How to Use favor in a Sentence

favor

1 of 2 noun

• The judge showed favor for the defendant.
• I've learned to be grateful for small favors.
• She's willing to help you but only as a favor to me.
• He's trying to earn the boss's favor by working late.
• Small boxes of candy were given out as favors at the wedding.
• I drove her to the airport because I owed her a favor.
• Don't do me any favors. I don't need your help.
• The students naturally showed favor toward their own school's team.
• If the weather’s not in your favor, that gets tricky fast.
  — Allie Garfinkle, Fortune, 2 Apr. 2024
• There’s a lot of the universe working in our favor on them days.
  — Carl Lamarre, Billboard, 2 Apr. 2024
• And the backlash marked a turning point in PiS’s favor with the public.
  — Rob Picheta, CNN, 11 Apr. 2024
• But Meghan Markle has shown us how to make an all-gray look work in our favor.
  — Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 24 Feb. 2024
• In March, a judge ruled in their favor and ordered the city to clear the encampments.
  — Gary Warth, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 July 2023
• The Barracuda are still trying to make the AHL playoffs, but the math isn’t in the team’s favor.
  — Curtis Pashelka, The Mercury News, 4 Mar. 2024
• In the episode, the judge had ruled in his favor, and Westfall was ordered to pay him $2,500 in damages.
  — Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 8 Aug. 2023
• What does a loaf of bread say to a friend after doing them a favor?
  — Zoe Denenberg, Southern Living, 7 June 2023
• Well, as those things go, this one works in a latke maker’s favor.
  — Bonnie S. Benwick, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
• Just do yourself a favor—save it for until the sun goes down.
  — Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 2 Mar. 2024
• With that in mind, these best walleye lures should help up the odds of a full livewell in your favor this season.
  — David A. Rose, Field & Stream, 20 Mar. 2024
• Trump’s lawyers argue this same clause works in their favor.
  — David G. Savage, Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2024
• The way Almodóvar has it, the only reason for Jake to spare the kid is as a favor to his old flame.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 17 May 2023
• Andie: Save 30 percent sitewide and take up to 65 percent off sale styles at the swimwear brand Mindy Kaling favors.
  — Claire Harmeyer, Peoplemag, 30 Aug. 2023
• Now that stocks and bonds are on the up, those options contracts have fallen out of favor.
  — Eric Wallerstein, WSJ, 3 Nov. 2023
• Do everyone a favor and just put it in your locker (with the sound off, please).
  — Christa Sgobba, SELF, 2 Jan. 2024
• In the union’s favor is the current strong demand for cars and trucks, and near-record prices for new vehicles.
  — Chris Isidore, CNN, 11 Sep. 2023
• Still, Gerri manages to tip the scales in her own favor anyway.
  — Ashley Fetters Maloy, Anchorage Daily News, 27 May 2023
• Oliver has a chance to do Felix a favor—his lordship is late for class, and his bike has a flat.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 18 Nov. 2023
• In its favor, the state has lined up a slate of mammoth projects that could come close to making a clean grid by 2030, if not get all the way there.
  — Sabrina Shankman, BostonGlobe.com, 13 May 2023
• The joke led to many, many, many articles and forum posts about the restaurant’s name, which tipped the SEO scales in its favor.
  — Mia Sato, The Verge, 26 Oct. 2023
• For now, the uncertainty in the trajectory of mortgage rates is working in favor of home shoppers like Shelby Rogozhnikov and her husband, Anton.
  — Alex Veiga, Quartz, 11 Apr. 2024

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favor

2 of 2 verb

• Her father favored the idea of her going to law school.
• The teacher clearly favors you.
• They won the championship last year, and most forecasters favor them to win again this year.
• Most voters favor these tax cuts.
• Those two schools are favored again to reach the final.
  — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2023
• Traders say the money that is coming in has favored bonds and less-volatile stocks.
  — Jack Pitcher, WSJ, 11 June 2023
• There is no cult of the leader of the kind Fascist systems favored.
  — Roger Cohen Nanna Heitmann, New York Times, 6 Aug. 2023
• Meghan isn’t the only one to favor this purse style lately.
  — Taylor Jean Stephan, Peoplemag, 23 Nov. 2023
• But the market is evolving in ways that may not favor Tesla.
  — Neal E. Boudette, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2024
• The Commanders are only favored in one more game for the rest of the season, and this spread is 4.5 points higher.
  — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 2 Sep. 2023
• In the December poll, he was favored over Abbas by 40 points.
  — Loveday Morris, Washington Post, 27 Feb. 2024
• Were there one, SDSU would likely be favored by 30-plus points.
  — Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Sep. 2023
• Whatever comes to mind is the very thing that's likely to be blessed and highly favored in August.
  — Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 Oct. 2023
• El Niño winters favor a storm track along the southern tier of the US, increasing the chances for storms to push off the coast and become potent, snowy nor’easters.
  — Mary Gilbert, CNN, 2 Feb. 2024
• Outposts favoring Donut Palace emerge in the Southwest.
  — Alyssa Fowers, Washington Post, 2 June 2023
• Success can come in so many forms, and you have been highly favored in your finances and on the personal front.
  — Essence, 11 Dec. 2023
• Hot, just like the top prize, so whoever wins this award could offer a real clue as to which show is favored to win the night’s last award.
  — Ben Zauzmer, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 June 2023
• The Metro said the route along Gould’s property is favored by residents, based on a phone survey.
  — Rachel Uranga, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2023
• That said, Democrats remain favored just because of how blue New Jersey is.
  — Geoffrey Skelley, ABC News, 6 Nov. 2023
• Baseball, depending on which side of the final score a team is on, can favor the lucky and punish the unlucky.
  — Shawn McFarland, Dallas News, 11 June 2023
• Never mind love: Could good will and favor, the root of gratitude, be bestowed from slave to master?
  — Imani Perry Janina Edwards Krish Seenivasan Devin Murphy, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2024
• The most notable lies are that PBMs favor the lowest-cost drug and are guardians of fiscal discipline.
  — Robert Popovian, National Review, 23 Feb. 2024
• The war in Ukraine will rumble on exactly as if the language on the war had not been tweaked to favor the Russian position.
  — Walter Russell Mead, WSJ, 11 Sep. 2023
• Other states that favor more liberal access to stem cells have haven’t gone as far as Utah.
  — Bymeredith Wadman, science.org, 1 Apr. 2024
• This week, the Jets are favored at home against a turnover-prone team and should be able to feed him early and often, setting him up for a bounce-back performance.
  — Eddie Brown, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Dec. 2023
• Here’s why so many pastry chefs and bakers favor this technique.
  — Shilpa Uskokovic, Bon Appétit, 8 Dec. 2023
• For example, black-legged ticks, commonly called the deer tick, favor those warm and moist areas on the human body like under the breasts and arms.
  — Alyssa Hui, Verywell Health, 16 July 2023
• Democrats are slightly favored to keep the seat that Sen. Debbie Stabenow is leaving open in retiring.
  — Geoffrey Skelley, ABC News, 2 Feb. 2024
• But a coalition of the center is more likely to reach an outcome most Americans favor.
  — Nicholas Gordon, Fortune, 30 May 2023
• Ultimately, though, the judges favored Flay's potatoes.
  — Jessica Rodriguez, Journal Sentinel, 15 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024