Synonyms

1. advantageous
2. favorable

Sentence Examples

1. During the day she kept along the coast, where the currents were favourable the coast, irregular in profile, and visible sometimes across the clearings, was at most five miles distant.
2. Fogg proposed to leave her with Passepartout at Fort Kearney, the servant taking upon himself to escort her to Europe by a better route and under more favourable conditions.
3. Late in the day they passed through the capricious channels of Hong Kong, and the Tankadere, impelled by favourable winds, conducted herself admirably.
4. The first few days of the voyage passed prosperously, amid favourable weather and propitious winds, and they soon came in sight of the great Andaman, the principal of the islands in the Bay of Bengal, with its picturesque Saddle Peak, two thousand four hundred feet high, looming above the waters.
5. On the 4th, however, the sea became more calm, and the storm lessened its violence the wind veered southward, and was once more favourable.
6. She had a hundred and sixty-eight hours in which to reach Bombay, and the sea was favourable, the wind being in the north-west, and all sails aiding the engine.
7. The wind was favourable, being fresh, and blowing from the west.
8. But as I know that it is a mark of prudence not to do by foul means what may be done by fair, I will ask these gentlemen, the guards and commissary, to be so good as to release you and let you go in peace, as there will be no lack of others to serve the king under more favourable circumstances for it seems to me a hard case to make slaves of those whom God and nature have made free.
9. It was a favourable change, and the Tankadere again bounded forward on this mountainous sea, though the waves crossed each other, and imparted shocks and counter-shocks which would have crushed a craft less solidly built.
10. The journey from New York to San Francisco consumed, formerly, under the most favourable conditions, at least six months.