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Example sentences for: penchant

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If you missed McCain's awful joke, . This describes McCain's penchant for apologies.
He saw that New Hampshire, with its open primary and penchant for mavericks, was more favorable terrain.
Most any personal frailty--be it a penchant for Celtic harp music, Oriental poetry, even moderate environmental sentiments--could be overlooked if a body isn't afraid of work.
So one knee-jerk reaction begets another, and our peculiar penchant for verbal infanticide—or infantile verbicide—continues.
What is most striking about The Life of Nelson A. Rockefeller: Worlds to Conquer 1908-1958 (the first of a projected two volumes), though, is that this duality--the push to achieve wed to a penchant for flamboyant failure; the ability to win a passionate following yet alienate the people who could keep him in power--was evident well before he thought about running for public office.