Likelier in a sentence

But to reach the speakership, he also agreed not to interfere in future Republican primaries, even if it meant boosting candidates that he thought were likelier to win a general election than right-wing rivals.

Donors who were reluctant to go after an incumbent mayor will be likelier to get off the sidelines in the runoff, Broy predicted.

He was filming his Disney+ docuseries Limitless when he found out he is 'between eight and 10 times' likelier to develop Alzheimer's than the general population.

However, he believes Apple is likelier to launch a more powerful — and expensive — iPhone model.

Liverpool are hopeful of completing a move for RB Leipzig’s Dominik Szoboszlai, with a deal looking much likelier than in recent days.

Potter was probably unwise wise to omit Badiashile from the squad, but the decision felt inevitable and was perhaps made above his head: more expensive and glamorous options were always likelier to get the nod.

The more that happens, the likelier it is that Richardson will be getting all the first-team reps by the time the fall rolls around.

While rates varied across the studies, US, Slovakian, and Italian research found people who drank alcohol and energy drinks were six times likelier to get into a physical fight compared to drinkers who abstained from them.

YouGov found that U.S. consumers were likelier to abandon their shopping carts than the United Kingdom.

A that with ocean temperatures rising, hurricanes in the Atlantic have become likelier to grow into a major storm within just 24 hours.

Customers who feel understood and valued are likelier to remain loyal to a brand.

In comparison, people in New Mexico are 2 ½ times likelier than Minnesotans to have seen a UFO, according to Enigma data.

Perhaps, but looking at the reporting from the New York Times and Politico — and adding my own experience observing Vance — I'd say the likelier explanation is that Vance thinks whining is a political strategy.

We account for Democrats or Republicans being likelier to respond, of course, but in hindsight it was the only indicator in the data that was a possible warning sign that the polls could be off.

A Sanders nomination might make the public even likelier to view Mr. Trump as a favorite; Democrats, already pessimistic, are starting to hear skepticism from their own leaders about Mr. Sanders’s chances.

He’s an adequate gap blocker who’s far likelier to stalemate or than drive an opponent at the point of attack when tasked with a one on one.

I think the scary outcomes that we are talking about are likelier than a plane crash.

Morris Lewis, a health care consultant in Caldwell, New Jersey, said his neighbors growing up in Mississippi and Georgia were likelier to identify his family as Jewish than with the non-Jewish neighbors whose ancestors had arrived from the same countries.

State health officials argued that a concert was more dangerous because it was likelier to attract out-of-state visitors and soon issued a cease-and-desist order.

The sound can be interpreted in two ways: sighs that “the world stopped,” or, the likelier option, new breaths taken as BTS embraces “Be”-ing in this new reality.