FAVORED in a Sentence

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206 example sentences for FAVORED, such as:
1. No one favored dumbing down the magazine.
2. You was favored, and he was bullied and beat.
3. Such views will not have a favorable reception.
4. The response has been overwhelmingly favorable.
5. She played for very high stakes, and fortune favored her.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of FAVORED
favored
 a.  preferred above all others and treated with partiality
Classic Sentence: (173 in 12 pages)
1  Although they considered themselves Scarlett's favored suitors, they had never before gained tokens of this favor so easily.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
2  She teased him and favored him and asked him questions and answered them herself, so that he appeared very clever without having to say a word.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
3  "Ashley, you have not favored us with your opinion," said Jim Tarleton, turning from the group of shouting men, and with an apology Ashley excused himself and rose.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
4  Scarlett was inclined to be irritated with the child and favored a spanking.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LII
5  It was in the matter of the war that he most favored and thrilled them.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
6  She played for very high stakes, and fortune favored her.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXV
7  Then they resumed their route, and, favored by the darkness, pushed silently and vigorously toward the western shore.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 20
8  Hound never ran on a more beautiful scent," responded the scout, dashing forward, at once, on the indicated route; "we are favored, greatly favored, and can follow with high noses.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 21
9  Uncas, however, looking in his face with the fondness and veneration of a favored child, presumed on his own high and acknowledged rank, to reply.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 30
10  I assured him of my keeping the secret, and begged to be favored with further particulars.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXX
11  No doubt I should have been miserable whomsoever she had favored; but a worthier object would have caused me a different kind and degree of distress.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXXVIII
12  My appearance, with my arm bandaged and my coat loose over my shoulders, favored my object.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter LI
13  You was favored, and he was bullied and beat.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter LIII
14  Its light favored Blucher's ferocious pursuit, betrayed the traces of the fugitives, delivered up that disastrous mass to the eager Prussian cavalry, and aided the massacre.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIX—THE BATTLE-FIELD AT NIGHT
15  In spite of this favored Lancer, the label: Prude, under which we have classed her, suited her to absolute perfection.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VIII—TWO DO NOT MAKE A PAIR
Example Sentence: (33 in 3 pages)
1  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.
2  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.
3  Myanmar is also known as Burma, a term favored by exiles and dissidents including Suu Kyi.
4  Rochester has been favored with the most lively and the most continuous? The eagerness of a listener quickens the tongue of a narrator.
5  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.
6  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.
7  Since he was color blind, he favored large, showy flowers.
8  No one favored dumbing down the magazine.
9  Such events occur only when the external conditions are favorable.
10  The greatest hindrance to recovery of this resource is the marginally favorable economic environment.
11  The response has been overwhelmingly favorable.
12  Such views will not have a favorable reception.
13  French authorities are looking for a favorable resolution to the case against move director Roman Polanski.
14  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.
15  With favorable weather conditions, it was an auspicious moment to set sail.