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How to use penchant in a sentence

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Politicians have a penchant for going round the houses when answering tough questions.
Yet beneath his seeming penchant for disorganization was a determination to see that the important goals were achieved.
In fact, he's a snappy dresser, with a penchant for Paul Smith suits and shirts, so his slippers would probably be hand-embroidered velvet.
A penchant for sentences with multiple negatives is one of the things that make jury instructions notoriously hard to understand.
His penchant for tall, rakish women and strong, musclebound men is alive and well and still living in New York.
But Henry has a penchant for gopher balls, and his history reveals that if he is overused, his results drop.
But they also had a penchant for niggling and appeared very adept at winning penalties for laying on by effectively holding the tackler on top.
We thought he was a great big fat squeaky-voiced cricketer with a tiresome penchant for laddish behaviour.
He began his political career as a Marxist with a penchant for sending his followers to beat up rival groups.
The penchant for late night-long drives has come as a boon for pushcart vendors selling a variety of ice-creams.
History in Edinburgh has a peculiar penchant for throwing together people, politics and passion.
An esteemed veteran actor with a penchant for the unpredictable arrived and sat under a painting of fairies in a field.
It is poignant without being preachy, invested with subtleties when the penchant in the past would have been to go overboard.
The pictures show a country with a truly biased curriculum and a penchant for martyrdom.
Alexander begins the film as a socially awkward scientist, bumbling and sweet, with a penchant for pocket watches and professorish vested suits.
Randall, with his silly-looking mullet and penchant for pyramid-scheme businesses, bumbles along with barely a clue.
I mean to say that he doesn't have the cavalier attitude and penchant for gallows humour that a lot of his colleagues do.
The overall effect puts the penchant on this side of the Atlantic for furry dice and tree-shaped car fresheners in some kind of context.
He also has a penchant for catchy one-liners, ideally suited to television.
Since Bangaloreans have a penchant for good theatre, a stage production of the popular musical should be good news to theatregoers.
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Examples from Classical Literature
If he have a penchant for outdoor life, then the32 choice, in a way, is easy.
The man has a penchant for short and nervous sentences, but they are never jerky.
It had come to be an accepted joke with them, that penchant of Piney's for Italy.
Tony, you must know, has developed an almost uncontrollable penchant for sheathing his pigsticker in my carcass once more.
Ling Chu on the contrary had a penchant for buses and seemed to enjoy them.
The heroic penchant lay snugly latent in his heart, unchecked and unmodified.
What a penchant all our honest detectives have for gems, and where do they get them?
The first piece, the composer explains, emulated Schubert's penchant for hastily writing duets for parties and was entitled Little Mushroom.
Stocky and mustachioed, Idriss hails from the central province of Homs and has at times shown a penchant for fiery rhetoric.
Indeed, sometimes the author's penchant for journalese gets rather out of hand.
Anno domini, combined with a penchant for good food and equally good wine has taken its toll on what was never the lithest of physical forms.
Occasionally this penchant for pronouns only adds to the reader's discomfort, as Quin abruptly switches subjects and thoughts.
It doesn't hesitate to glorify a human's penchant for primitiveness either.
Apparently Mademoiselle Violet combined a taste for philanthropy with her penchant for Islington dancing halls.
Yes, basketball superstar Dennis Rodman has a penchant for wearing nail polish, makeup, and ladies' undies.
Retail promiscuity is rife, an outcome of the food industry's penchant for promotional activity as the mechanism to protect gross margins while stimulating demand.
It's not the first time RiRi has noted her penchant for wacky baccy.
It's not the first time Ri has noted her penchant for waccy baccy.
Helping him in his quest is his friend Barney, a confirmed bachelor with endless, sometimes outrageous opinions, a penchant for suits and a foolproof way to meet women.
It's not that we white men are intentionally doing anything wrong, but we do have a penchant for obliviousness about the way we are beneficiaries of systematic unfairness.
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