be partial to

Example Sentences

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He's a Montana man who longs for his ranch, so it follows that he'd be partial to home-cooked meals prepared with natural-as-possible ingredients.

From Salon • Aug. 18, 2023

“I think he has, and I say that but I’m always going to be partial to our guys,” he said.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 1, 2021

I understand the "NY" was the O.G. and they went back to it in 2000, but I'll always be partial to the script.

From Golf Digest • Mar. 23, 2020

I’ve been in huge, gorgeous, awe-inspiring libraries all over the world, but I will forever be partial to this little branch library where I felt like I discovered the universe.

From New York Times • Oct. 11, 2018

Well might old Isaac be partial to that cloak, for it was made for him by a beloved daughter who had been removed from him and from her family at the age of twenty-three.

From The Shepherd's Calendar Volume I (of II) by Hogg, James