Example sentences for: penchant

How can you use “penchant” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • This penchant for Toffleresque gimmickry finally gets the better of him in the chapter titled "The Golden Arches Theory of Conflict Prevention."

  • Too many modern artists have a penchant for leaning over backwards to tease critics, but forget all about I'homme moyen sensuel who, more often than not, likes his pictures in comics.

  • The Jerusalem Post said, in an aquatic metaphor, that Netanyahu seems to "have a penchant for steering for the worst part of each rapid, and that escaping each does not mean that he has survived unscathed.

  • On a plane, he meets Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt), a cryptic hipster with a penchant for subversive acts both large (he makes high-priced soaps from liposuctioned human fat) and small (he splices frames from porn flicks into kiddie movies).

  • Now, as for Hollywood's penchant for releasing the "classy" movies as close to Oscar time as the rules and the calendar allow, I agree that the ravages of memory have a lot to do with it.


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