How to Use favored in a Sentence

favored

adjective

• The team is heavily favored to win the championship.
• She enjoys a favored position in the company.
• The most favored nations approach isn’t the way to do it.
  — Ted Okon, STAT, 11 Dec. 2020
• The surf will be in the 2-foot to 3-foot range at favored spots on Monday and Tuesday.
  — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Aug. 2019
• No one will be able to pump the movers and shakers at a favored haunt, the Triple George Grill, quite the way the old pro did it.
  — James Rainey and Brittny Mejia, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Sep. 2022
• This is the favored conclusion of some of the authors of the paper.
  — Jeff Berardelli, CBS News, 8 July 2021
• Of course, a win for the favored Jayhawks Saturday would cut the lead to two games.
  — Jon Hale, The Courier-Journal, 28 Jan. 2022
• Many more workers and queens ended up in the favored soil arm.
  — Jennifer Frazer, Scientific American, 21 Nov. 2020
• Few foods are more favored among men than pizza and ice cream.
  — Heath Owens, Men's Health, 1 Nov. 2022
• The answer is not to cheat and bend the district lines to produce a favored outcome.
  — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 27 Feb. 2024
• Meanwhile, lagers—by far the favored type of beer in the non-craft world—are mainly turned out by megabrewers.
  — Matt Allyn, Popular Mechanics, 14 Sep. 2019
• Species of oak seem a favored target, but the cicada is not picky.
  — Washington Post, 7 July 2021
• You are blessed and highly favored, and August will remind you of this!
  — Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 Dec. 2023
• China bulls want to believe that the worst is over or that their favored tech stock has its own rosy story to tell.
  — Tim Culpan | Bloomberg, Washington Post, 28 Mar. 2019
• Eve races have established themselves as a favored prelude to the feast to come.
  — Martin Fritz Huber, Outside Online, 23 Dec. 2021
• As a two-seed, Alabama is the favored team in this matchup, but those numbers on the bracket don’t mean much at this stage in the Big Dance.
  — Joseph Goodman | [e-mail], al, 27 Mar. 2021
• Both sides insist a deal is still their favored outcome.
  — Ian Wishart, Bloomberg.com, 26 May 2020
• But even those flights have been reduced, making the adult bears' favored food supply shaky.
  — Dennis Romero, NBC News, 16 May 2020
• The Jewish members were the likeliest to take the lead on a favored issue in Congress.
  — Ron Kampeas, sun-sentinel.com, 27 Apr. 2021
• Drive-by shootings are a favored method of killing in Durban, a port city of 3.7 million people.
  — Sam Mkokeli, Bloomberg.com, 1 Mar. 2018
• Tesla has long been a favored target of investors who aim to profit from declines in the price of stocks.
  — New York Times, 5 Mar. 2021
• The favored fish on Fridays is catfish, served with hush puppies.
  — Mary Bergin, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 10 May 2018
• In Trump's favored narrative of how elections are won and lost, the candidate who holds the most events with the biggest crowds wins.
  — NBC news, 20 Oct. 2020
• In Trump’s favored narrative of how elections are won and lost, the candidate who holds the most events with the biggest crowds wins.
  — NBC News, 20 Oct. 2020
• Rockford coach Brad Wilson likes his team’s chances against the favored Lakers, compared to last year.
  — Wright Wilson, Detroit Free Press, 17 Mar. 2023
• Utah is most likely in the CFP if the favored teams win their conference championship games.
  — Joseph Goodman | [e-mail], al, 5 Dec. 2019
• But this Tuesday, one of Staley’s favored strategies — the face-to-face meeting — will at last be available once more.
  — Alan Blinder, New York Times, 30 May 2021
• In short, the Lost and Found booth at theaters will become a favored destination.
  — Marie Claire, 28 Jan. 2010
• One reason oak is a favored wood for growing shiitakes is that its bark persists for a long time, which helps reduce the invasion of other fungi.
  — Rita Pelczar, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 July 2024
• Nectar is offering up to 40 percent off its mattresses, and our favored mattress is on sale.
  — Nena Farrell, WIRED, 28 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 3 Dec 2024