partial to

Example Sentences

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I'm more partial to Per Sempre Sì, a throwback disco song from veteran Italian star Sal Da Vinci.

From BBC • May 8, 2026

Douglas doesn’t understand why his children are partial to their mother, his ex-wife, who was the source of so much instability and terror.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 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

But I suppose if you’re partial to swallowing horseflies whole, it’s a pretty good sign that smartness ain’t one of the things you been ’specially blessed with.

From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis