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    Use "preferred" in a sentence

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    preferred


    1. “I think I preferred you as an untameable stallion


    2. A certain level of snails is preferred over complete elimination


    3. It's a tea actually, its name translates as 'rubber tea' but she preferred to think of it as coffee


    4. I preferred it that way


    5. Usually the work of Interpol agents was conducted in anonymity and most of his colleagues preferred this


    6. He preferred the coward’s way


    7. Smith preferred those thought-shapes that pleased,


    8. Smith preferred to consider a thought from a familiar set of view points, rolling


    9. For the time being, I preferred to content myself with that explanation


    10. Whilst agents working across could always fall back on the Migraine Association, it was preferred by the Errdian powers that be that such a course of action was literally the last to be used under any circumstances

    11. Smith preferred those thought-shapes that pleased, that scratched the cosmic itch most effectively, and so He expressed thought in a set of patterned, reactive ways


    12. Smith preferred to consider a thought from a familiar set of view points, rolling it across the heavens like thunder, looking at all those aspects of silence and darkness that reinforced the heavens as imagined by a responsible God


    13. Yet again, Kara felt the impact of the massive divide between her culture and that of Earth – something the exploration of the seaside resort had highlighted; the sheer volume of … words failed her … stuff that was on sale in the shops … most of it completely superfluous … badly made, cheap (in every meaning of the word) ornaments of no practical use whatsoever and precious little artistic merit, deliberately manufactured to clutter up somebody’s home … and then there was the food and drink on offer! Everywhere she’d looked there had been foodstuffs on sale and people eating … battered fish, hot savoury smelling sausages, the tart scent of vinegar on chips fresh from the fryers … and ices of every conceivable flavour … and those unbelievable sweets in all shapes and sizes … and, according to Iain, this particular seaside resort was a relatively small one … by the time Iain turned off the motorway at the Taunton interchange, she had concluded that although it had been fun visiting, really, when it came down to it, she preferred her own world


    14. Alfred preferred a fairly representational universe where you actually had to move your personification to the instruments rather than just overlaying them on your personal space


    15. She helped him towards a chair by the table, but he preferred the bar stool at the counter


    16. Sadly, he drove me through a door I preferred to keep closed


    17. I preferred to lay under my towel within the safety of the shore, enjoying an ice cream and watching my uncle struggle with his wet suit before he curved into the sea like a dolphin only to reappear sometime later and regale me with stories of seals, gentle basking sharks, forests of stunning pink corals and walls of bright coloured jewel anemones he said he saw on his dives


    18. Kirk tried to show the lady into the living room, but she said she preferred to do these things in the kitchen


    19. Clearly the wasteg is the preferred mode of transport for those who live near it - having experienced the trackways, I can understand why


    20. Others may think you’re getting preferred treatment if you end up dating the boss

    21. Gilla didn’t know why his marriage failed … could it be because his wife preferred someone else? I can’t see Berndt wandering … he’s not the sort


    22. To be honest, he preferred to watch the big match on the television on a Saturday night if he could stay awake long enough


    23. The talk turned to the various sweets we used to eat as children; it seems Gary had a thing about liquorice bootlaces (typical boy!) whereas I preferred mint imperials


    24. She also knew that Lucy would be out at a friend’s house until nine o’clock, leaving her at home all alone, alone with Alan, who was at an age when he still preferred a set of headphones in his bedroom to the embarrassing company of his father in the pub, no matter that his father would pay for the beer


    25. He tried to respond to his wife and step-daughter, but apart from the odd brief conversation he preferred to occupy his time with work, well away from the sounds of the radio


    26. Kelvin knew she preferred to model her screens as an old fashioned monitor, but she preferred to keep her screens in the air to making the old plastic case appear when she was out of her office


    27. He preferred to think of his outer layers of fat as


    28. despite the occasional bout of nannying, preferred to leave the


    29. He preferred it that way and


    30. on a social basis, that it soon became clear that he preferred money

    31. preferred to do these things in the kitchen


    32. what style would work best? Dry, factual statements are not my preferred style


    33. alone with Alan, who was at an age when he still preferred a set of


    34. conversation he preferred to occupy his time with work, well away


    35. who almost never walked but preferred to transport themselves on


    36. “The girls tried to let it be known that they preferred their privacy,


    37. probably because Brunno preferred shaking his head repeatedly instead of


    38. Tom piloted the car skilfully along his preferred route


    39. Roman much preferred it this way


    40. Now she preferred the bedroom

    41. Her pink linen business suit, but she doubted Beth would choose it, Beth preferred Blue


    42. Human blood must have been preferred over that of their own kind, especially in


    43. But I think he and Thomas would have preferred a


    44. Either way, Alec preferred it when the mage was happy, even missed seeing the flashing teeth light up his face


    45. In Virginia and Maryland, the cultivation of tobacco is preferred, as most profitable, to that of corn


    46. After the attack on the American Embassy, their new leader, or the Chief, as he now preferred to be addressed, had finally forced the mob into some semblance of order


    47. But the whole quantity of poultry which the farm in this manner produces without expense, must always be much smaller than the whole quantity of butcher's meat which is reared upon it; and in times of wealth and luxury, what is rare, with only nearly equal merit, is always preferred to what is common


    48. because they preferred the old and verified method of


    49. He would have preferred if he was asked, but would have helped any way he could


    50. More than once, the other Guardians had to pull her away from the battle, keep her from charging into the thick of things where she preferred to pound her enemies to death with nothing but her fists














































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    Synonyms for "preferred"

    preferable preferred best-loved favored favorite favourite pet preferent improved superior

    "preferred" definitions

    more desirable than another


    preferred above all others and treated with partiality