Use favorable in a sentence
Sentences ending with favorable
- The examination of the sacrifices this morning was favorable. [10]
- And, in fact, the last letter he had received from Mack's army informed him of a victory and stated strategically the position of the army was very favorable. [2]
- From the signs on yonder tablet it is scarcely possible that their answer should be otherwise than favorable. [10]
- She did not hesitate to intimate her views on the character of this Celebrity, and her views were not favorable. [9]
Short sentences using favorable
- I have a favorable presentiment! [2]
More example sentences with the word favorable in them
- I recommend to your favorable consideration the subject of an international telegraph across the Atlantic Ocean, and also of a telegraph between this capital and the national forts along the Atlantic seaboard and the Gulf of Mexico. [7]
- I said, "Don't you do it; you come to New England on a favorable spring day. [5]
- Jason told me yesterday evening that our uncle Alciphron had wooed you for his son Leonax, and was sure of finding a favorable reception from old Semestre and your poor father. [10]
- The old woman would not be likely to have another such favorable opportunity of supplicating the all-powerful man who stood before her, without the hindrance of witnesses, to exercise his magnaminity and clemency towards her son. [10]
- The heavy-jowled man with shallow cerebrum has only to incline his head so that the lying instrument can select a favorable focus, to appear in the picture with the brow of a sage and the chin of a poet. [4]
- Sometimes a favorable wind sprang up, and we hoisted the sail. [9]
- These, no doubt, were to ride round the morass, and ford the river at a favorable spot so as to attack the vessel from the west, while the others tried to reach it from the east with the aid of the palm-trunks. [10]
- None of them were favorable to the plans of Mr. Worthington and Mr. Duncan. [9]
- How often do we spoil our best chances by following an urgent instinct to arrive at certainty as early as possible, and by not being strong enough to postpone opening our business till a favorable moment offers. [10]
- He knew the ways of every domestic animal, and such sounds were only uttered by a little pig that felt comfortably fat, and lived under favorable circumstances. [10]
- But this mood was no more favorable than the other for beginning a new life, nor did there seem to be, as he went along, any need of it. [4]
- This same condition was equally favorable for the operations of any professional experimenter who would use the flame of religious excitement to light the torch of an earthly passion. [6]
- The climate of Victoria is favorable to other great industries--among others, wheat-growing and the making of wine. [5]
- I have been very anxious for some days in regard to our armies in the field, but am considerably cheered, just now, by favorable news from them. [7]
- Having ended the usual formalities, he told how favorable his dreams were, and that he had called them together to know if they would accompany him in a war excursion. [5]
- He had only two pupils in attendance, and I did not get a very favorable impression of this high school. [4]
- It is not true that Mr. Clay's bill prevents the passage of one more favorable to us of the new States. [7]
- It was better to put up quietly with his disappointment; and, if he could get no favorable opportunity that evening to resume his conversation at the interesting point where he left it off, he would call the next day and bring matters to a conclusion. [6]
- It enables him to get a favorable outlook out of statistics which might add up differently with other mathematicians. [5]
- Macrinus here tried to excuse the spy, by remarking that this zealous official had only tried to set his services in a favorable light. [10]
- It varies with the years, and occasionally the balance is favorable, as in 1879, when the expenditure was L 63,400,000 and the revenue was L 64,400,000. [4]
- This, not for the present profit, further than as concerns my family, but as a favorable influence usable on the Other Side, where there are some who are not friendly to me. [5]
- A letter at the opening of a book may be only a footpath, leading the curious to a favorable point of observation, and then leaving them to wander as they will. [4]
- The overpowering of the little garrison in the storehouse of Pithom had occurred under specially favorable circumstances, which could hardly be expected to happen again, so the original plan must be changed, and an attempt made to take a circuit around the fortifications. [10]
- Though favorable to the idea of a new play, he declared this one did not present his old Sellers at all, but a lunatic. [5]
- I recommend to the favorable consideration of Congress the interests of the District of Columbia. [7]
- The Parson says that woman is always most restless under the most favorable conditions, and that there is no state in which she is really happy except that of change. [4]
- I cannot regret that we--you, I should say--are soon to migrate to a more favored region, and carry on your work as teachers and as learners in ampler halls and under far more favorable conditions. [6]
- The publisher wrote that the verdict of the readers was favorable, and he would venture on it, though he cautioned Mr. Burnett not to expect a great commercial success. [4]
- So it happens that the latter produces active, practical men, and, under favorable circumstances, great scholars, but few artists and poets. [10]
- He was pleased that his books should receive favorable notices by men whose opinion he respected, but he was not grieved by adverse expressions. [5]
- For some minutes she stood watching and listening for a favorable moment for crossing the court-yard. [10]
- I have never seen a devotional attitude so deceptive, or one that produced less favorable results. [4]
- I have just seen a despatch of Grant, of 11 P.M., May 23, on the North Anna and partly across it, which ends as follows: "Everything looks exceedingly favorable for us. [7]
- The wind and sea were equally favorable to both galleys; but the Venetians outstripped the Spaniards and dropped anchor at Alicante twenty-four hours before the latter. [10]
- But we, I say, who loved her, and knew so well the noble possibilities of her royal nature under circumstances favorable to its development, felt more and more her departure from her own ideals. [4]
- Again, Philip had said not long since that there could be no peace for him within reach of Paula: here was a favorable opportunity for escape without attracting remark, and at the same time for doing a work of the truest charity. [10]
- The most compassionate Russian commanders, those favorable to the French--and even the Frenchmen in the Russian service--could do nothing for the prisoners. [2]
- Venters raised his rifle, ready to take snap shots, and waited for favorable opportunity when Bells was out of line with the forward horses. [13]
- Macrinus had no reason to expect a favorable reception when he entered the tablinum, but his great purpose upheld his courage. [10]
- We are the publishers of A. D. Richardson's works, and flatter ourselves that we can give an author as favorable terms and do as full justice to his productions as any other house in the country. [5]
- If he should prevent our seizing his communications, and move toward Richmond, I would press closely to him, fight him if a favorable opportunity should present, and at least try to beat him to Richmond on the inside track. [7]
- So far as possible, the people everywhere shall have that sense of perfect security which is most favorable to calm thought and reflection. [7]
- It is often possible, also, under extraordinarily favorable conditions, to select a company congenial and varied and harmonious enough to dine together successfully. [4]
- Before spring the people of Missouri will probably be in no favorable mood to renew for next year the troubles which have so much afflicted and impoverished them during this. [7]
- He sat down on the sofa, and he said-- 'I'm a-going to make a little proposition to you, and if it strikes you favorable, it'll be a middling good thing for both of us. [5]
- He got one of his feet froze, and lost money, too, becuz old Robbins took a favorable turn and got well. [5]
- The school is now more full and complete than at any former period, and in every respect entitled to the favorable consideration of Congress. [7]
- When we have nothing to read and nothing to eat, it will be a favorable moment to offer a compromise. [6]
- Here are many nooks and hidden corners to dream in and make love in, the soft sea air being favorable to that soft-hearted occupation. [4]
- In Alexandria the news of the nomination of the "sham Eros" to be the Emperor's successor was hailed with joy, and the citizens availed themselves gladly of his fresh and favorable opportunity to hold one festival after another. [10]
- His attitude was most favorable to correct conclusions. [7]
- It was now late in the autumn, and the trees were pretty nearly stripped of their leaves.--There was no place so favorable as the Common for the study of the heavens. [6]
- The rider gave Jane a favorable report of cattle and horses; and as he took the seat to which she invited him, little Fay edged as much as half an inch nearer. [13]
- Under favorable circumstances it snows at least once in every single month in the year, in the little town of Mono. [5]
- The main thing is to create a favorable atmosphere and avoid discussion. [4]
- Lastly, medication without insuring favorable hygienic conditions is like amputation without ligatures. [3]
- If you persist in your refusal, you and your people will have no part in the favorable conditions that I am prepared to grant to these, your allies. [10]
- The Bishop-he told his brother--had desired his immediate presence, to be congratulated on his victory; his first duty was to obey that mandate, and he should at once avail himself of its favorable opportunity to obtain for his deceased parent the honor he had earned. [10]
- And left to himself, even in such a favorable environment as America, he is slow to change. [4]
- If we secure him we shall have a favorable report by the committee, and it will be a great thing to be able to state that fact quietly where it will do good. [5]
- He motioned that he understood her, and at eight o'clock the next morning was kneeling by her side at mass, where he took advantage of a favorable opportunity to whisper: "Beautiful Carmen! [10]
- His labors, as he believed, had secured the favorable issue of the great case so long pending. [6]
- Shall men who have taken no care, who conjecture, some of whom speak of twenty miles an hour, be believed against those who have had such a favorable and well improved opportunity? [7]
- Your evil star has approached your favorable constellation so nearly, that a mere novice in astrology could see some serious danger was at hand. [10]
- In the former half of the nineteenth century its population was largely given up to the pursuit of agriculture, though not under altogether favorable conditions. [4]
- Augmented interest is given to this subject by the actual commencement of work upon the Pacific Railroad, under auspices so favorable to rapid progress and completion. [7]
- I awoke, and found myself lying with my head out of the bed and "sagging" downward considerably--a position favorable to dreaming dreams with morals in them, maybe, but not poetry. [5]
- There were machines for threshing, for straw-cutting, for apple-paring, and generally such a display of implements as would give one a favorable idea of Bavarian agriculture. [4]
- Accordingly he called for them, and on the way he told them all about Pudd'nhead Wilson, in order that they might get a favorable impression of him in advance and be prepared to like him. [5]
- Men professing respect for public opinion, and acknowledged to be leaders of the party, have avowed in the halls of legislation that the change in the judiciary was intended to produce political results favorable to their party and party friends. [7]
- The campaign, at first favorable to the Turks, was inconclusive, and towards winter the Bashaw retired to Buda. [4]
- Before it was finished he wrote: "I have lost confidence in the favorable disposition of my countrymen, and look forward to cold scrutiny and stern criticism, and this is a line of writing in which I have not hitherto ascertained my own powers. [4]
- I did not find these favorable to landscape views, and just as I was turning my horse back again I caught sight of a commotion some distance to my right. [9]
- On his return, feeling in pretty good spirits, as the prospects looked favorable, he went to make a call at The Poplars. [6]
- All this is favorable to the highest commercial activity and enterprise. [4]
- All this was favorable to King, and it relieved Irene from an embarrassment she might have felt in meeting him under ordinary circumstances. [4]
- It was a favorable time for doing so, for there happened to be a man confined there, a circumstance which seemed to increase the keeper's feeling of responsibility in his office. [4]
- This scheme succeeded--the favorable impression was achieved. [5]
- This had a favorable effect on him and restored the confidence and courage he had lost. [10]
- At the first favorable chance I drew Herdegen apart. [10]
- And your stalwart father, who stands there defying the rain, certainly does not look like a vision, and this storm is not favorable to philosophizing. [10]
- It was not exactly a favorable time for young men to enter upon the practice of this profession. [4]
- The inveterate logical errors to which physicians have always been subject are chiefly these: The mode of inference per enumerationem simplicem, in scholastic phrase; that is, counting only their favorable cases. [3]
- I found the effect of going out every morning was decidedly favorable on her health. [6]
- Something might more easily be won from him through words, by taking advantage of a favorable moment. [10]
- I hope, my dear sir, you will find it convenient as well as agreeable to give me a favorable answer, with the signature of Mrs. Valeer, as well as yourself. [5]
- It was a country of ridges, depressions, rocks, ditches, moraines of mining-tailings--not even as favorable for cavalry work as Laing's Nek had been in the former disastrous days. [5]
- How he should communicate his intentions to get a favorable reply, he was at a loss to know; he knew not whether to address Esq. [5]
- On the topmost cliffs of the jagged crown of the giant mountain--the most favorable spots for a look-out far and wide--they placed sentinels, who day and night scanned the distance, so as to give a warning-signal in case of approaching clanger. [10]
- Meantime a favorable change of public opinion has occurred. [7]
- Myrtle Hazard must become her guest, and then if circumstances were favorable, he was certain obtaining her aid in his project. [6]
- But the chances are still in our favor to meet and defeat the enemy on the Rappahannock, if we can effect a crossing in a position where we can meet the enemy on favorable or even equal terms. [7]
- These favorable results are in part owing to the cessation of mail service in the insurrectionary States and in part to a careful review of all expenditures in that department in the interest of economy. [7]
- Considering the strength and opposite interest of the old States, the wonder is that they ever permitted one to pass so favorable as Mr. Clay's. [7]
- Both in city and country, the evolution of the physical harmonies which make music to our eyes requires a combination of favorable circumstances, of which alternations of unburdened tranquillity with intervals of varied excitement of mind and body are among the most important. [6]
- Very favorable relations also continue to be maintained with Turkey, Morocco, China, and Japan. [7]
- His wife had already given her favorable opinion of her former guest. [6]
- By an hour after sunset the sacrifice of a bull in the great court of the Serapeum was consummated, and the Moscosphragist announced that the god had graciously accepted it--the examination of the entrails showed more favorable indications than it had the day before. [10]
- It does not admit of doubt that important commercial advantages might be secured by favorable treaties with them. [7]
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