How to Use preferential in a Sentence

preferential

adjective

• That warmth will be the key to the film’s awards fortunes: This is the kind of agreeable contender that should play well on the preferential ballot.
  — Vulture, 27 Oct. 2023
• Her preferential treatment — a result of the burgeoning crush the foreman has on her — is the subject of gossip in the back.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 May 2022
• Now, thanks to the preferential ballot, the top prize is awarded on the basis of Most Likable — and there’s no question what the most likable movie in this race was.
  — Vulture, 13 Mar. 2023
• The preferential pickup area at Sky Harbor is not known yet.
  — Michael Salerno, The Arizona Republic, 8 June 2023
• The last thing Cardinal Zen wants is a deal that gives him preferential treatment.
  — William McGurn, WSJ, 19 Sep. 2022
• The preferential treatment has been granted to 35 people, some famous and some not, for months.
  — David Meyer, Fortune, 29 Mar. 2023
• Tickets for preferential parking and missing license plates were high on the list, as well.
  — Cari Spencer, Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2023
• This isn't the first time the Proud Boys have received preferential treatment from a police department.
  — Will Carless, USA TODAY, 6 Jan. 2023
• Myles Garrett preferential treatment and were focused only on getting him to the Hall of Fame.
  — Tom Withers, ajc, 6 Jan. 2023
• For best picture, the member is invited to list up to five films in preferential order.
  — Clayton Davis, Variety, 12 Mar. 2023
• One of the main reasons is that society has set the standards of beauty, and those who conform to the ideal get preferential treatment.
  — Goldie Chan, Forbes, 5 May 2023
• And as soon as the data are clean, Mexican researchers will have free and preferential access to it for a period of two years.
  — Emiliano Rodríguez Mega, STAT, 12 Aug. 2022
• The bill suspending Russia’s preferential trade status passed by a vote of 420-3.
  — Kevin Freking, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Apr. 2022
• This isn’t the first time United Airlines has been accused of preferential treatment on team charters.
  — Melissa Noel, Essence, 2 Nov. 2023
• The preferential ballot is many things to Oscar viewers.
  — Ben Zauzmer, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Mar. 2022
• That's due to four decades of tax cuts for the rich, as well as preferential treatment for capital gains, such as the profits made from sales of stocks and bonds, which are taxed at a lower rate than income.
  — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 29 Mar. 2022
• Following that email, Huang says he was told that there was no preferential treatment for Alameda.
  — Elizabeth Lopatto, The Verge, 6 Oct. 2023
• The tricky part is that the Oscars use a preferential ballot, which asks voters to rank the 10 nominees and tends to produce a winner that consistently shows up in the No. 1 and No. 2 slots.
  — New York Times, 24 Mar. 2022
• Under the new rules, Google wouldn't be able to give preferential placement to its own travel listings or restaurant reviews.
  — Brian Fung and Clare Duffy, CNN, 29 Mar. 2022
• These actors are not seeking any form of preferential treatment in casting calls.
  — Diego Ramos Bechara, Variety, 18 Mar. 2024
• Both films scored noms for their directing and screenplay and have passionate followers sure to place them in the top slot on preferential ballots.
  — Jenelle Riley, Variety, 16 Mar. 2022
• Teams 5-8 get homes games, but the conference champions do not get preferential treatment after the top four seeds are handed out.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 5 Dec. 2022
• Others point to an astonishing tweet by the referees union a year ago as proof the Lakers get preferential treatment.
  — Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2024
• Shields asked about the gender and racial breakdown of the stops in order to determine whether certain groups were receiving preferential treatment.
  — Jamie Thompson, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2023
• For decades, Cubans who migrated to the United States enjoyed preferential treatment.
  — New York Times, 3 May 2022
• Britain’s Serious Fraud Office charged a unit of the company with seven counts of bribery in connection to payments of $24 million for preferential access to oil in Africa.
  — Dave Michaels, WSJ, 24 May 2022
• The court found that during this time, Black farmers were denied loans and benefits while white farmers received preferential treatment in the allotment of funds.
  — Arkansas Online, 24 Oct. 2022
• At a minimum, the carceral system must stop its preferential use of Vivitrol.
  — Maia Szalavitz, Scientific American, 13 Sep. 2023
• In this new iteration of the office, executives will still get preferential access to a space.
  — Bypaolo Confino, Fortune, 22 Sep. 2022
• The money was used to secure preferential access to bigger cargoes and more valuable grades of oil as well as preferred delivery dates, the SFO said earlier his year.
  — Anna Cooban, CNN, 3 Nov. 2022

Last Updated: 3 May 2024