Example Sentences

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Woods said he was preferring to play alone.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 4, 2022

There was never any evidence that she was preferring one cub over the other.

From Washington Post • Aug. 28, 2015

And, upon Joseph's representing to him that he was preferring the younger, he replied to him with admirable resolution: "I know it well, my son; but Ephraim will increase more than Manasseh."

From Pascal's Pensées by Pascal, Blaise

She turned toward the salottino, remotely wondering by what chance Estelle was preferring it to the favorite red and green sitting-room upstairs.

From Aurora the Magnificent by Brownell, Gertrude Hall

What a valorous knight this one was, preferring death to shame and the vituperation of the other knights!

From The White Knight: Tirant Lo Blanc by Rudder, Robert S.