warm to

phrasal verb

warmed to; warming to; warms to

: to begin to feel affection for (someone)

She quickly warmed to her guests.

: to begin to be interested in or excited about (something)

It took them a while to warm to the idea.

Examples of warm to in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Biden, as vice president, was the rare establishment Democrat who was warm to Sanders during the senator’s first presidential bid. —

Seung Min Kim, Fortune, 7 May 2024 Typically around this time of the year, Dallas-Fort Worth flip flops from warm to cool days. —

Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 May 2024 Some in the agency were warm to the administration’s plan to move into a new West Dade office complex as the proposal took shape last summer. —

Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 7 May 2024 To viewers who had finally warmed to the wide, whooshing brushwork of de Kooning and the Abstract Expressionists, Stella’s canvases represented a direct assault on gestural painting, implying that expressionism and even human suffering had lost their allure as subjects for art. —

Deborah Solomon, New York Times, 5 May 2024 Opt for warm to cool water when rinsing out your psoriasis shampoo, as this will be a lot less irritating. —

Daley Quinn, Verywell Health, 3 May 2024 Plant it in full sun once the soil temperature has warmed to 70˚F, and water enough to keep the soil from drying out. —

Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 17 Apr. 2024 The orchestra has warmed to new scores increasingly quickly. —

Joshua Barone, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2024 That really heats a phone up, and the S24 Ultra was quite warm to the touch by the end of my gaming session. —

Allison Johnson, The Verge, 22 Mar. 2024

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