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Example sentences for: penchant

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

On one page he is charged with listening to music analytically, in keeping with his general penchant to dominate, and on the next with barely keeping from having an erection listening to the songs of Hugo Wolf.
He saw that New Hampshire, with its open primary and penchant for mavericks, was more favorable terrain.
The media mocked her outsized clothes budget, her downsized tank tops, her affairs, her various dysfunctions, her penchant for New Age cures.
Accounts of Helprin's penchant for amusing or self-aggrandizing exaggeration are legendary in the literary world.
Both men are noted risk-takers and cutting-edge improvisers whose penchant for the maniacal makes them ideal partners" (Karl Stark, the Philadelphia Inquirer ). Gene Seymour writes in Newsday that "there's a sense of play between the two that's almost kinda sweet.