How to Use curry favor in a Sentence

curry favor

idiomatic phrase

• Those forces seek to curry favor with Trump’s inner circle.
  — Michael Carpenter, Foreign Affairs, 26 Nov. 2019
• Qatar cared less about which side in a dispute or war was a closer ally, and more about hosting the conversation to curry favor with both sides.
  — Allen Fromherz / Made By History, TIME, 30 Sep. 2024
• Taking on a mission that curries favor with one often means gaining the disapproval of another.
  — Gieson Cacho, The Mercury News, 5 Sep. 2024
• But a window of opportunity has opened to curry favor with the Iranian populace.
  — Carol E. B. Choksy, Foreign Affairs, 14 Oct. 2024
• Shaw said Moody joined the lawsuit to curry favor with Trump.
  — Anthony Man, sun-sentinel.com, 9 Dec. 2020
• So there are a lot of people who want to curry favor with him, stay close to him and avoid offending him.
  — Pat Leonard, New York Daily News, 14 Feb. 2024
• Bryan Danielson used the Gotch-style piledriver while staring at Jerry Lynn to curry favor with him in case this went to the judges.
  — Alfred Konuwa, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2022
• Tariffs have long been used to advance U.S. trade policies by both the right and left, as well as to curry favor with labor unions.
  — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 20 June 2024
• There are more extreme ways to curry favor with the officials.
  — Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 28 June 2024
• But both Trump and his daughter, Ivanka Trump, have appeared eager to try to curry favor with her in their own unique ways.
  — Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 22 July 2024
• Lawyers for Boatwright, Newsome and Williams painted Allen as a liar selling out his friends to curry favor with the state and perhaps avoid a life sentence.
  — Rafael Olmeda, Sun Sentinel, 13 Mar. 2023
• As a result, his government has sought to curry favor with other states in the Horn and to drive a wedge between Ethiopia and its neighbors.
  — Michael Woldemariam, Foreign Affairs, 10 Aug. 2020
• Murphy’s lawyers, trying to curry favor with the judge, came to Martinotti’s side.
  — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 21 Jan. 2024
• The prices — which are high for a novice artist — have raised questions in Washington about whether the works might attract buyers seeking to curry favor with the Biden White House.
  — New York Times, 13 Aug. 2021
• As the state’s largest utility, FPL would have good reason to want to curry favor with any future governor.
  — al, 7 Sep. 2022
• Several field hands had been playing checkers on the porch of the Bryants’ store that evening; one of them apparently told Mr. Bryant in an attempt to curry favor.
  — Margalit Fox, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2023
• Even the most secular football fan has, at some point, tried to quietly curry favor with a higher power on fourth and 1.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 2 Aug. 2022
• But amid the debris remained signs of a concerted attempt to curry favor with locals.
  — Michael E. Miller and Samantha Schmidt, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Nov. 2022
• The race to curry favor with the pro-crypto electorate coincides with the sector pouring tens of millions of dollars into key races.
  — Mackenzie Sigalos, CNBC, 15 Aug. 2024
• Brewer has since admitted that these were both lies meant to curry favor with law enforcement.
  — Jordan Freiman, CBS News, 28 June 2023
• Brewer has since admitted that these were both lies meant to curry favor with law enforcement.
  — Jordan Freiman, CBS News, 28 June 2023
• Lia, on trial for extortion, attempts to curry favor with the jury.
  — Rodney Ho, ajc, 18 Apr. 2022
• Ernst is urged by his wife to curry favor with Riefenstahl to put himself in a better position with the Nazi authorities.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 31 July 2024
• The memo also warned against taking gifts from those seeking to curry favor with the incoming governor.
  — Isaac Arnsdorf and Josh Dawsey, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Sep. 2023
• His family alleges the arrest was made to curry favor with Beijing.
  — Christian Shepherd, Washington Post, 10 Dec. 2023
• The senator’s office rejected the notion he’s changed course to curry favor with GOP and independent voters ahead of the midterms.
  — Eric Cortellessa, Time, 13 Apr. 2022
• Harry said he was directed by palace staff to drop his litigation because his father wanted to curry favor with the press.
  — Brian Melley, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 May 2023
• The California Republican has not been able to curry favor with hard-right members of his party.
  — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 4 Jan. 2023
• This involved a labyrinthine plot to curry favor with the Chinese government in hopes that Beijing would assist Low in resolving his global legal woes.
  — Paul Duggan, Washington Post, 31 Mar. 2023
• At least one Twitter manager, perhaps seeking to curry favor with the boss, retweeted an image of her own office sleeping bag.
  — Will Oremus, Washington Post, 5 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 3 Dec 2024