How to Use curry favor in a Sentence

curry favor

idiomatic phrase

• Shaw said Moody joined the lawsuit to curry favor with Trump.
  — Anthony Man, sun-sentinel.com, 9 Dec. 2020
• Bryan Danielson used the Gotch-style piledriver while staring at Jerry Lynn to curry favor with him in case this went to the judges.
  — Alfred Konuwa, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2022
• Lawyers for Boatwright, Newsome and Williams painted Allen as a liar selling out his friends to curry favor with the state and perhaps avoid a life sentence.
  — Rafael Olmeda, Sun Sentinel, 13 Mar. 2023
• As a result, his government has sought to curry favor with other states in the Horn and to drive a wedge between Ethiopia and its neighbors.
  — Michael Woldemariam, Foreign Affairs, 10 Aug. 2020
• The prices — which are high for a novice artist — have raised questions in Washington about whether the works might attract buyers seeking to curry favor with the Biden White House.
  — New York Times, 13 Aug. 2021
• As the state’s largest utility, FPL would have good reason to want to curry favor with any future governor.
  — al, 7 Sep. 2022
• Several field hands had been playing checkers on the porch of the Bryants’ store that evening; one of them apparently told Mr. Bryant in an attempt to curry favor.
  — Margalit Fox, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2023
• Even the most secular football fan has, at some point, tried to quietly curry favor with a higher power on fourth and 1.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 2 Aug. 2022
• But amid the debris remained signs of a concerted attempt to curry favor with locals.
  — Michael E. Miller and Samantha Schmidt, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Nov. 2022
• Brewer has since admitted that these were both lies meant to curry favor with law enforcement.
  — Jordan Freiman, CBS News, 28 June 2023
• Brewer has since admitted that these were both lies meant to curry favor with law enforcement.
  — Jordan Freiman, CBS News, 28 June 2023
• Lia, on trial for extortion, attempts to curry favor with the jury.
  — Rodney Ho, ajc, 18 Apr. 2022
• The memo also warned against taking gifts from those seeking to curry favor with the incoming governor.
  — Isaac Arnsdorf and Josh Dawsey, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Sep. 2023
• His family alleges the arrest was made to curry favor with Beijing.
  — Christian Shepherd, Washington Post, 10 Dec. 2023
• The senator’s office rejected the notion he’s changed course to curry favor with GOP and independent voters ahead of the midterms.
  — Eric Cortellessa, Time, 13 Apr. 2022
• Harry said he was directed by palace staff to drop his litigation because his father wanted to curry favor with the press.
  — Brian Melley, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 May 2023
• The California Republican has not been able to curry favor with hard-right members of his party.
  — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 4 Jan. 2023
• This involved a labyrinthine plot to curry favor with the Chinese government in hopes that Beijing would assist Low in resolving his global legal woes.
  — Paul Duggan, Washington Post, 31 Mar. 2023
• At least one Twitter manager, perhaps seeking to curry favor with the boss, retweeted an image of her own office sleeping bag.
  — Will Oremus, Washington Post, 5 Sep. 2023
• Biden has offered prints and paintings for sale, some listed for hundreds of thousands of dollars, raising questions about whether buying his art could be seen as a way to curry favor with his father.
  — Justin Sink, Bloomberg.com, 17 Jan. 2023
• Last month, Cruz said a map of the world featured in the film contains an insidious detail intended to curry favor with the Chinese Communist Party.
  — Tommy Cummings, Dallas News, 10 Aug. 2023
• After spending three seasons feeling mistreated by Shiv and nearly winding up in prison due to the cruise scandal, Tom decides to expose Shiv’s plot to Logan to curry favor with the top dog.
  — Josh Wigler, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Mar. 2023
• Candidates are repeating various versions of Trump's lies about fraud in the 2020 election to curry favor with the former commander in chief.
  — Simone Pathe, CNN, 17 Dec. 2021
• European and Italian money revitalized the Libyan coast guard fleet, and Italy even tried to curry favor by brokering peace deals among feuding tribes.
  — Stefano Pitrelli, Washington Post, 19 Dec. 2022
• The guidelines were intended to shield the identities of buyers of Mr. Biden’s art to avoid the perception that their purchases could curry favor with the Biden administration.
  — Michael S. Schmidt, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2024
• Light, neutral hues with minimal pattern play continue to curry favor, which has helped drive interest to quartz.
  — Dan Diclerico, Good Housekeeping, 17 Nov. 2022
• White House lawyers established a set of ethics guidelines in 2021 that require the gallery to keep the identity of buyers secret–an effort to shield Biden from criticism that the buyers could be attempting to curry favor with the White House.
  — Sara Dorn, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2023
• Pompeo is rumored to be considering a 2024 presidential run and is clearly trying to curry favor among the main base of his former boss Donald Trump.
  — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 24 Jan. 2023
• Is the university implementing its vaccine mandate to curry favor with the NIH?
  — Nicholas Tampio, Baltimore Sun, 11 Mar. 2024
• However, Mélenchon’s plans to raise the minimum wage to 1,400 euros a month will surely curry favor among blue-collar voters.
  — Thomas Adamson, ajc, 11 June 2022

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024