Penchant in a sentence

A diplomat who spoke on condition of anonymity, confirmed that the ministry has a penchant for such behaviour.

And no doubt Xi Jinping’s increasing penchant for military khaki is purely about fashion.

Arthur is the ringleader and wants to trick people; Martin, the follower with a penchant for baked beans.

At the beginning of Season 3, Joe, after moving to the suburbs with his wife Love () and their newborn son Henry, soon discovers that his penchant for inappropriate relationships and violence isn’t solved by marital bliss.

Bakewell is shy, but super quick, with a penchant for rearranging his cage.

Bonnie also tries to play wing-woman to Diana, though given the former swimmer's penchant for directing the flow of the conversation towards her past achievements, this seldom works out.

Buckle up and get ready for a rollicking ride alongside a bandit family that consumes a LOT of sweets and has a penchant for madcap adventures!

But then such excitement and expectation has often been subdued by our penchant for more talk that has translated to less action on the ground.

But U.S. Rep. Jared Golden, a three-term Lewiston Democrat with a penchant for breaking with his party’s leaders, took to Substack recently to lay out his vision of how best to cope with what he says is a real and growing problem.

By the time the final whistle went, superior defending and a penchant for taking their chances saw Brixham leave the pitch as winners in what could have easily been mistaken as a 90-minute penalty shootout.

Dante embodies everything Dominic is not, and his penchant for extravagance leads him to make audacious moves to obliterate his adversary.

Everything on it has been chosen to complement the food or to amplify Lao cuisine’s penchant for fresh herbs and warm spices.

Given Catalyst’s penchant for reactive defenses, it’s important for players to know best areas for deploying her ferrofluid.

However, he also had a tumultuous side marked by a history of drug addiction, heavy drinking, and a penchant for colorful language.

However, the minimal CGI used to create its aerial scenes is unsurprising — with Tom Cruise leading the charge, Paramount went all-in on keeping up with the star and producer's penchant for realistic action scenes.

It seems only inevitable, given Del Toro's penchant for exploring monsters, that this adaptation would happen sooner or later, particularly given that he's long voiced his admiration for Mary Shelley's works over the years.

It turns out, a penchant for sweet and salty foods when we’re children may be hard-wired into our basic biology.

Keith's David is Frasier's nephew, now an adult and an awkward college freshman with a penchant for off-kilter observations.

Kevin Costner’s The Westactor, who has a penchant for all things old-timey, as he takes audiences on a journey of how the Wild West came to be and how decisions made in those days have left their mark on the United States as we know it today.

Putin has a penchant for disengaging and struggling to make decisions, especially when there are no good ones left to make.