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Example sentences for "favored"

Lexicographically close words:
faveur; favor; favorable; favorably; favore; favorem; favorer; favorers; favori; favoring
  1. Although the undertaking was favored by the town of New Haven both then and during April, no attempt appears to have been made to carry it on.

  2. Louis favored the schemes of Denonville, which had been formed on a very extensive scale, and involved the mastery of the most fruitful part of the entire continent.

  3. He warmly favored the idea, and, relinquishing for the moment all thought of his trials with the priests, he gave his whole attention to the proposals of that bold and self-reliant explorer, the Sieur Robert de la Salle.

  4. The colony was in great disorder; the Iroquois roamed at their pleasure, destroyed when and whom they pleased, and vented their anger with all the cruelty and ferocity of their savage nature on such tribes as favored the French.

  5. And again, people so favored in this material experience of life may be forced by the very nature of existence to return into humble conditions to learn the real lessons of life here.

  6. After all, she might have something, too, like the favored woman who could look, then choose at will.

  7. It soon grew to be an event for less favored guests of the hotel to watch the couple mount, then gallop off.

  8. They favored either "correctional" or punitive methods, though modelled after the pattern of Western European rather than of primitive Russian anti-Semitism.

  9. A minority of the members of the Committee favored the limitation of the number of Jewish aldermen to one-half, but the majority staunchly defended the old norm, which was one-third.

  10. Instead, the Board favored the distribution of the Jewish volunteers over the whole army.

  11. Here I came to attend Sister Louisa's wedding, Uncle John being rather distant to me, supposing that I had favored the marriage.

  12. He held that "the highest effort of nature is to produce a rosso"; he was always in search of the favored tint either in pictures or in living beings.

  13. This gratified her deeply, and she describes the occasion at length, noting that she was "favored with the Tufts yell twice.

  14. She has been stabbed by traitorous hands, and by her most favored sons.

  15. The practice was probably favored by the sanction given by the civil law to the intervention of the bishop to compel the execution of a will where there were legacies in pios usus--to pious uses.

  16. The peculiar, cool manner of the young nobleman at their last meeting favored this presumption.

  17. To succeed in all undertakings equally well is not given to any one, not even to the most favored knight.

  18. Baron Barnewitz and his wife cut in, so that one of them could always be in one or the other room, and no party was favored at the expense of the other.

  19. On the contrary, you were the intimate friend, the favored guest of Lambert, and of his charming daughter, of whom I suspect he made a profitable investment.

  20. He has been so highly favored that I think he might permit a change of partners, as I am obliged to leave almost immediately, and shall not see you again for some time.

  21. He saw, heard, felt and cherished every thing that favored it.

  22. Soon after his return he favored the world with his impressions of Bermuda, the United States, and Canada.

  23. I do not mean to say that these fears were well founded, or that I myself partook of them; but such were the reports commonly circulated, and the impunity of crime certainly favored the impression.

  24. Kimball's blessing was, in substance, that he shall be made like unto those who have been blessed before him; and be favored with the same blessing.

  25. Lord hath favored them with this world's goods.

  26. Whereas information on general diet composition is known for most seabird species, we know little about the availability of favored seabird prey.

  27. If nesting places are in short supply, long life may be favored so that the bird can live long enough for a place to become vacant.

  28. I have noted small numbers of these gulls nesting, usually on turf near the tops of cliffs, in most colonies of favored prey species.

  29. If long life is a life history option, a low annual reproductive effort could be favored in several ways.

  30. Several ecological factors (not entirely independent) are believed to contribute to the evolution of the long life and low reproductive effort pattern favored by seabirds.

  31. The distant mountains hid their faces in a misty veil, and the tall cypress-trees of the cemetery swayed and sighed as Nature's special mourners for her favored child; and there they are to stand keeping watch over her.

  32. It was upon some favored individual of the class Southern Heiress that I designed to let fall the embroidered handkerchief of affectionate selection.

  33. Davis, joined him from above; having left Memphis only two days before, but favored in their voyage by the current, by competent pilots, and by a draught suited to the difficulties of river navigation.

  34. The province of the same name, however, and the other provinces generally, favored a looser form of confederation.

  35. At the same moment the east bank of the river was lit up, and on the opposite point huge bonfires kindled to illumine the scene--a wise precaution, the neglect of which by the enemy had much favored the fleet in the passage of the lower forts.

  36. When they are, it is proved that always from the time that Jefferson's provision failed to carry in 1784, as has been told above, the prevalent sentiment of the southern people overwhelmingly favored slavery.

  37. Opposition to the tariff, which in his judgment favored the manufacturing at the expense of the staple States, seems to have been the first thing that led Calhoun to take a pro-Southern stand in politics.

  38. They held the bond of family and home As firmly as more favored nations hold; Their homes were castles, where no man could come Without the potent ses-a-me of gold.

  39. A pestilence has struck this favored land-- Religion pleads in health; it now must take command.

  40. They fared as princes favored of the crown, Of all the best the Kingdom could afford.

  41. The most favored way of doing this is to have a dinner party or a reception.

  42. DRESS OF THE MAID OF HONOR Satin is the most favored material for the dress of the maid of honor.

  43. Plain script is favored for the engraving of the wedding cards; old English script, Roman capitals and block lettering are all effective.

  44. Had they been caught in a calm the heat would have been suffocating; but Providence favored them, and they sped along like a seagull toward their destination.

  45. The two continued their cautious conference, but the sail favored acoustics no longer, and the listener did not catch another syllable.

  46. Captain Strathmore and two of his officers had seen the same thing once or twice before, but they had been favored in this respect above others, and could hardly expect anything of the kind again.

  47. The longbow was a weapon favored by the English.

  48. He favored the Tartar-Christian alliance and was waiting only for the right moment to announce it.

  49. While the Kaiser has favored the world with his messages to the Czar and King George, he has wholly failed to give us any message that he sent in those critical days to the Austrian Emperor or the King of Italy.

  50. Here again the world is not favored with the text of the message, in which the Chancellor "begged Austria to reply," nor with that of the Austrian Foreign Minister's reply.

  51. Henry Adams had, as he thought, suffered too much from Russell to admit any plea in his favor; but he came to doubt whether this admission really favored him.

  52. Hay had been so long at the head of foreign affairs that at last the stream of events favored him.

  53. Only the most energetic, the most highly fitted, and the most favored have overcome the friction or the viscosity of inertia, and these were compelled to waste three-fourths of their energy in doing it.

  54. All this favored a young man who had come to make a name.

  55. He infused into his conversation the passionate energy which ever exists in their souls in relation to that climate, so highly favored by heaven.

  56. Nobunaga became Ziogoon, favored the Christians, and invested Hide-yosi with high military rank.

  57. The former advances mainly through the exercise of human reason; the latter through man's more favored circumstances, and the increased divine illumination of his spiritual nature.


  58. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "favored" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    accepted; acclaimed; admired; admitted; approved; auspicious; backed; better; blessed; dear; excepted; excused; exempt; favored; favoring; favorite; fortunate; golden; immune; inside; irresponsible; licensed; likely; lucky; permitted; popular; privileged; providential; received; released; select; spared; unaccountable; unanswerable