Example sentences for: proclivities

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

  • Some Clinton defenders argue that the voters knew about the president's alleged proclivities, if they didn't know the details of any particular case, and implicitly accepted them when they elected him twice.

  • In addition to its coverage of the Flowers affair (reportedly confirmed in a deposition by Clinton last month), it also revealed the toe-sucking proclivities of former Clinton adviser Dick Morris.

  • The selection of such words is likely to be personal, reflecting the tastes and proclivities of the compiler, hence one is hard put to quarrel with the choices.

  • Pro- and anti-gay polemicists debate the sexual proclivities of Jar Jar Binks and Abe Lincoln.

  • Those of conservative or center-right proclivities characteristically look at America's past through the eyes of Alexis de Tocqueville, the French aristocrat who toured the fledgling United States in the 1830s, gathering observations and ideas that were, in due course, published in Democracy in America . Tocqueville's opus has become one of the modern world's most influential political ethnographies--that is, a set of densely descriptive observations of another nation, written to influence political debates back in one's own country.


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