BIASED in a Sentence

Learn BIASED from example sentences, some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

For BIASED, below is one of 26 sentences:
Because the judge played golf regularly with the district attorney's father, we feared he might be biased in the prosecution's favor.

Free Online Vocabulary Test
K12, SAT, GRE, IELTS, TOEFL
 Input your word:
Want to search a word in classic works?
Search Classic Quotes
 Meanings and Examples of BIASED
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
biased
 a.  favoring one person or side over another; prejudiced
Classic Sentence:
1  On the contrary, the knowing that there was such a provision for me probably did bias me.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
2  I was afraid of the bias of those worldly maxims, which she has been too much used to hear.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
3  He had suspected his agent of some underhand dealing; of meaning to bias him against the deserving; and he had determined to go himself, and thoroughly investigate the merits of the case.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
4  de la Tremouille--a Protestant, and seeing the king seldom--was of no party, he did not, in general, carry any bias into his social relations.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 6 HIS MAJESTY KING LOUIS XIII
Example Sentence: (22 in 2 pages)
1  Fate was strongly biased against him.
2  He seemed a bit biased against women in my opinion.
3  You can't help being biased so you may as well be up front about it.
4  Liverpool only lost the game because the referee was biased.
5  My ignorance biased me against popular music.
6  Many parents are biased against popular music.
7  Because the judge played golf regularly with the district attorney's father, we feared he might be biased in the prosecution's favor.
8  Some institutions still have a strong bias against women.
9  Given data which are free from bias there are further snares to avoid in statistical work.
10  Employers must consider all candidates impartially and without bias.
11  The Department has a strong bias towards neuroscience.
12  The study set out to examine bias in television news coverage.
13  The government has accused the media of bias.
14  The lawyer made a tearful plea to bias the jury.
15  The newspaper has a clear bias towards the Conservative Party.