partial to
Example Sentences
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He smoked a pipe and was partial to poetry and gardening.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 28, 2026
Newman was charmed; others, partial to the “fancy tricks with the paint” of Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, were not.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 26, 2025
An apparent similarity between two unrelated events, a parchment-paper test, makes us partial to seemingly endless, overconfident prophesies of disaster.
From MarketWatch • Oct. 20, 2025
From Jerry Maguire and King Richard to The Blind Side, the Oscars have always been partial to a sports biopic.
From BBC • Sep. 20, 2025
When I see him being partial to Margot, approving Margot’s every action, praising her, hugging her, I feel a gnawing ache inside, because I’m crazy about him.
From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank
