partial to
Example Sentences
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Thucydides was partial to naturalistic explanation and, no stranger to eclipses himself, might well have offered Pericles’ nervous helmsman a cloak.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026
He smoked a pipe and was partial to poetry and gardening.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 28, 2026
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
Powder blue, maybe, although that would be risky with the soot flying and all, but Joe is partial to blue.
From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison
