Example sentences for: penchant

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

  • 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.

  • Top hat and tales ... about pop-star Slash and combining his oral memoirs with his penchant for fancy headwear.

  • Others criticize Dunne's penchant for name dropping and gossip mongering, particularly his boasts of having given Nancy Reagan and Elizabeth Taylor regular O.J. briefings.

  • Ever since Bill Clinton ran for president, pundits have puzzled over his penchant for self-destruction.

  • 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.


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