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lean toward
verb as in favor
Example Sentences
Unless there is “a clear national security or law enforcement need,” the bias would lean toward disclosure.
For all those reasons, I lean toward a skeptical and restrictionist view.
Crucially, independent voters now lean toward Graves by a 15-point margin.
Would we be more, or less, likely to lean toward trust and reconciliation?
Casey Mills, a spokesman for the Iowa GOP, says he expects the party “will lean toward inclusion” of everyone again this year.
The gossipy gables of the old houses lean toward each other like peaked eldritch faces in fluted red caps.
I would know if you still think of one whom you loved, if, in Gods presence, you can lean toward our distress?
He has learned to notice that the tops of the pine-trees generally lean toward the rising sun.
If he was seated when the vibrations began he would hold up his hand for silence, and lean toward the sound.
The others continued to echo Horace, or lean toward allegory, or see profit in poetry from its moral example.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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