Favours is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Favours meaning
plural of favour
Using Favours
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of favour
- In the example corpus, favours often appears in combinations such as: favours the, no favours, that favours.
Context around Favours
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 8 middle, 8 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 0 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Favours
- In this selection, "favours" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 22.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, offering, arrangement, factor, fubara, abe and foreign stand out and add context to how "favours" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and always favours the teams and anybody any favours. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "favours" sits close to words such as acidic, adamu and attributable, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with favours
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Mayor Peter Chirico also favours the PDB approach. (8 words)
He favours landscape and figurative work accenting light and dark. (10 words)
But Pochettino switched sides as he favours a more centralised position. (11 words)
Despite being one of the most iconic automotive brands in the world, a new survey is unlikely to find any favours among Land Rover buyers for naming them as having the lowest IQ rating in the United Kingdom based on their choice of vehicle brand. (45 words)
Neither Ayling nor Kristensen did themselves any favours as Premier League relegation edged closer last season and the opportunity for Drameh to start with a clean slate under a new head coach at a familiar level might just work in his favour. (42 words)
Fate favours the benevolent and so it was that a series of small miracles enabled the Sthalekars- father Haren and English-born mother Sue- to obtain a passport for the baby in a matter of days. (36 words)
It’s in our hands, don’t need any favours from any one, best position to be! (17 words)
Example sentences (20)
He visited York as part of a project to travel the world by offering favours for an upcoming book, ‘Around The World In 80 Favours’.
While the riverine arrangement favours Fubara who is from Opobo and Cole, who hails from the Kalabari extraction, the senatorial district factor favours Abe.
As we sat down to dinner, we found wedding favours in the form of literal favours.
But Pochettino switched sides as he favours a more centralised position.
But transporters argued that DPU is similar to the Delivered Duty Unpaid (DDU) system that they earlier protested as it also favours foreign transporters.
Despite being one of the most iconic automotive brands in the world, a new survey is unlikely to find any favours among Land Rover buyers for naming them as having the lowest IQ rating in the United Kingdom based on their choice of vehicle brand.
Fate favours the benevolent and so it was that a series of small miracles enabled the Sthalekars- father Haren and English-born mother Sue- to obtain a passport for the baby in a matter of days.
Federal minister of mental health and addictions Carolyn Bennett on Monday called the move "a monumental shift in drug policy that favours fostering trusting and supportive relationships in health and social services over further criminalisation".
Head Coach Jussi Ahokas told CityNews 570 that his club didn’t do themselves any favours.
He favours landscape and figurative work accenting light and dark.
He would record the videos without their knowledge and later blackmail them seeking sexual favours.
His physicality and raw power are criminally underused and it's not been a surprise to see Hojund cut an increasingly frustrated figure because his teammates have been doing him no favours.
It's been said for generations that fortune favours the bold.
It’s in our hands, don’t need any favours from any one, best position to be!
It sits right next to the soon-to-open new Laithwaite Park football hub and, in its current state, will do the state-of-the-art complex no favours.
Like the EC, the police must be told that they are not doing anybody any favours.
Manchester United are flying at the moment but a tricky tie against Barcelona on Thursday will have done them no favours.
Mayor Peter Chirico also favours the PDB approach.
Mother Rugby looks after her own, and always favours the teams that play the game the way it was meant to be played.
Neither Ayling nor Kristensen did themselves any favours as Premier League relegation edged closer last season and the opportunity for Drameh to start with a clean slate under a new head coach at a familiar level might just work in his favour.
Common combinations with favours
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- favours the 20×
- no favours 19×
- that favours 15×
- sexual favours 15×
- any favours 14×
- favours from 9×
- favours for 7×
- he favours 7×
- favours to 6×
- favours and 6×