Finally ten months and a half had gone by and no favorable change had taken place, and Dantes began to fancy the inspector's visit but a dream, an illusion of the brain.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14. The Two Prisoners.
4  This would have been a favorable occasion to secure his dinner; but Dantes feared lest the report of his gun should attract attention.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24. The Secret Cave.
5  Our expedition made a favorable beginning.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 44. The Vendetta.
6  Franz is not expected to return home for a year to come, I am told; in that time many favorable and unforeseen chances may befriend us.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 51. Pyramus and Thisbe.
7  Danglars was balancing his monthly accounts, and it was perhaps not the most favorable moment for finding him in his best humor.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 78. We hear From Yanina.
8  These words made a favorable impression on behalf of the accused.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 86. The Trial.
9  I like a favorable reception; it expands the countenance, and those around me do not then appear so ugly.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 95. Father and Daughter.
10  "Here I am, your excellency," said Peppino, with an eagerness which Danglars thought favorable to him.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 116. The Pardon.
11  My opinion of those accessories was not favorable.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VIII
12  But he was often talked at, while they were in progress, by reason of Mrs. Joe's perceiving that he was not favorable to my being taken from the forge.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XII
13  I kept an eye on Orlick after that night, and, whenever circumstances were favorable to his dancing at Biddy, got before him to obscure that demonstration.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XVII
14  That impression had been favorable.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 12
15  He went towards the pavilions at the most favorable moment for escaping attention.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 24
Example Sentence: (33 in 3 pages)
1  Such events occur only when the external conditions are favorable.
2  The greatest hindrance to recovery of this resource is the marginally favorable economic environment.
3  The response has been overwhelmingly favorable.
4  Such views will not have a favorable reception.
5  French authorities are looking for a favorable resolution to the case against move director Roman Polanski.
6  Democrats that lost close contests in marginal districts may be willing to seek rematches in 2012 because the demography of their district may be more favorable than now.
7  With favorable weather conditions, it was an auspicious moment to set sail.
8  The American, who won his fourth gold medal here in Athens Thursday in the 200-meter individual medley, is the favored swimmer tonight in the 100-meter butterfly.
9  Though some Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower favored the establishment of a theocracy in New England, many of their fellow voyagers preferred a nonreligious form of government.
10  Myanmar is also known as Burma, a term favored by exiles and dissidents including Suu Kyi.
11  Rochester has been favored with the most lively and the most continuous? The eagerness of a listener quickens the tongue of a narrator.
12  The American president still needs to give the project — vehemently opposed by his core constituency but favored by the Republican majority in Congress — a clear thumbs-up or thumbs-down on his own.
13  After a bruising, five-month selection process, the list of contenders was cut to six serious candidates, with the chief executive job nearly going to Ford Motor Co CEO Alan Mulally, an outsider favored by investors lobbying for radical change.
14  Since he was color blind, he favored large, showy flowers.
15  No one favored dumbing down the magazine.