Sentence examples similar to favored locution from inspiring English sources
In all, McLean has lost more than a dozen friends to the mountains — "lost to the mountains" being a locution favored by alpinists, as though skiing or climbing were a sacrificial rite, instead of a voluntary act.
He favors muscular locutions ("the story grabbed the nation by the neck and held on") at the expense of subtler ones.
Kris Parker, who became a graffiti writer and rapper under the name KRS-One, drew the connection this way: "For the hip-hoppa" -- a locution he favors -- "the state was our father.
Among these, the last locution (v) requires explication both because it is the most peculiar and because it is Aristotle's favored technical term for essence.
Isaac favored Esau, and Rebekah favored Jacob.
The dialogue is made up largely of clichés, arranged in dazzling series of non sequiturs; misplaced fancy locutions (Vic favors "inasmuch"), brand names and precise and valueless descriptions of things like the placemat (a souvenir of Stratford-Upon-Avon) with which Melanie-Jane recalls once being hit.
He favors a slow pace and painfully quaint locutions.
But Locke is not using the locution "prefer X"; rather, he is using the locution "prefer X to Y".
For the duration (that wartime locution that gave me my first model of condescending to present time in favor of the better future), for the duration it was permissible to appear to enjoy their recreations, avoid conflict, gobble their food.
