6 sentences with 'favourite'
Example sentences and phrases with the word favourite and other words derived from it.
• « Unfortunately for the monks of Europe, silver was most often used for sacred objects in the monasteries, making the monasteries the favourite targets of the Viking raiders. »
• « It is safe to assume that many more rulers have consulted The Prince for ideas on how to maintain their power over the years than one of Machiavelli's favourite moralistic treatises during his lifetime. »
• « Those generals in particular clung to their favourite, old-fashioned tactics, sending cavalry in shining uniforms to their deaths in desperate charges, ordering offensives that were doomed to fail, and calling up all available soldiers in reserve. »
• « Under Hitler's leadership, the party was renamed the National Socialist German Workers' Party ("Nazi" derives from the German word for "national"), and adopted the swastika, long a favourite of racist pseudo-historians searching for the ancient roots of the fabricated "Aryan" race, as its symbol. »
• « Wherever he went, Nobel worked to make innovations in his favourite field of study: explosives. »
• « You know you've reached middle age when you remember the moment when your favourite acting couple starts singing, rather than the scene where they go to bed. »