Sentence examples for favoured word from inspiring English sources

These are arranged by size, form and colour – "rhythm" was the favoured word – rather than period or artist.

"Lurking" was the favoured word to describe Cole's stance in the photograph, as the internet took delight in poking fun at his apparent struggle to fit in in Italy.

Some pieces are utterly expendable, however, including a one-page verdict of Zbigniew Herbert's Mr Cogito, and "Twenty-Four Word Notes", a stern look at some of Wallace's favoured words and how we should use them.

For a work of straitlaced commentary, Liddle's prose style is in a teasing state of dishevelment; his favoured words being F-ones: "fatuous" and "faux" adjectivally, and "fuck" in all its forms.

Later, he would learn to live "high on the hog", but the belief in graft and self-control has never vanished; "work" is one of the most favoured words in his book.

To end this blog, I'd like to quote my most favoured words on the subject, and to do so I turn to the immortal comedian Dave Allen; a man much chastised for his religious parodies yet who every week without fail ended his shows with the words "May your god go with you".

Darwin asserts that this is no mere analogy: 'The survival or preservation of certain favoured words in the struggle for existence is natural selection.' This claim that cultural entities of various sorts can undergo natural selection processes in their own right is not a necessary feature of a theory of cultural evolution.

"He was always the favoured son," Morphett laughs.

Some favoured actions over words.

But no, his favoured form of words describing near misses remains: "He gets the slightest touch on that, and it's a goal".

It's pure Obama – the unrufflable paterfamilias and empath-in-chief, with his beer summits and no-drama managerial style – right down to his favoured use of the word "folks".