Sentence examples for being favourite from inspiring English sources

Armitstead is normally so relaxed, but felt the expectation of being favourite after a fine season.

Despite not being favourite, Mad Max: Fury Road actor Hardy - currently Oscar-nominated for his supporting role in The Revenant - has previously been mentioned as the British actor's potential replacement.

If all the talk off the track before Lizzy Yarnold's first Olympic Games had been dominated by hushed gossip of secret Russian plans to stop her and the pressure of being favourite, she did not let it show.

That came after Davis, who had won three of the four World Cup races this season, stuttered to eighth in Wednesday's 1,000m despite being favourite to claim a record third consecutive Olympic title at the distance.

"So many people see being favourite as bad," he says.

But despite being favourite, the odds on him landing a fairytale final win are against him.

Some are favourite cage birds.

Muller is favourite.

Who is favourite for next summer's Ashes?

Sir Clive Woodward is favourite for performance director.

O'Sullivan, for me, is favourite.