How to use favour in a sentence
40 example sentences · noun, verb
Favour means british standard spelling of favor. Example: “I need a favour. Could you lend me £5 until tomorrow, please?”
Examples of favour by meaning
nounBritish standard spelling of favor.
- I need a favour. Could you lend me £5 until tomorrow, please?
- Can you do me a favour and drop these letters in the post box?
- Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia.2013 June 29, “Unspontaneous combustion”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 29
verbBritish standard spelling of favor.
- Love and the driver favoured the company with a brief chanty running.1921, Ben Travers, chapter 5, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC
- Clacton and Walton are resorts mostly favoured by Londoners and only three trains run through to the Midlands and North.1959 April, B. Perren, “The Essex Coast Branches of the Great Eastern Line”, in Trains Illustrated, page 191
- He was wearing a hard hat of the low round kind favoured by hunting men, and with it a black duffle-coat lined with white.1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 6, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC
More sentences with favour
- I need to keep in with the neighbours in case I ever need a favour from them.From the entry in
- Recent polling has showed that 40% are in favour of the candidate.From the entry showed
- You can load the dice in your favour by researching the company before your interview.From the entry load
- The wording of the ballot paper loaded the vote in favour of the Conservative candidate.From the entry load
- The 'bold' tag has been deprecated in favour of the 'strong' tag.From the entry deprecate
- This time I'll cover for you, but now you owe me a favour.From the entry owe
- Could you possibly do me a favour and pass me that newspaper?From the entry do me a favour
- You expect me to clean up all this mess for you? Do me a favour.From the entry do me a favour
- A marriage favour is a bunch or knot of white ribbons or white flowers worn at a wedding.From the entry favor
- This new system favours the consumer over the producer.From the entry consumer
- An expert in the self-inflicted wound, his attacks frequently miss their target in favour of reminding you of his own failings.From the entry self-inflicted
- The judge made his decision without fear or favour.From the entry without fear or favour
- Jones retired in favour of Smith.From the entry retire
- Out went conversation in favour of fast and more immediate pleasures.2025 May 31, Jo Ellison, “The beguiling charm of a bedtime phone call”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times…. From the entry streak
- Yet Mrs Allen found much favour with the décor of the new vehicles.2024 March 20, Greg Morse, “XP64: the train the ^([sic]) [that] launched a new style”, in RAIL, number 1005, page 47. From the entry immeasurably
- The rural north-west of Ireland is not favoured economically, with outmigration still a problem.2024 December 11, Robin Leleux, “Awards reward restored railway survivors”, in RAIL, number 1024, page 53. From the entry outmigration
- Like most parents, mine too were not in favour of me joining the industry."2023 February 26, Madhuvanti S. Krishnan, “Vidya Balan: scripting her way out of getting typecast in Bollywood”, in The Hindu. From the entry TamBrahm
- “We know about the favours you asked of her and now she is dead.2018, James Moffett, An Element of Deceit: A Sherlock Holmes Case. From the entry mutton shunter
- Its definition is not single layered since one could argue in favour of all the cases.2017, Anna Bogic, “Anthony Burgess in French Translation: Still ‘as Queer as a Clockwork Orange’”, in Marc Jeannin, editor, Anthony…. From the entry nadsat
- It would be great to see who the refs favour if Rubentus play Uefalona in the CL.2017 March 10, Diabolik, “Juve - TTFKATSP [R]”, in rec.sport.soccer (Usenet). From the entry UEFAlona
- Many practices have long since become unnecessary or fallen from favour.2014, Vivian Lin, James Smith, Sally Fawkes, with Priscilla Robinson and Sandy Gifford, “Health in Australia Today: Health Status, the…. From the entry bounty
- Doomsayers predicted that consumers and advertisers would abandon pay-television en masse in favour of online alternatives.2013 August 17, “Pennies streaming from heaven”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8849. From the entry fast
- I would imagine the bookmakers would favour Liverpool but every dog has its day."2012 August 11, “Europa League: Hearts delight at Liverpool tie”, in Independent, UK, retrieved 13 Jul 2015. From the entry every dog has its day
- However, the argument in favour of a back-announcement puts listener information above programme pace.2012, Robert McLeish, Radio Production, page 112. From the entry back-announcement
- Huntford accuses Scott of choosing manhaul as his favoured method of travel purely to be macho.2012, Captain R. F. Scott, The Last Expedition. From the entry manhaul
- Modern practice favours warming the massecuite in pug mills, placed above the centrifugals.2011, H. Panda, The Complete Book on Sugarcane Processing and By-Products of Molasses. From the entry massecuite
- The red eye, Psaltoda moerens, is sometimes common around Sydney where its favoured host, Angophora costata, grows.2010 September, M. S. Moulds, “Three Noisy Sydney Insects – the Cicadas”, in Daniel Lunney, Pat Hutchings, Dieter Hochuli, editors, The…. From the entry red-eye
- He added: “That is why I'm in favour of manned, or should I say ‘personed’, space flight.”2010 August 9, Stephen Hawking, quotee, “Stephen Hawking: mankind must colonise space or die out”, in The Guardian. From the entry personed
- Why the rigmarole of a military survey before enacting a measure most Americans already favoured?2010 October 14, “An own goal on gay rights”, in The Economist. From the entry overlearn
- Edwardianism was thought to favour continuity and tradition, but the fiction often belies this.2008, C. Etherington-Wright, Gender, Professions and Discourse. From the entry Edwardianism
- Fortune favoured the fortunate when Martin Atkinson ignored a stonewall penalty.2007 February 19, Martin Smith, “Fabregas factor helps Blackburn”, in The Daily Telegraph, London, archived from the original on 15 May 2011. From the entry stonewall
- Palaiologan art favoured tall, robust figures wrapped in garments that revealed the body underneath.2007, Carol M. Richardson, Locating Renaissance Art, →ISBN, page 198. From the entry Palaiologan
- Rattle certainly did Elgar no favours by eliminating him entirely from his 20th Century series.2003 August 24, deac...@yahoo.com, “ELGAR Symphony No.2 - GSOTC?”, in rec.music.classical.recordings (Usenet), retrieved 03 May 2022. From the entry snobism
- Advocacy means influencing Policy in favour of the poor and powerless.2003, Joel S. G. R. Bhose, NGOs and Rural Development: Theory and Practice, page viii. From the entry misfavour
Meaning of favour
- noun British standard spelling of favor.
Questions about favour in a sentence
- How do you use favour in a sentence?
- Favour is used as a noun and verb. For example: “I need a favour. Could you lend me £5 until tomorrow, please?”
- What is a short sentence with favour?
- “Jones retired in favour of Smith.”
- What does favour mean?
- Favour means british standard spelling of favor.
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