How to Use preferential in a Sentence

preferential

adjective

• That warmth will be the key to the film’s awards fortunes: This is the kind of agreeable contender that should play well on the preferential ballot.
  — Vulture, 27 Oct. 2023
• Once the city takes over, members will have preferential tee times.
  — Austen Erblat, sun-sentinel.com, 7 Oct. 2020
• In the era of the preferential ballot, Oscar’s Best Picture has only overlapped with the Globes’ picks around half the time.
  — Nate Jones, Vulture, 5 Mar. 2021
• But it is used for much more than just getting preferential loan rates.
  — Sherisse Pham, CNN, 25 Sep. 2020
• Her preferential treatment — a result of the burgeoning crush the foreman has on her — is the subject of gossip in the back.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 May 2022
• Now, thanks to the preferential ballot, the top prize is awarded on the basis of Most Likable — and there’s no question what the most likable movie in this race was.
  — Vulture, 13 Mar. 2023
• The preferential pickup area at Sky Harbor is not known yet.
  — Michael Salerno, The Arizona Republic, 8 June 2023
• The last thing Cardinal Zen wants is a deal that gives him preferential treatment.
  — William McGurn, WSJ, 19 Sep. 2022
• The preferential treatment has been granted to 35 people, some famous and some not, for months.
  — David Meyer, Fortune, 29 Mar. 2023
• The preferential rate for capital gains and dividends has been a central part of the tax code for decades, and for good reasons.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 8 June 2021
• Tickets for preferential parking and missing license plates were high on the list, as well.
  — Cari Spencer, Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2023
• This isn't the first time the Proud Boys have received preferential treatment from a police department.
  — Will Carless, USA TODAY, 6 Jan. 2023
• Myles Garrett preferential treatment and were focused only on getting him to the Hall of Fame.
  — Tom Withers, ajc, 6 Jan. 2023
• The idea will be to prevent the wealthy and well-connected from getting preferential access.
  — Peter Fimrite, SFChronicle.com, 10 Dec. 2020
• For best picture, the member is invited to list up to five films in preferential order.
  — Clayton Davis, Variety, 12 Mar. 2023
• If, on the other hand, people think that care is preferential, then those who are on the inside start to take pleasure from the suffering of those who are on the outside.
  — Timothy Snyder, The New York Review of Books, 3 Sep. 2020
• One of the main reasons is that society has set the standards of beauty, and those who conform to the ideal get preferential treatment.
  — Goldie Chan, Forbes, 5 May 2023
• The preferential treatment of capital gains is one of them.
  — Veronique De Rugy, Orange County Register, 18 July 2024
• And as soon as the data are clean, Mexican researchers will have free and preferential access to it for a period of two years.
  — Emiliano Rodríguez Mega, STAT, 12 Aug. 2022
• At the time, a Fox News spokeswoman said neither host had been aware that their tips were receiving preferential treatment.
  — Ashley Parker and Josh Dawsey, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Jan. 2022
• The bill suspending Russia’s preferential trade status passed by a vote of 420-3.
  — Kevin Freking, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Apr. 2022
• This isn’t the first time United Airlines has been accused of preferential treatment on team charters.
  — Melissa Noel, Essence, 2 Nov. 2023
• The preferential ballot is many things to Oscar viewers.
  — Ben Zauzmer, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Mar. 2022
• Gotto says: Instead of the growth of that money being taxable at this preferential or preferred rate, there just is no tax bill.
  — Ellevate, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2021
• That's due to four decades of tax cuts for the rich, as well as preferential treatment for capital gains, such as the profits made from sales of stocks and bonds, which are taxed at a lower rate than income.
  — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 29 Mar. 2022
• At the time of the donation last year, City Councilman Andy Thomson said that once the city takes over, country club members will have preferential tee times.
  — Austen Erblat, sun-sentinel.com, 8 Oct. 2021
• Following that email, Huang says he was told that there was no preferential treatment for Alameda.
  — Elizabeth Lopatto, The Verge, 6 Oct. 2023
• The tricky part is that the Oscars use a preferential ballot, which asks voters to rank the 10 nominees and tends to produce a winner that consistently shows up in the No. 1 and No. 2 slots.
  — New York Times, 24 Mar. 2022
• The truth, of course, is that he was given preferential treatment because of politics.
  — The Editors, National Review, 2 Dec. 2024
• In 1999, when Hugo Chávez rose to power in Venezuela, his government took care of providing fuel to Cuba at preferential prices, and the blackouts dissipated.
  — Whitney Eulich, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 1 Jan 2025