partial to

idiom

: liking something or someone very much and usually more than other things or people

I like all the food here, but I'm particularly partial to the fried chicken.

She's partial to tall men with dark hair.

I'm not partial to red wine.

Examples of partial to in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Winner winner chicken dinner—this month you readers were partial to poultry, as chicken made up a whopping five of the 10 recipes. —

Nina Moskowitz, Bon Appétit, 25 Apr. 2024 Both are effective, but podiatrists are partial to manual abrasion, which tends to be gentler and more suitable for at-home treatments. —

Lacey Muinos, Verywell Health, 24 Apr. 2024 But Wintour has been partial to giving Kardashian a showcase at the gala over the past 10 years. —

Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 19 Apr. 2024 Monarch caterpillars are partial to milkweed While the Very Hungry Caterpillar may have eaten everything in sight, monarch caterpillars are a bit picky. —

Julia Gomez, USA TODAY, 12 Mar. 2024 Though the Kardashian family seems to be partial to shredding in Aspen, the snow-loving fam have also been spotted on ski trips around the world in the past, including Jackson Hole, Wyoming, and Deer valley, Utah. —

Gillian Telling, Peoplemag, 1 Feb. 2024 While the whole eclipse (partial to full to end) lasts a few hours, totality (the moment on truth) only lasts between 3-4 minutes. —

Eric Henderson, CBS News, 6 Apr. 2024 Their teacher, though, was partial to another musician in the class: a young pianist named Yvonne Loriod. —

Joshua Barone, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2024 There may be no film that awards voters are more partial to than a biographical drama about a Great Man of History. —

Kyle Buchanan, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2024

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