PARTIAL in a Sentence

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These market price moves are reverses, but only partial reverses, of the shifts that happened when the conflict started last week.

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 Meanings and Examples of PARTIAL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
partial
 a.  incomplete; fragmentary; favoring one person or side over another or others
Classic Sentence: (86 in 6 pages)
1  His visit afforded her but a very partial satisfaction, while his own enjoyment in it appeared so imperfect.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 18
2  And she an't over partial to having scholars on the premises," Joe continued, "and in partickler would not be over partial to my being a scholar, for fear as I might rise.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VII
3  You see,' said Mr. Peggotty, 'knowing as you was partial to a little relish with your wittles when you was along with us, we took the liberty.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 7. MY 'FIRST HALF' AT SALEM HOUSE
4  Mr. Dick was very partial to gingerbread.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 17. SOMEBODY TURNS UP
5  But Em'ly had took notice of her, and had gone and spoke to her; and as the young woman was partial to the children herself, they had soon made friends.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 51. THE BEGINNING OF A LONGER JOURNEY
6  I know mothers are partial, but.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 20
7  Often, looking at them, she would make every possible effort to persuade herself that she was mistaken, that she as a mother was partial to her children.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 7
8  Letters may, of course, be a partial confirmation; but detection in the fact there must be of the most direct kind, that is, by eyewitnesses.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: Chapter 5
9  To Caroline's assertion of her brother's being partial to Miss Darcy she paid no credit.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24
10  My father, however, is partial to Mr. Wickham.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 26
11  Of neither Darcy nor Wickham could she think without feeling she had been blind, partial, prejudiced, absurd.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 36
12  The difference between him and the others forced me to be less partial.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
13  My friend Reldresal, principal secretary for private affairs, is, in my opinion, if I am not partial, the second after the treasurer; the rest of the great officers are much upon a par.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER III.
14  As a sister, so partial and so angry, and so little scrupulous of what she said, and in another light so triumphant and secure, she was in every way an object of painful alarm.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
15  'It was the partial disclosure of your secrets,' replied Mr. Brownlow.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
Example Sentence: (18 in 2 pages)
1  I reached out to him in the dark, still in a partial drowse in fact, thinking, Why did she wake up her mate?
2  It grows 3 to 5 feet high and wide in moist soil and partial shade and blooms white from June to September.
3  These market price moves are reverses, but only partial reverses, of the shifts that happened when the conflict started last week.
4  The couple say their mortgage servicer, CitiMortgage, reported to the credit bureaus that they made partial payments that were delinquent.
5  The back-packers found partial shelter from the storm by huddling against the concave wall of the cliff.
6  In this issue we have published only a partial list of contributors because we lack space to acknowledge everyone.
7  We also provide traditional and conventional partial and full shipload cargo service, for example for individual projects or bulk hauling.
8  He's partial to sporty women with blue eyes.
9  The research project was only a partial success.
10  I could give it only partial support.
11  Her partially clothed body was found in woods nearby.
12  He was partially paralysed by the fall.
13  The operation was only partially successful.
14  The parent bird partially digests food in its crop.
15  The current rise in employment can therefore be at least partially attributed to the Bush tax cuts of several years ago.