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How to use preferring in a sentence

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Unlike William, he had never had a steady girlfriend, preferring instead to play the field.
It's too subtle for that, preferring to transpose space and time to introduce us to real and believable characters.
Jonah was a good batsman, which made up for his lack of ability with the bat, preferring to field at mid-off.
I never really take any shoes myself preferring trainers as these are more suitable for the types of nights out you have in these places.
They spurn soya shepherd's pie and nut cutlets, preferring the more exotic polenta with wild mushrooms or Thai stir-fry.
Letwin and Howard are more cautious, preferring targeted cuts in areas such as inheritance tax and stamp duty.
I have long been in a minority of one among my friends in preferring the Flat to National Hunt.
Blacksmith are plankton feeders preferring zooplankton, including copepods, and the eggs and larvae of other marine organisms.
Often doctors and patients don't trust generic medications, preferring the brand name drugs.
The Spanish press comments that she rarely wears jewels, preferring showy costume earrings, necklaces and trinkets.
He trusts fewer and fewer goons henchmen ministers, preferring unelected brown-nosers.
After counselling, she declined the insertion of an intrauterine contraceptive device, preferring the progestogen only regimen.
Beetles are frequently associated with poultry feed, preferring grain and cereal products that are damp, moldy and slightly out of condition.
He doesn't use a plectrum, preferring to stroke out bass notes with his thumb.
It lives in arid and semi-arid areas with little vegetation, preferring highlands and rocky landscapes.
Being alive is a very intense experience, we all shy away from it preferring an ambulatory twilight sleep.
Unlike most South Africans, he is not fond of beer, preferring cider, which is not sold here.
He eschews the uniform of the boardroom boss, preferring sports jackets and casual boots to the traditional Savile Row suit and handmade brogues.
Morphinists can take regular meals, preferring well flavored and sour articles, such as curry, pickles, etc.
I also curse my lack of preparedness, preferring in my slipshod diva manner to leave all decorating and shopping to the last minute.
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Examples from Classical Literature
No chapel was erected within its enclosure, the Guild preferring to be incorporated with the adjoining parish of Allhallows.
La Signorina did not reply, preferring to hold her tongue, lest it overthrow her.
It showed him strong and cold and untempted, preferring famine and neglect and misery to any debt or burden of a service done.
And now I will give my reasons for preferring the clinker-built cedar boat, or canoe, to any other.
The croquette first given is dry when fried, and even the second form is somewhat so, many preferring them so.
The preferring of Apollo and his instruments to Marsyas and his instruments is not at all strange, I said.
He did not attempt to defend himself, however, preferring to turn the quarrel into a joke.
It was not a fashionable place, but even among the pleasant people there, the girls made few friends, preferring to live for one another.
Van, 68, is renowned for his truculence preferring to let his music do the talking and only rarely gives interviews.
Fouquet rejected her offers with indignation, preferring the esteem of the king to complicity with such intriguers.
I only say,' he resumed, addressing me, 'that I disapprove of your preferring such company as Mistress Peggotty, and that it is to be abandoned.
Now, the coxswain's hesitation seemed to be unnatural, and as for the notion of his preferring wine to brandy, I entirely disbelieved it.
They grow in groups in damp places, preferring hemlock trees.
Yet is incensed against her for preferring her own relations to him.
Am I wrong in preferring the cornet to any other wind instrument?
Although both translators make use of rhyming couplets of decasyllabic lines, Wayne makes no use of enjambment, preferring every line to be end-stopped.
Indifferent to the weather, and even preferring it to better weather for its clearance of the streets, the man looked about him with a scrutinizing glance.
She finds it distressing that he is willing to spend only a short time with his wife Xanthippe and his children, preferring to die in the company of his male friends.
Those alternatives are despotism and slavishness, ruling others as though they were slaves or living like a slave by preferring pleasure and wealth to what is truly good.
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