Example sentences for: preferable

How can you use “preferable” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The main point they expressed was that, while not legally precise, "innocent" was preferable because it doesn't run the risk of libel that "not guilty" does if the "not" is inadvertently dropped.

  • I think "state-sponsored" gambling is preferable to none at all--just as state-owned liquor stores are a lot better than Prohibition.

  • From a database and computational perspective, structured annotations are preferable because they facilitate searches and automated data processing (see below).

  • ("A period of Russian domination, while undesirable, is preferable to continued [American] involvement in that unhappy area."

  • Sociologist Pierre van den Berghe argues that such a continuum is preferable to a simple black-white dichotomy.


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